Alejandro Sala

Alex Sala is an Adelaide Hills-based artist with a multifaceted formation as an architect, architectural illustrator, and educator. His training and practice include over 40 years of experience in architectural illustration and photography.

Architecture representation, having my passion in the mid-70s. I enjoy representing architecture, urban spaces, and scenes of daily life through sketches, paintings, and a variety of representational techniques.

A distinctive figurative language grew from a deeply personal journey rooted in a lifelong devotion to visual representation — my passion spanning architecture, drawing, and painting since the late 1970s. Alex's work is known for his photorealistic perspectives and building illustrations from the 1970s to the 1980s, particularly his meticulous architectural drawings. Alex has been profoundly shaped by the work of Helmut Jacoby and the hyperrealist movement. His visual language reflects a wide versatility in technique and style, growing over time, working across fountain pen, graphite, watercolour, acrylic, tempera, airbrush, and mixed media on paper.

His practice is grounded in the expressive power of representation, where drawing, painting, photography, and architecture converge as ...

VISUAL ART
Istituto d’Arte di Urbino - Scholarship.
Allgemeine Gewerbeschule School of Art, Basel, Switzerland

ARCHITECTURE
PhD Attended the École Nationale Supérieure d'architecture, Paris-Belleville

Degree in Architettura Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV)

Architectural Studies, UBA University, School of Architecture & Urbanism, Buenos Aires

ART EXHIBITION

SOLO EXHIBITION

2026 | WATERCOLOR & DRAFTS, ART EXHIBITION - 231 Hutt ST.Adelaide Coffee & Croissant Adelaide - (SA)

2025-26 | SUMMER ART EXHIBITION, A.SALA DRAWINGS - 231 Hutt ST.Adelaide Coffee & Croissant Adelaide - (SA)
GROUP EXHIBITION

2025 | COLOUR AND GEOMETRY - West Torrens Art Prize 2025 —Shortlisted- City of West Torrens. Adelaide (SA)

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 | 40 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY -Adelaide Camera Expo, Central Market, Adelaide (SA)
2025 | TYPOLOGIE- VENICE - South Australia living Artist (SALA), Hutt St 231, Adelaide, Australia
2022 | URBAN EXPRESSIONS - Cultural Centre La Medusa, Este, (Pd) Italy.
2022 | TOWNSCAPE- DETROIT- Athesis Museum Veneto of Photography BFI, Rovigo, Italy.
2019 | PATAGONIA UNKNOWN. Art Gallery at Consulate of Argentina, New York, USA
2019 | MY PATAGONIA. Athesis Museum Veneto of Photography BFI, Rovigo, Italy.
2019 | MY PATAGONIA. Athesis Photography Gallery, Rovigo, Italy.
2018 | MY PATAGONIA REVISITED. ”l'Obiettivo" Municipality Department of Culture of Dolo city, Dolo, Italy.
2018 | MY PATAGONIA REVISITED. Photo Club, Cavarzere- FIAF-, Daniellato Palace, Cavarzere, Italy.
2018 | SOCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY IN ARGENTINA. The Paths of Memory, Za...