Alejandro Aguilera

Alejandro Aguilera

Born in 1964, Holguin, Cuba
Lives and works in Atlanta, USA


During the last ten years, my artistic work has been completely immersed in my experience as an immigrant something I consider to be a type of condition, which, in turn, facilitates a particular relationship with the world and the history of art. The artistic forms I have worked mostly on are assembled sculpture, installation and drawing, all seen as integral parts of a certain space. The ideas and themes that animate these forms come from and are directed towards that territory within modern and contemporary art where a strong influence of the so-called primitive cultures is still perceivable. The sources that nurture my work are mainly literary. The creative mechanism that I employ the most is improvisation. As one of my general motivations, I intend to expand upon the idea that artistic formsconstantly permeated by notions of religiousness, freedom and beautyare never historically definitive.

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Education

1990 Postgraduate fellowship, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, USA

1983-89 Master of Fine Arts, Instituto Superior de Arte [Higher Institute of Art], Havana, Cuba

1975-83 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Escuela de Arte (School of Art), Holguin, Cuba

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007 A Brief History of Usage, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, USA

2006 Forty Yards of Lines, Milledgeville College and State University, USA

2004 The Art of Making Art, Ty Stokes Gallery, Atlanta, USA
A.A Recent Work, Gallery Sklo, Atlanta, USA

2003 A.A. A Decade of Assemblages, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

2002 Artesanas del Sur, Contemporanea, Coconut-Grove Convention Center, Miami, USA
A.A. Obra reciente, Brickell Village Gallery and ALPHA International Galleries, Miami, USA
Objetos de uso, Ramis Barquet Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
Dibujos y arabescos, Jorge Murillo, Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico
Black Drawings, Atlanta International Airport Main Gallery, Atlanta, USA

2001 Micaela, ALPHA International Galleries, Miami, USA
Ornamentos, ALPHA International Galleries, Miami, U...