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.
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 PLIEGUE |
PLI | FOLD
(on going) Esta serie de acuarelas se pliega como un volumen de pequeñas dimensiones y formatos, similar a libros. También se despliega como grandes superficies pictóricas. Las he venido realizando en mi nuevo lugar, Montréal. En esta migración, donde nos plegamos y desplegamos en otros territorios, en Montréal empieza a ser el río quien me abraza; es el agua la que me abraza en esta nueva tierra.
Los libros de acuarelas parten de registros fotográficos y llegan a la acuarela como un agua que recibe y alimenta este nuevo enraizamiento. El agua acompaña y colabora en esta construcción: en su relación con lo fotográfico, donde se deja ver la fuerza de la gravedad a través del goteo y el encharcamiento.
En Reading Water, además, el agua se desborda y entra en relación con piedras, ramas y fragmentos del poema, que dialogan con la acuarela y la gravedad en la construcción de la imagen.
Reading Water es un libro-pintura de 374 × 212 cm que se despliega verticalmente, de un reflejo donde plantas y árboles son reconocibles hasta una figuración que se disuelve en corrientes y sedimento. Incorpora fragmentos de poemas de Jaspreet Singh sobre el movimiento del agua.
This series of watercolors folds into small-scale volumes and formats, similar to books. It also unfolds into large pictorial surfaces. I have been creating them in my new place, Montreal. In this migration, where we fold and unfold ourselves into other territories, in Montreal the river is beginning to be what embraces me; it is the water that embraces me in this new land.
These watercolor books begin with photographic records and arrive at watercolor like water itself: something that receives and nourishes this new rooting. Water accompanies and collaborates in this construction, in its relationship with the photographic, where the force of gravity becomes visible through dripping and pooling.
In Reading Water, water also overflows, entering into relation with stones, branches, and fragments of the poem, which converse with the watercolor and with gravity in the construction of the image. Reading Water is a 374 × 212 cm watercolor book-painting that unfolds vertically, moving from a reflection where plants and trees are recognizable down to a figuration that dissolves into currents and sediment. It incorporates fragments of Jaspreet Singh's poems about the movement of water.
TURBA. Installation, Watercolor book, Dimensions: Variable dimensions, ( Watercolor 425 cm x 136 cm) 2024
VIDEO
Writing water, watercolor, Jaspreet Singh (poem) and video projection. Dimensions: variable. Watercolor 374 cm x 212 cm. 2026
Magnolia, Watercolor 374 cm x 212 cm. Dimensions: variable. 2026
Equinacea, Watercolor 89.5 cm x 83.4 cm. Dimensions: variable. 2026