ALEXANDRA McCORMICK  
amcc@alexandramcc.com
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Alexandra McCormick is a visual artist based in Montreal. Her practice explores the relationship between landscape, memory, and time through watercolor, installation, and photography. Her work combines observation and materiality, creating narratives that connect nature with everyday life. She has participated in exhibitions and residencies in Colombia, Argentina  and Canada, developing projects that engage in dialogue between lanscape and territory.

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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
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

ESFERA PUBLICA 
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 de Angelica María Zorrilla para la exposición Variaciones Inconclusas en La Galería 2013.
  

Texto de Susana Quintero para la exposición Objetos de encuentro en casa  Museo Norte de Santander 2012.

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
Selected work


PLIEGUE |PLI | FOLD    
TURBA. Installation, Watercolor book  and video projection (loop) .Dimensions: Variable  ( Watercolor 425 cm x 136 cm) 2024




Photo:Jacques Bellavance.

FATA MORGANA

 Photography, 270 cm × 190 cm Regarde 2024, Montreal. 2024



UN MAPA, UNA ATARRALLA, UNA ISLA, UN PEZ Y UN ESPARTILLO Sterling Silver 975, filigree, stamped sheet, espartillo chain. Collaboration, Orfebrería Leanjo Mompox-  Leticia Gutierrez. 
Program Arte Vivo Colombia. 2024







DE LA MONTAÑA AL RIO
Installation
Variable dimensions: two modules, 213 cm x 103 cm each, photographs and video projection on water. 2018




TERRITORIOS INESTABLES

Installation Variable dimensions, photography, objects, documents, and plants. 2001- 2015




EXTENSION DE TERRENO QUE SE VE DESDE UN SITIO  
Installation, variable dimensions: four tables, 8 drawings in invisible ink, light sensor, UV light. 2012





MINUTA PARA UN ESTANQUE 
 Installation, variable dimensions. Projections on water and sound. 2014





POTENCIALES EVOCADOS
 In-situ installation. Variable dimensions, “San Juan de Dios Hospital” 2014




RELÁMPAGO PERMANENTE In-situ installation. Lightnin. Variable dimensions, 2014








OFICINA DE PATRIMONIO INTANGIBLE Performance 2007
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