CV
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 | Lexicon of Plants, Ephemeral Construct, Multimedia installation, The Frank, Pembroke Pines, FL
2023 | Jardín de Memorias, Garden of Memories, BaCA, Pompano Beach, FL
2023 | The Drying West, Multimedia Installation digital and drawings, Understudy, Denver, CO
2021 | Memoria y Mitos, Solo Show, Pompano Beach Cultural Center, FL
2021 | Heirlooms, Multimedia installation, PlatteForum, Denver, CO
2021 | Un País Olvidado: Reliquias de Vigencia, Arbor Institute, Boulder, CO
PUBLIC ART + ACTIVATIONS + OUTDOOR EXHIBITIONS
2023-2024 | Look After / Look Ahead, Video Installation, History Colorado, CO
2023 | Our Wishes, Participatory Installation, Boulder Library, Boulder, CO
2022 | Our Wishes, Site-specific, Public Library Association, The Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR
2021 | UNTITLED, The Spirit Survives, Featured Artist, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2021 | Our Wishes, Nuestros Deseos, Site-specific participatory installation, Anythink, Wright Farms, CO
2021 | Our Wishes, Nuestros Deseos, Site-specific participatory installation, Pearl Street, CO
2021 | Our Wishes, Nuestros Deseos, Site-specific participatory installation, Boulder One Plaza, CO
2021 | Banderas de Esperanza, Community Sourced Messages, Santa Fe Art District, Denver, CO
2020 | A Night of Open Grief, Interwoven, Collab Performance & projections, ArborInstitute, Boulder, CO
2018| PEZ Nouveau, Public Art, Painted Pompano, Pompano Cultural Center, Pompano Beach, FL
2017 | 7 (Seven), Commissioned Film. Director for performance l Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL
2017 | Our Place In The Design District, Commissioned, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
2017 | Giant Coloring Book, Tactile sculpture, Art Festival, Sponsored & Grant by the City of Tamarac, FL
2016 | O’Keeffe, Mural, outdoor exhibition, Bay Gates Mural Project, Boynton Beach Art District, FL
2014 | Giants In The City, Audiovisual performance Bayfront Park, Miami, FL
2007 | Lost in Translation, Who Art Thou? Lollapalooza Music Festival, Chicago, IL
SCREENINGS
2023 | VIDA, Animation, Featured artist at GLOWLAND for Outdoor Video Projection, Pittsburgh, PA
2023 | VIDA, Animation, Meow Wolf, Denver, CO
2023 | Beyond Sound, Side Stories an Outdoor Film Festival in the RiNo Art District , Denver, CO
2022 | All Creatures, Animation, Silent Screen curated by Beatie Wolfe, Denver, CO
2022 | VIDA, Supernova Digital Animation Festival, Buell Theater & Sie FilmCenter, Denver, CO
2022 | VIDA, Stop Motion-Animation, ALC VideoArt Festival, Museo de Aguas Alicante, Spain
2022 | YARA, Projected Animation onto The historic Daniels & Fisher Tower, Denver, CO
2021 | Flags of Hope, Projection on Historic Daniel & Fisher Clock Tower, Denver, CO
2020 | Poli Mito & Bodies of Water, Shikata Ga Nai, Virtual November screenings at acinema.space
2020 | Spume, 24th International Symposium Digital Art, Vienna, Austria, and Melbourne, Australia
2020 | Fluir, Fiske Planetarium, Boulder, CO
2020 | Poli Mito, King Exhibition, CU Visual Arts Complex, Boulder, CO
2019 | Poli Mito, Animation, Borscht Film Festival, Miami, FL
2018 | Untitled, Photo NOLA, Cyanotype Flags, New Orleans Healing Center, New Orleans, LA
2018 | En Un Mundo Tecnicolor, Artmix, Painting, Boulder Museum Of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
2018 | Sonaris Azul, Animation, Sound Art Conference, Artificio Galeria, Villavicencio, Colombia
2017 | Cave of Swimmers, Video and Animation, Borscht Diez, Film Festival, Alfred I. du Pont, Miami, FL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 | Reliquías, Video installation, In House Sight, FAU Faculty Show, Boca Raton, FL
2023 | Impart, Collage with Animation, BRDG Project Gallery, Denver CO
2023 | Un País Olvidado III, Video installation, Out of Many, More: Voices of The Americas, CU Denver Experience Gallery, CO
2022 | VIDA, Animation, CU Experience Gallery, Denver Digerati Colorado’s Artist Spotlight, Denver, CO
2022 | Rojo, Graphite on paper & object installation, Pirate Contemporary Gallery, Denver, CO
2022 | En Un Mundo Tecnicolor & Flor de Montaña, Women's History Month, Raices, Denver, CO
2021 | Un País Olvidado: Reliquias de Vigencia, CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO
2021 | Sun Spirits, Group Show, Canyon Gallery at Boulder Library, Boulder
2021 | No Me Lo Mate, No, Señor Cazador, OBJECT EMPATHY, Rough Gems, group exhibition, Union Hall, Denver, CO
2020 | BIOME vs. BORDERS, Co-Terminous, group exhibition, Union Hall, Denver, CO
2020 | Fragmentos, Artmix, Cyanotype Diptych Print, Contemporary Art Museum of Boulder, Boulder, CO
2020 | Lo Invisible, Existence Through Distance, installation, Immersive virtual gallery, Boulder, CO
2020 | Mis Hijos, Nature & Technology II, Video installation, The Canvas, Manhattan, NY
2019 | Studies, Artmix, Cyanotype Print, Contemporary Art Museum of Boulder, Boulder, CO
2019 | Bodies of Water, Liminal Space, Installation Animation, Museo de las Américas, Denver, CO
2019 | Bodies of Water, King Exhibition, University of Colorado Visual Arts Complex, Boulder, CO
2018 | Brigadistas, Cyanotype Print, Barcelona, Spain
2018 | Madre Tierra, Painting, Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma City, OK
2017 | Cuatro Deseos, Collaborative installation, Dream-like forest, Space Mountain, Miami, FL
2016 | Embrace, Illustration , The Truth to Power Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
2013 | Untitled, Art That Feeds, Acrylic painting on ceramic plate, Miami, FL
2008 | Light Creatures, BFA Exhibition, Sculpture, video installation, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
2008 | EN3MY, Crab & Lobsters, live performance -real time interaction with audience, Chicago, IL
2007 | Interviews, Dropped frames, Video installation and mural, Chicago, IL
2007 | Thread, VOID, GardenFresh Art Gallery, Processing animation, Chicago, IL
ACHIEVEMENTS & AWARDS
2024| Best Experimental Short: Un País Olvidado: Reliquias de Vigencia/ Forgotten Country: Relics of Agency, Selected
Independent Shorts Awards, Los Angeles, CA
2024 | Artists Support Regional Grant, Funding for Animated Projection Project, Pompano Beach, FL
2023 | Side Stories, Funding for animation, Denver, CO
2023 | Understudy, Funding for exhibition, Denver, CO
2022 | VIDA, Honorable Mention - Los Angeles Animation Festival
2022 | Anythink Featured Artist at The Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR
2021 | Puffin Grant, Animation
2020-2021 | The Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar Cohort, CU Boulder, CO
2020 | Into Action, Animation Grand Prize Winner, iMAC Pro
2020 | Graduate Summer Fellowship, CU Boulder, CO
2020 | Beverly Sears Grant, CU Boulder, CO
2020 | Nancy Fedou Getzelman Fellowship, CU Boulder, CO
2020 | Neuman Family Fellowship, CU Boulder, CO
2020 | Talent & Creativity Award, CU Boulder, CO
2020 | King Exhibition Graduate Award, CU Boulder, CO
2020 | Charles Truscott Scholarship, CU Boulder, CO
2019 | King Exhibition Graduate Award, CU Boulder, CO
2018 | Departamental IMAP Scholarship, Boulder, CO
2018 | Borscht Corporation Grant, Miami, FL
2018 | CHA Arts & Sciences Fellowship, CU Boulder
2018 | Open Canvas Project, Certificate for Exceptional Contributions (Mural), Fort Lauderdale, FL
2016-2017 | Fellowship at Borscht Corp, Miami FL
2006-2008 | Merit & Presidential Scholarship Recipient, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2008 | Fusion Arts Exchange Digital Media Certificate, Granted by the US Department of State
2007 | Alumni Artwork, Presented by Lollapalooza Music Festival, Chicago, IL
PRESS & MEDIA
2023 |AiR at Bailey Contemporary Arts
https://www.pompanobeacharts.org/baca/artists-in-residence/alejandra-abad
2023 | BRDG Project honors higher-ed art educators in new exhibition
https://yourhub.denverpost.com/blog/2023/09/brdg-project-higher-ed-art-educators/309191/
2023 |Side Stories https://sidestoriescolorado.com/artists-2023/
2022 | El videoarte sale a la calle en Alicante, ALC Videoart Festival inicia las proyecciones en dos pantallas fuera de los museos y en el MACA, by África Prado https://www.informacion.es/cultura/2022/05/10/videoarte-sale-calle-alicante-65943470.html
2021 | BMoCA at Anythink Fall Artist Showcase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT3waXFJQ-0
2021 | As the pandemic winds down, Denver galleries gear up There’s a lot of good art to get excited about by Ray Mark Rinaldi on the Denver Post https://theknow.denverpost.com/2021/04/19/denver-art-galleries-april-2021/256789/
2021 | DARIA Magazine, Artist Profile: Alejandra Abad, Taking Art Out of the Exhibition Space and Into Her Communities by Jillian Blackwell
“Community helps finish hopeful messages art installation in Boulder” by Amy Bounds https://www.dailycamera.com/2021/02/07/community-helps-finish-hopeful-messages-art-installation-in-boulder
2021 | Our Wishes | Nuestros Deseos event https://www.dailycamera.com/events-calendar/?_escaped_fragment_=%2Fshow%2F%3Fser%3DEngineering%2520 Center#!/details/Our-Wishes-Nuestros-Deseos/8841612/2021-02-01T09
2020 | Artist Within, Culture & Art (pg. 31) https://editions.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?m=60956&i=677305&p=32&ver=html5 2020 |“These Artists Are Making Flags From Your Messages of Hope,” by Katrina Leibee https://www.westword.com/arts/alejandra-abad-and-roman-anaya-launch-flags-of-hope-11858349
2020 |“Art flags aim to unite people, celebrate culture, spark hope,” by Kelsey Simpkins https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/11/30/art-flags-aim-unite-people-celebrate-culture-spark-hope
2020 | Instagram Account Spotlights South Florida Victims of Police Brutality
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/names-you-dont-know-highlights-miami-victims-of-police-brutality-11657357
2020 | Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar Cohorts
https://www.colorado.edu/outreach/ooe/office-focus-areas/engaged-arts-and-humanities-initiative/engaged-arts-and-humanities-scholar
2020 |Deep Dive at Union Hall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DUbsftqY3w
2020 | Environmental Futures Conversations by Amy Hoagland https://www.colorado.edu/project/environmental-futures/2020/09/23/alejandra-abad-amy-hoagland
2019 | Boulder artist profile: Alejandra Abad A studio visit with Venezuelan interdisciplinary artist, Tatyana Shaprton. Feature on Bldrfly: https://bldrfly.com/art/2019/10/24/artist-profile-alejandra-abad/
2019 | Review: Espacio Liminal/Liminal Space ExploresIdentity and the In-Between, Michael Paglia Review on Westoword
https://www.westword.com/arts/espacio-liminal-liminal-space-explores-identity-at-museo-de-las-americas-113196 81
2019 | Museo de las Americasshows off the depth of Colorado’s artists as it refocuses on local talent “Espacio Liminal, Liminal Space” features seven Colorado artists, Ray Mark Rinaldi The Know, Special to The Denver Post https://theknow.denverpost.com/2019/04/12/museo-de-las-americas-local-artists/212905/