Career
Apart from tattooing, his art involves embellishing found images and objects—for instance, dolls, old medical illustrations, and pictures in 1950s Mexican magazines—with macabre or tattoo-style designs. He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including Stolen Bike at the Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York, Los Dos Amigos at MACO in Mexico, Pin Up at Tate Modern and Pierced Hearts and True Love at The Drawing Center in New New York He is the son of the graphic artist Francisco Toledo and Elisa Ramirez Castañeda, a well known Mexican anthropologist and poet.
He is also the brother of Natalia Toledo (poet) and Laureana Toledo (artist).
In 2007, he co-produced the book Los Dos Amigos"with artist Abraham Cruzvillegas. In 2008 he participated in the "Goth: Reality of the Departed World" exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art, curated by Eriko Kimura.
Doctor Lakra is represented by kurimanzutto, Mexico City and Kate MacGarry, London. 2012 Mexican Demons and Dancing Skeletons, Holstebro Art Museum, Denmark
2011 Doctor Lakra, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey (MARCO) Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
2011 Doctor Lakra, Amparo Museum (museo Amparo), Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.
2010 Doctor Lakra, The Institute of Contemporary Art (International Cooperation Administration), Boston, Master of Arts
2009 Modern Ruins, Kate MacGarry
2009 Doctor Lakra, kurimanzutto
2006 Doctor Lakra, Kate MacGarry
2005 Los Dos Amigos, Doctor Lakra & Abraham Cruzvillegas, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO), Mexico
2003 Doctor Lakra, Kate MacGarry, London
1998 Doctor Lakra, Juárez 65, Mexico City, Mexico
1993 Doctor Lakra, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin
1991 Doctor Lakra, Café Primo, Berlin
1990 Doctor Lakra, Galería Caracas, Berlin
1989 Doctor Lakra, Galería El Juglar, Mexico City, Mexico.