Jessica Alazraki

Jessica Alazraki was born and raised in Mexico City, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in communication from Universidad Anáhuac. Since 1998, she’s been based in New York City. She also holds a diploma in graphic design from Parsons School of Design and a certificate in drawing and painting from the New York Academy of Art. Jessica has exhibited her work in four solo exhibitions in the United States and in over 50 group exhibitions in both Mexico and the United States. In 2018, she received the Award of Excellence from the Huntington Arts Council and an Honorable Mention Award from the Barrett Art Center. In 2019, she participated in the ARTWorks Fellowship at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL) and was selected into the Creative Capital NYC “El Taller” in collaboration with the Hemispheric Institute. In 2020, Jessica completed the Trestle Art Space Residency Program, was awarded the New Work Grant by the Queens Art Fund, and won the Diane Etienne Founders Award from the Stamford Art Association. In 2021, she was shortlisted for the Hopper Price Award and was a finalist for the Alexander Rutsch Award. More recently, Jessica was named the 2021 MvVo AdArt Show winner and The Jackson Painting Prize Emerging Artist Award...

2016- NY Academy of Art - MFA Studies. (dropped out)
2013- NY Academy of Art- Certificate in Drawing & Painting
2014- Long Island Academy of Fine Art- Atelier Armetta.
2001- Parsons School of Design, NY Diploma Course in Graphic Design.
1994- Universidad Anáhuac- México City Bachelor in Communications

SOLO EXHIBIT

2021- La Familia - Black Wall Street Gallery, New York, NY
2020- Portraits of Latino Immigrants - Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning. Queens, NY
2019- New Work Artifact Gallery. New York, NY
2017- Celebrating Latino Life West Side Arts Coalition Gallery Space. New York, NY



GROUP EXHIBITS

2021- Artists to Artists- New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2021- Dissolving Borders 2- ChaShama, New York, NY
2021- Summer in TriBeCa- Black Wall Street Gallery, New York, NY
2021- Nine Lives- Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
2021- Elan Vital- MoCa Museum. Westport, CT.
2021- Intrinsic Nature- The Curator's Salon
2021- MvVo Ad Art Show, Oculus, New York, NY
2021- Save Art Space- Your Art LA 5, LA
2021- Dissolving Borders- JVS Project Space, New York, NY
2021- One in a Year- The Painting Center, New York, NY
2021- Art Takes 2021- See Mee Community, Ki Smith Gallery, NY
2021- Parallels & Peripheries- New York Academy of Art, NY
2121- Members Exhibition- Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
2020- Benefit for G.L.I.T.S- Transmitter, Brooklyn, NY
2020- Life in a Pressure Cooker- Young Spaces Views
2020- Contemporary Portraiture: Redefining the Figure, Visionary Art Collective
2020- Artists to Artists...