ALEXANDRA McCORMICK
amcc@alexandramcc.com
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My artistic practice investigates the relationships we build with the
territories we inhabit, and how, through those relationships, we are
also inhabited and transformed by them. This inquiry takes shape
through drawing, watercolor, installation, and photography that engage
the body, memory, and the archive.
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Awards and Recognitions: She was nominated for the Sara Mondiano Prize in 2013 and awarded second place at the Salón de Arte Joven del Nogal. In 2008, she received an honorable mention in the Master’s Program in Visual Arts at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia for her thesis Oficina de Patrimonio Intangible. In 2005, she was awarded third place in the IV Salón de Fotografía El Municipal, and in 2003, she obtained first place in a competition organized by the Instituto Distrital de Cultura y Turismo in Bogotá. Between 1998 and 2002, she received an academic excellence scholarship at the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano.
She has participated in major exhibitions, including MDE15: Historias Locales, Prácticas Globales at Museo de Antioquia in Medellín (2015). She has also undertaken several international artist residencies, including Galería Jano in Montreal (2024), Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (2015, supported by Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia, Lugar a Dudas in Cali (2011, Ministry of Culture grant), and Museo MACRO and Museo Castagnino in Rosario, Argentina (2009).
Recent Exhibitions:She has participated in national and international exhibitions, including Regarde! 2024 in Montreal. Curated by Eunice Bélidor, ArtBO, ArteVivo, Artesanías de Colombia, MDE15 at the Museo de Antioquia in Medellín, the National Salon of Young Art, ARTBO and Arte Cámara, and the BBVA Salon. Her work has been exhibited at the MACRO Museum in Argentina, The World Bank Art Program in Washington, and the Provincial Center for Visual Arts in Havana, Cuba, as well as the Banco de la República in Colombia.
Teaching and Collective Projects:
She has led workshops and laboratories in Bogotá and other regions of Colombia in collaboration with Banco de la República, Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia, and Fedepalma. In addition, she has taught drawing at the Universidad Pedagógica and sculptural and three-dimensional languages at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. She has participated in collective projects in Rosario (Argentina), Bogotá, and Cali (Colombia).
Solo-Main Group Exhibitions2026
Telúrico. Jose Amar Gallery. Medellin, Colombia.
Y pertenecíamanos solo a nosotras mismas, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Museos y Colecciones del Banco de la Republica, Bogotá, Colombia.
2025
The Future Holds Something For Us, New York, USA
Inter Medio Exhibit Gallery Jano ,
Curator Riesbri, Montreal, Canada
2024
Regarde 2024 Curator eunice bélidor Montreal, Canada
ArtBO, ArteVivo, Artesanias de Colombia,
Bogotá, Colombia
2023
ArtBO, Programa Referentes MAP. Bogotá, Colombia
Gilberto Alzate Foundation Encounter: Longings of
Observation and Listening Bogotá, Colombia
2022
Ires y venires, Museos y Colecciones del Banco de la Republica, Bogotá, Colombia.
2019
Los Nogales School. Colombia Hall. Bogotá, Colombia.
Rincón Projects, Expanded Territories. Bogotá, Colombia
Elvira Moreno Gallery. In House. Bogotá, Colombia
Casa Cano Gallery. Romance. Bogotá, Colombia
2018
Million Art Fair, Mentors Program. Bogotá, Colombia.
2013
LA Gallery. Unfinished Variations.
Bogotá, Colombia. (Solo)
2012
Museo Centenario de Norte de Santander. Objetos de encuentro. Curator Susana Quintero. Cucuta Colombia (Solo)
Artistic ResidenciesDesjardin Atelier
Gallery Jano
Montreal, Canada.
2024
Ministerio de Cultura Colombia, Grant
Banff Center.
Banff,
Canada.
2015
Ministry of Culture, National Incentives.Grant
Lugar a Dudas.
Cali, Colombia.
2011
Municipal Museum of Fine Arts Juan B Castagnino + MACRO.
Rosario, Argentina.
Facilisis: Ultricies Orn
2009
Press
Residency Gallery Jano Lapin
Four winners of the Desjardin’s artistic residency call at Jano Lapin Gallery
2024
La double peine des artistes immigrants
2023
Fitotopías: lugares de agenciamiento político
2021
Ires y venires. 2022 Casa Republicana, Colección Museos del Banco de la República. Bogotá, Colombia
2020
Justo x Bueno. Ese Dinero es de los Artistas
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Mde15 2015, Museo de Antioquia. Historias Locales, Prácticas Globales. Medellín,Colombia.
Tandem. 2014 Galería Magda Bellotti. Madrid, España.
CATALOGO ¿Por qué el Cielo es amarillo? 2012 Grant. Ministerio de Cultura. Pasantías Nacionales. Lugar a Dudas. Cali, Colombia.
Md15 2015
Residencia Rosario. 2009 Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan B Castagnino + MACRO. Rosario, Argentina pag.54
Education
Rosemount Technology Centre, Computer Graphics. Montreal,
Canada.
2022 - 2023
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Master's Degree in Visual Arts. Bogotá,Colombia.
2006 - 2008
Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, Bachelor in Fine Arts.
Bogotá, Colombia.
1998 - 2001
TEXTS :Texto Ximena Gama para la exposición Incidentes: celebraciones de lo inesperado
IMAGINARIOS, Edición no 106 | El espectador. Cultura. enero 19 de 2018 por Érica Martínez Cuervo.
Last Updated 24.10.31 DE LA MONTAÑA AL RIO En este encuentro con el paisaje del Parque Nacional Banff, en Canadá, con las montañas Rocosas y el río que bordea el pueblo, se revelaba un diálogo silencioso, casi un secreto o un murmullo antiguo entre las piedras y el agua. Ese dejarse disolver, afectar y transformar hasta convertirse en un pequeño guijarro fue el lugar donde pude encontrarme.
Este tránsito de la montaña al río implica otra temporalidad. Por eso tomé algunos guijarros, los sumergí en agua con acuarela en mi taller, dejando una impronta en una etiqueta de papel, y luego los llevé de vuelta al río para que continuaran su proceso. Las fotografías de las cumbres, en su inmensidad, contrastan con la pequeñez del guijarro y su huella mínima sobre el papel.
Instalación — 308 etiquetas de papel con impronta de acuarela (guijarros sumergidos en agua con acuarela), fotografías de acercamientos a las cumbres de las montañas Rocosas (Banff), proyección de video sobre agua. Dimensiones: Dos módulos de 213 × 103 cm. 2018
In this encounter with the landscape of Banff National Park, in Canada, with the Rocky Mountains and the river that borders the town, a silent dialogue was revealed — almost a secret, or an ancient murmur between the stones and the water. That act of letting oneself dissolve, be affected and transformed until becoming a small pebble was the place where I was able to find myself.
This transition from mountain to river implies a different temporality. That is why I took some pebbles, submerged them in watercolor-mixed water in my studio, leaving an imprint on a paper label, and then carried them back to the river so they could continue their process. The photographs of the peaks, in their immensity, contrast with the smallness of the pebble and its minimal trace on paper.
Installation — 308 paper labels with watercolor imprints (pebbles submerged in watercolor-mixed water), photographs of close-ups of the Rocky Mountain peaks (Banff), video projection on waterDimensions: Two modules, 213 × 103 cm each. 2018