Alejandra Abad is a Venezuelan American interdisciplinary artist and educator who explores belonging as a key part of collective wellness. Through layering, abstraction, and light, she creates audiovisual experiences. Her playful storytelling evokes visual poetry, fragmentation, folklore, and mythology. Her style is informed by architectural studies at Florida Atlantic University, Film/Video/New Media/Animation at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Interdisciplinary Media Art Practices at The University of Colorado.
Recent works: The Drying West (2023; Understudy, Denver) comments on the endangerment of species, water diversion, and shortages; Forgotten Country: Relics of Agency (2021-2023; University of Colorado Art Museum, Arbor Institute, Boulder, CU Experience Galleries; Biennial of the Americas Cities Summit in Denver and FAU Schmidt Gallery) explores oral histories from the Venezuelan exodus; Lexicon de Plantas (2024; Frank Gallery, Pembroke Pines) is a large-scale audiovisual participatory installation with complexities of memory, migration, and belonging, and it was presented as an art paper at the Expanded Animation conference at ARS Electronica in Linz, Austria; Memento Nos: Migration and Movement in America (2024; Group Exhibition at The Hand Art Center in DeLand); TRES (2025; Solo Show, displayed at the Coral Springs Museum of Art).
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