Alejandra Abad
About
MFA, University of Colorado
Email: aabad1@fau.edu
Office: HE 1008G, Fort Lauderdale Campus
Areas of Expertise: Interdisciplinary Media Art Practices, Digital Media, Storytelling, The Moving Image, Video Art, Installation, Animation
Bio: Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Alejandra Abad is an interdisciplinary visual media artist and educator who explores belonging and mutual compassion as key parts of collective wellness. Through layering, abstraction, and light, she creates new landscapes that relate to place, family, and community.
Her style is informed by architectural studies at Թ, Film/Video/New Media/Animation at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Interdisciplinary Media Art Practices at The University of Colorado.
She uses analog and digital processes for the projection of moving images in public spaces which are rooted in her pedagogy of care. This has led to a series of works centered on environmental futures and the implication of the anthropocene. Her work connects the histories of anticolonial movements, international surrealism, and magical realism to her own experiences in new spaces.
Recent Publications/ Exhibitions/ Performances
2023 | Side Stories (Outdoor Film Festival in the RiNo Art District), Denver CO
2023 | Site-Specific Installation, Understudy, Denver CO
2022 | Animation, Silent Screen (curated by Beatie Wolfe), Denver CO
2022 | Projected Animation (onto Daniels & Fisher Tower), Denver CO
2021 | The Spirit Survives (Featured Artist), Denver Art Museum, Denver CO
2021 | Installation, PlatteForum, Denver CO
2021 | Installation, Pompano Beach Cultural Center, FL
2021-2023 | VIDA, Animation. Screenings: Meow Wolf, Supernova Digital Animation Festival, Buell Theater& Sie FilmCenter, ALC Video (Art Festival, Museo de Aguas Alicante, Spain), DenverArt Museum
2021-2023 | Un País Olvidado, Reliquias de Vigencia (Forgotten Country, Relics of Agency)
- Installation , CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO
- Installation , CO, Arbor Institute, Boulder, CO
- Installation, Out of Many, More: Voices of The Americas, CU Denver Experience Gallery, CO
2020-2023 | , Participatory Installation at Boulder Library, Boulder CO
Current Residencies & Memberships
Pompano Beach Arts
Board Member at
Press
2022 | , by África Prado
2021 | by Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post
2021 | by Jillian Blackwell, DARIA Magazine
2020 | , by Amy Hoagland
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