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 Florida Atlantic University, 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 | Beyond Sound Side Stories (Outdoor Film Festival in the RiNo Art District), Denver CO
2023 | The Drying West Site-Specific Installation, Understudy, Denver CO
2022 | All Creatures Animation, Silent Screen (curated by Beatie Wolfe), Denver CO
2022 | YARA Projected Animation (onto Daniels & Fisher Tower), Denver CO
2021 | UNTITLED The Spirit Survives (Featured Artist), Denver Art Museum, Denver CO
2021 | Heirlooms Installation, PlatteForum, Denver CO
2021 | Memoria y Mitos 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), UNTITLED Denver Art Museum
2021-2023 | Un País Olvidado, Reliquias de Vigencia (Forgotten Country, Relics of Agency)
- Installation I, CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO
- Installation II, CO, Arbor Institute, Boulder, CO
- Installation III, Out of Many, More: Voices of The Americas, CU Denver Experience Gallery, CO
2020-2023 | Our Wishes , Participatory Installation at Boulder Library, Boulder CO
Current Residencies & Memberships
AiR Artist in Residence, Pompano Beach Arts
Board Member at Denver Digerati
Press
2022 | El videoarte sale a la calle en Alicante, ALC Videoart Festival inicia las proyecciones en dos pantallas fuera de los museos y en el MACA , by África Prado
2021 | As the pandemic winds down, Denver galleries gear up There’s a lot of good art to get excited about by Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post
2021 | Artist Profile: Alejandra Abad, Taking Art Out of the Exhibition Space and Into Her Communities by Jillian Blackwell, DARIA Magazine
2020 | Environmental Futures Conversations , by Amy Hoagland
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