Alejandro Almanza

– casa wabi 2023

Community Project

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México

Guadalajara

His work focuses on creating sculptures, photography, video, public art, and installations that emphasize our affective ties with objects, through works that may seem unstable, immaterial questions the physical laws in which we live. Their structures seem subvert not only architectural and decorative hierarchies, but emotional and cultural ones, often involving the expectations and common sense of the viewer.

He studied the Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso (2005) and the Master of Fine Arts at Hunter College in New York City (2014). He has exhibited individually at the San Francisco Art Institute, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico, Zapopan Museum of Art, Arizona State University Museum, Stanley Rubin Center, Texas, College of Wooster Art Museum, Ohio, Art in General NY. Its work has been exhibited collectively at the 15th Istanbul Biennale, Dublin Contemporary, 6th Curitiba Biennial, Carrillo Gil Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Barrio and the Queens Museum of Art, Centro de las Artes en Monterrey and Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Colorado. He has participated in residency programs such as Skowhegan and Bemis Center. He has been awarded the Harker Award for Interdisciplinary Studies del San Francisco Art Institute, Ox-Bow, School of Art and Artists’ Residency Artist Fellowship, and was invited to be the International Randall Chair at Alfred NY University. He was recently selected for the Smithsonian Museum’s Artist Research Fellowship in Washington DC. His work has been documented by the ART 21 series. He is a member of the National System of Art Creators. Lives and works in the city of Guadalajara in Jalisco Mexico.
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