alejandro t. acierto is an artist, musician, and curator whose work highlights the impact of colonial legacies across technologies, material culture, and the environment. Working within and across expanded forms of documentary, new media, creative scholarship, and sound, he has presented projects and screenings for the 2019 Havana Biennial in Matanzas, Cuba, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Issue Project Room (NYC), MCA Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Echo Park Film Center (LA), Stove Works (Chattanooga) and Eastside Projects (Birmingham, UK), among others. He has presented multimedia performance works for the Rapid Pulse Performance Art Festival (Chicago), High Zero Festival (Baltimore), the KANEKO (Omaha), and The Quarantine Concerts for ESS Chicago. Additionally, his curatorial projects have been mounted at Stove Works (Chattanooga), Tipton Gallery at East Tennessee State University (Johnson City), Vanderbilt University’s Space 204 and Coop (both Nashville), as well as online for the Wrong Biennial.
acierto has held residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Banff Centre, High Concept Laboratories, LATITUDE, Chicago Artists' Coalition, and Digital Artist Residency. A 3Arts Awardee, 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. Formerly, he was a Mellon Assistant Professor of Digital Art and New Media at Vanderbilt University where he held a Digital Humanities Faculty Fellowship at the Center for Digital Humanities and taught as a Faculty Fellow for Warren Wilson College in the MA Program for Critical Craft Studies. He was a Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow and a 2024 Center for Craft Archive Fellow.
He is now an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance at Arizona State University, New College located on the occupied territories of the Akimel O’odham and Piipaash peoples.
CONTACT: info [at] alejandroacierto [dot] com