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Contreras is constantly deconstructing and re-imagining objects in his environment.
About Alejandro Contreras
Alejandro Contreras is a Venezuelan-born artist currently living and working New York.
He earned a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from University of Florida, New World School of the Arts. He completed the Home and Away residency at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, Colorado.
Contreras has been part of group and solo exhibitions including Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL; The Boiler | Elm Foundation, Brooklyn, NY; The Dots Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia; Museum of Fine Arts and Gallery of the Multimedia Cultural Centre, Split, Croatia; Half Gallery, Manhattan, New York; ChaShaMa, Manhattan, New York; Lenfest Center for the Arts, Manhattan, New York; The Wallach Art Gallery, Manhattan, New York; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC; White Box, Harlem, NY; Frost Museum of Art, Miami, FL; McLoughlin Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Spinello Gallery Miami, FL; Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL, among others.
Alejandro Contreras CV
EDUCATION
2008
New World School of the Arts, BFA in Electronic Intermedia
2003
Design and Architecture Senior High, Graphic Design
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Portals in a State of Sunshine, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
In Work We Trust – ¡Chamo, ¿Qué Hiciste con el Carro?!, The Boiler | Elm Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2021
Güelcome to My Bereaved Chimera of La La Land, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2015
This Was Not What We Asked For, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2014
Material Collaborations, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2010
Untitled, Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami, FL
2008
Colonialism, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
2006
Paint as an Object, Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami, FL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Draw: Point to Point, Curated by Tomas Vu, Brian Novatny and Yady Rivero, Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum. Miami, FL
2022
UNSEEN – The Unpredictable Forms of Drawing – The Dots Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
DRAW – What is Contemporary Drawing and What It All Can Be – Museum of Fine Arts and Gallery of the Multimedia Cultural Centre, Split, Croatia
Otherwise, Half Gallery, Columbia MFA Student Exhibition, Manhattan, New York
Monumena – ChaShaMa, Columbia MFA Student Exhibition, Manhattan, New York
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Lenfest Center for the Arts, Manhattan, New York
2021
A Journey Through Printmaking – CAFA Art Museum, The Central Academy of Fine Arts
The (Better Late Than Never) Summer Show, Columbia MFA Student Exhibition, ChaShaMa Gallery, New York, NY
Class of 2022 First Year MFA Exhibition, The Wallach Art Gallery, Manhattan, New York
2020
DRAWN: Concept & Craft, SECCA Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, North Carolina
Powder Hounds, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, Colorado
2019
Whitebox, Green Go Home, Harlem. NY
Bottleship Potemkim, Fredric Snitzer, Miami, FL
Cut: Abstraction in the United States from the 1070s to the Present, Frost Museum, FIU, Miami, FL
2018
Hampton South 2707, #Available Space, Aventura, Miami
Mindy Solomon Gallery, Would You Just Shut Up and Listen, Miami
2017
Mindy Solomon Gallery, Pulse Art Fair, Art Basel, Miami
2014
Art Miami, Mindy Solomon Gallery
2012
Alta Temperatura, McLoughlin Gallery, San Francisco
2011
Progreso – Proceso, Burst Project Art Fair, Miami Hue / Project room, Praxis International Art, Miami Wonderstruck, Praxis International art, New York
2009
Little Sister, Spinello Gallery, Miami
2007 Fear, Fate, Fame, Freedom Tower, Miami Projected Visions, New World School of Arts Gallery, Miami
2006
Rising Stars, New World School of Arts Gallery, Miami, FL
2005
Visages and Secrets, Laure De Mazieres, Miami Art Basel
Florida Calls, The Moore Space, Miami, FL
RESIDENCIES
2020
Oolite Arts at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, Colorado
PUBLIC ART
2020
Sagamore Art Hotel, Miami Beach, FL
2017
United States Embassy in the Congo, Africa.
2016
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Washington, DC.
2015
C1 bank, Wynwood, Miami.
Vagabond Hotel, Miami.
2014
Vinyl Painting Installation , Sony Latin America Head Quarters, Coral Gables 11 feet by 100 feet, 11 feet by 30 feet, and 11 feet by 20 feet
Alejandro Contreras: Portals In A State Of Sunshine
June 10–July 29, 2023
Alejandro Contreras: Güelcome to my Bereaved Chimera of La La Land
January 23 - March 13, 2021
Meet Alejandro Contreras
April 15, 2020/by Frances TromblyAlejandro Contreras receives Oolite Arts Home + Away Residency
October 17, 2019/by Frances TromblyAlejandro Contreras in Exhibition at Frost Art Museum
May 6, 2019/by FulanoIf you would just shut up and listen
March 16- May 19, 2018
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Alejandro Contreras:This Wasn’t What We Asked For
September 12-October 16, 2015
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