alejandro acierto
Biography
alejandro t. acierto produces creative projects, exhibitions, and performances that highlight the impact of colonial legacies across technologies, material culture, and the environment. Often taking shape within and across expanded forms of documentary, new media, creative scholarship, and sound, his works have been shown internationally at the Havana Biennial in Matanzas, Cuba, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), ISSUE (NYC), Radialsystem (Berlin), and MCA Chicago, among others. He has also published works with Parse Journal, Dilettante Army, Media-N Journal, and Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture and curated projects for Stove Works (Chattanooga), Tipton Gallery at East Tennessee State University (Johnson City), Vanderbilt University’s Space 204 and Coop (both Nashville), and the BrickAux (Brooklyn).
acierto has previously held residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Banff Centre, High Concept Laboratories, and LATITUDE. A 3Arts Awardee and Puffin Foundation grant recipient, he received his undergraduate degree from DePaul University, an MM from Manhattan School of Music, an MFA in New Media Arts from the University Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and was an inaugural Artist in Residence for Critical Race Studies at Michigan State University. Subsequently, he was a Core Faculty Fellow at Warren Wilson College in the MA for Critical Craft Studies, a Digital Humanities Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University, and received fellowships from the Center for Craft as an Archive Research Fellow and an Ansel Adams Research Fellowship at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona.
Degrees and Certifications
MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago
MM, Manhattan School of Music
BM, DePaul University