Alejandra Alarcon

Biography

ALEJANDRA ALARCON
Born in Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1976

EDUCATION
2009    Diploma Arts as Therapy Conaculta and “Universidad Autonoma de México”
           (UAM), Mexico DF
2008    Bachelor of Fine Arts, National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving
           “La Esmeralda”, INBA (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes), México City
2002    Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology, Universidad Mayor de San Simón (UMSS),
           Cochabamba, Bolivia


PROJECTS
2011 November – Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


SOLO EXHIBITIONS  
2011    “La distanzia adecuada”, un projecte residència-exposició de l’artista,
           dins el cicle Perspectivas Llatinomericanes. Galeria Sicart, Vilafranca del Penedès,
           Barcelona, Spain
2011    “Domèstico”,  espacio Simòn I Patino, Cochabamba, Bolivia
2010    “AMORTE”, Galeria Kiosko, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
2010    “True Love”,  Magrorocca, Milano Italy.
2009    “Fagia”, Sala Petita – Galeria SICART, Barcelona
2008    “El olor del Clan”, at Kiosko Galery, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
2007    “Caperucita la más roja”, at Centro Simón Patiño,
            Cochabamba - La Paz – Santa  Cruz, Bolivia.
2002    “Yocasta, Yo castro, Yo casta”, at La Casona de la Pascualita, Cochabamba, Bolivia.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010     CUADRO Artistas emergentes,  Polyforum Siquieros, Mèxico, D.F. Mèxico.
2010     CUADRO Artistas emergentes, Museo Reyes Mesa, Tamaulipas, México.
2010     MIA Art Fair, represented by Gallery Kiosko (Bolivia). Miami, United States.
2009     “Contextos”, Centro Simón I. Patiño. Cochabamba Bolivia.
2009     “El reverso del mundo”, at Metropolitan gallery, México D.F. México.
2009     “CUADRO / Guía & Salón de Artistas Emergentes”, "Estación
            Indianilla Centro Cultural", Mexico City
2009     “Versos de euforia, cosas invisibles”, Galeria Traeger & Pinto gallery, Mexico DF
2009     Alarcon, Gonzalez, Gremard Romero, Magrorocca, Milano Italy
2009     Pinta Art Fair New York represented by Kiosko gallery, New York , United States.
2009     CH.ACO feria de arte de Chile, represented by galería Kiosko Bolivia, Santiago Chile
2008     “Nokenofobia”, at Gallery Studio, México, D.F., Mexico
2008     “Compadres SIDERS IN / OUT”, at Casa de la Esquina MACO, Mexico, D.F.
2008     Bridge Art Fair in Miami, at Gallery 13, Miami, United States
2008     “Festival of Video Art Periscope”, in Caracas, Venezuela
2008     “Posibilities”, at Galery 13, Mexico, D.F., Mexico
2008     “Third Festival of independent Arts”, at Old Dormitory Monjas, Museo de San
            Idelfonso, Mexico, D.F., Mexico
2008     International Art Fair “La Otra”, at Kiosko Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
2008     Selection for the Bolivian “World One Minute’s” exhibitions in Beijing, China
2008     International Art Fair “ART BA”, at Kiosko Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2008     Itinerating Exhibition of  the First Video Multilateral Cultural Network Mercosur,
            Argentina, Montevideo, Uruguay
2007     “Art-Now”, at the National Museum of Art, La Paz, Bolivia
2007     “Resplandores (Splendor)”, analog and digital poetic, at the Recoleta Museum,
            Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007     International Workshop of Contemporary Art, Bolivia – Alemania, “El quinto
            pasajero”, at Tambo Quirquincho Museum, La Paz, Bolivia
2007     International Art Fair ART BA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007     “El acoso de las fantasías”, at Casino Metropolitano, México, D.F., México
2007     International Bienal of Visual Arts, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Cruz,
            Bolivia
2006     Festival “DEMO”, international artists, at Zitelle Center, Venice, Italy
2006     “Videos Bastardos (Bastard Videos)”, in the XX Festival of Art , Porto Alegre, Brazil
2006     “Better than Sex, better than Disneyland”, at Ramis Gallery, New York, United States
2006     “Video Variaciones”, selected by Douglas Rada, Perla Montelongo, Paulina Lasa, at
            Martadero, Cochabamba, Bolivia
2005     Still image, video and digital audio work, by students of the National School of
            Painting, Sculpture and Engraving “La Esmeralda”, at Insurgentes Mall, Mexico, D.F., Mexico
2005     First international meeting of artistic production in digital format, at the CNA
            (Centro Nacional de las Artes), “La Esmeralda”, Mexico, D.F., Mexico
2005     “Killing me softly”, at Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York, United States
2005     “Cartoons”, at Forum Gallery Shakespeare, Mexico, D.F., Mexico
2005     “INTER MEX”, drawings exhibition at Drama Gallery, Lima, Perú