alejandro t. acierto
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© 2024 alejandro t. acierto
Lives and works in Detroit, MI
SELECTED *SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
*Elusive ones, Estrella Mountain Community College Galleries, Avondale, AZ
2023
The things that stayed (with Dan Paz), SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
2020
What lies beneath is already on the surface (with Allana Clarke), Langer over Dickie, Chicago, IL
2019
*the dead are not altogether powerless, Boundary, Chicago, IL
2018
*in the absence of sight, (SCENE) Metrospace at MSU Galleries, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
2017
*Breathing Room, Roman Susan, Chicago, IL
*the means by which we make an opening, THE SUB-MISSION/MISSION Projects, Chicago, IL
SELECTED RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Healing-Rethinking Gender, curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Northlight Gallery, Tempe, AZ
2023
Enmeshed Worlds, curated by Jodi McCoy, Carolla Arts Exhibition Center at Missouri State University, Springfield, MO
...displacing, curated by Chalet Comellas and Clinton Sleeper, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
2022
All that Glows in the Dark of Democracy, curated by Kasia Houlihan, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020
AFTER LIFE (we survive), curated by Thea Quiray Tagle, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Teachable Moment, curated by mike calway-fagan, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
Untied, curated by Allison Lacher and Jeff Robinson, University of Illinois-Springfield Visual Arts Gallery, Springfield, IL
2019
Ríos Intermitentes, organized by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons for Havana Biennial XIII, Matanzas, Cuba
Distance, curated by Betsy Alwin and Steve Locke, Dorsky Gallery, New York
2018
The Poetics of Relation, curated by Sheridan Tucker, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Chicago, IL
Kayumanggi: Post Colonial Filipinx, curated by Karlota I. Contreras-Koterbay, Tipton Gallery, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2017
One, curated by Justin Witte, Cleve Carney Gallery, Glen Elyn, IL
Subdivision, curated by Allison Lacher and Jeff Robinson, University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, IL
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2022
our proximities are tethered with time, Ammerman Center Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology, Connecticut College, New London, CT
2020
The Quarantine Concerts, curated by ESS Chicago, online
High Zero Festival of Experimental & Improvised Music, curated by Elastic Arts, online
2019
Global Adapter, organized by Ensemble Adapter, Radialsystem, Berlin, Germany
we continue to sustain ourselves, Elastro Series, Elastic Arts Foundation, Chicago, IL
2018
Transmit 3.x, Kaneko, Omaha, NE
new works for voice and circular inhalation, Resonant Bodies Festival, Chicago, IL
2017
from nothing, a process of making, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL
Transmit 3.x, Radical Networks Festival, New York City, NY
upon the horizon, a space of unknowing, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2024
To tongue-tie (co-curated with Paul Pinto), group exhibition, Brick Aux, Brooklyn, NY
There are new suns (co-curated with Jose Luis Benavides), program of performancees, Aguijón Theater, Chicago, IL
2022
this exists inside this frame but it also exists inside this other frame, group exhibition, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
2020
Deliberate Acts: Art & Incarceration, group exhibition, Space 204 at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
A Traitor’s Travels, solo exhibition by Ali Seradge, Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN
inappropo(sal), solo exhibition by Jessica Gatlin, Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN
2019
TAKE REFUGE, group exhibition, Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN
Rumors of Necessity, group exhibition, Tipton Gallery at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
Unsettling Time, group exhibition, Space 204 at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS, & PROGRAMS
2024
Archive Fellowship, Center for Craft, Asheville, NC
Critic in Residence, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
Ansel Adams Research Fellowship, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
2022
Artist in Residence, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
2020
Artist in Residence, Digital Artist Residency, online
Artist in Residence (with CQDELAB), ADDS DONNA, Chicago, IL & online
2018
Artist In Residence, LATITUDE, Chicago, IL
2016
Artist In Residence, Corner Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Center Program, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Field Trip/Field Guide/Field Notes Consortium Fellowship (UChicago, SAIC, UIC), Chicago, IL
EDUCATION
2014
Master of Fine Arts in New Media Arts
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Madison, ME
2010
Master of Music in Contemporary Performance
Manhattan School of Music, New York, NY
2008
Bachelor of Music in Composition and Clarinet Performance, minor in Asian American Studies
DePaul University, Chicago, IL