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​Alejandro Contreras
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Born in Caracas, Venezuela, 1983.
​Lives and works in New York, NY. 


EDUCATION

Columbia University, Master of Fine Arts, 2022
University of Florida, New World School of the Arts,  Bachelor of Fine Arts, 2008.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025
Emersión - LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. USA

2023
Portals in a State of Sunshine - Mindy Solomon Gallery. Miami, FL. USA.

In Work We Trust - ¡Chamo, ¿Qué Hiciste con el Carro?! - The Boiler | Elm Foundation.  Brooklyn, NY. USA.

2021
Güelcome to My Bereaved Chimera of La La Land - Mindy Solomon Gallery. Miami, FL. USA.

2015
This Was Not What We Asked For - Mindy Solomon Gallery. Miami, FL. USA.

2014
Material Collaborations - Mindy Solomon Gallery. Miami, FL. USA.

2010
Untitled - Diaspora Vibe Gallery. Miami, FL. USA.

2008
Colonialism - Fredric Snitzer Gallery. Miami, FL. USA.

2006
Paint as an Object - Diaspora Vibe Gallery.Miami, FL. USA.


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

Heat - The Hudson River Art Museum, Yonkers, N.Y. USA.

DRAW Paralelo - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo - Quinta Normal Gallery, Universidad de Chile,  Santiago, Chile 

Splinters of Angst Derelict - HUA International. Berlin, Germany.

2024
DRAWLowell Confluence - University of Massachusetts Lowell Art Gallery.  Lowell, MA, USA.

2023
Draw: Point to Point - Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum. Miami, Florida. USA.
Curated by Tomas Vu, Brian Novatny and Yady Rivero.

2022
UNSEEN - The Unpredictable Forms of Drawing - The Dots Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia.
Curated by Tomas Vu, Brian Novatny, Mirjana Dušić and Ljuba Jovićević

DRAW - What is Contemporary Drawing and What It All Can Be - Museum of Fine Arts and Gallery of the Multimedia Cultural Centre, Split, Croatia.
Curated by Tomas Vu, Brian Novatny, Stipan Tadić, and Marija Stipišić Vuković.

Otherwise - Half Gallery, Columbia MFA Student Exhibition, Manhattan, New York.  USA.
Curated by Victoria Horrocks, Carlota Ortiz Monasterio, and HoWon Kim

Monumena - ChaShaMa, Columbia MFA Student Exhibition, Manhattan, New York.  USA.
Curated by Sally Eaves Hughes and Emmanuel Olunkwa

MFA Thesis Exhibition - Lenfest Center for the Arts, Manhattan, New York. USA.
Curated by Elisabeth Sherman

2021
A Journey Through Printmaking - CAFA Art Museum, The Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Curated by Tomas Vu, Yang Hongwei, and Xinyl Liu.

The (Better Late Than Never) Summer Show - Columbia MFA Student ExhibitionChaShaMa Gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Junni Chen & Owen Duffy Arts

Class of 2022 First Year MFA Exhibition - The Wallach Art Gallery, Manhattan, New York.  USA.
Curated by Regine Basha,

2020
DRAWN: Concept & Craft - SECCA Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, North Carolina. USA.
Curated by Tomas Vu, Brian Novatny, and Wendy Earl

Powder Hounds -Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, Colorado. USA.

2019
Green Go Home - Whitebox, Harlem, New York.  USA.

Battleship Potemkin - Fredric Snitzer, Miami, Florida.  USA.

Cut: Abstraction in the United States from the 1070’s to the present - Frost Museum of Art FIU, Miami, FL. USA.

2018
#Available Space - Hampton South 2707, Aventura, FL. USA.

If You Would You Just Shut Up and Listen - Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL. USA.

2017
Mindy Solomon Gallery Pulse Art Fair, Miami, FL.  USA.

2014
Mindy Solomon Gallery Art Miami, Miami, FL. USA.

2012
Alta Temperatura - McLoughlin Gallery, San Francisco, CA. USA.

2011
Progreso - Proceso - Burst Project Art Fair, Miami, FL. USA.

Hue - Praxis International Art, Miami, FL. USA.

2009
Little Sister - Spinello Gallery, Miami, FL. USA.

2007
Fear, Fate, Fame - Museum of Art and Design, Freedom Tower, Miami, FL. USA.

Projected Visions - NWSA Gallery, Miami, FL. USA.

2006
Rising Stars - NWSA Gallery, Miami, FL. USA.

2005
Visages and Secrets - Laure De Mazieres, Miami, FL USA.

Florida Calls - The Moore Space,  Miami, FL. USA.


COMMISSIONS AND PUBLIC ART

2020
Sagamore Art Hotel, Miami Beach, FL. USA.

2017
United States Embassy. Democratic Republic of Congo.

2016
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Washington, DC. USA.

2015
C1 bank, Miami, FL. USA.

Vagabond Hotel,Miami, FL. USA.

2014
Sony Latin America Head Quarters, Miami, FL. USA.


ART RESIDENCIES
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2025
Tropical Lab LaSalle College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore. 
2020
Oolite arts @ Anderson’s Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass. Colorado. USA.



Currently Represented by: Mindy Solomon Gallery | www.mindysolomongallery.com | Miami.  USA.