Alejandro Valencia

Alejandro Valencia’s practice investigates the processes of political alchemy that disrupt and reconfigure power, history, and identity. Approaching history as a malleable material, Valencia examines dissent and consensus as forces that shape the transformation of individual, cultural, and collective identities.

Valencia earned his BFA from the New World School of the Arts (2017) and his MFA from Columbia University (2026). He pursued advanced research in Memory Studies at Universidad de Antioquia (2020) and in Political Aesthetics at Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano (2021) in Colombia. He was nominated for the Sara Modiano Contemporary Artist Award (2022) and the Harpo Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship (2017), and is the co-founder of colectivo, an artist collective dedicated to exploring DIY culture in the Global South, and of NOMUSEO, a curatorial research initiative based in Colombia. 

He lives and works between New York, Miami, and Manizales.