alejandro t. acierto
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School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies 4701 W. Thunderbird, MC#2151 Glendale, AZ 85306
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Mail code: 2151Campus: West
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alejandro t. acierto is an artist, musician, and curator whose work is largely informed by legacies of colonialism found within human relationships to technology and material cultures. 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 is also co-director of CQDELAB, an ongoing collaborative project with KT Duffy invested in developing and sustaining queer-feminist digital spaces, systems, and toolsets. Together, they authored the artist book CQDE: A Feminist Manifestx of Code-ing published by Sybil Press. Additionally, his curatorial projects have been mounted at Vanderbilt University’s Space 204 Gallery, Coop (Nashville), and online for the Wrong Biennial and his writing has appeared in the Journal for Asian Diasporic Visual Culture and the Americas, and in the edited volume Imperial Islands: Art, Architecture, and Visual Experience in the US Insular Empire after 1898, edited by Joseph R. Hartman.
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 holds degrees from DePaul University (BM), Manhattan School of Music (MM), University Illinois at Chicago (MFA), and was 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 and was a Digital Humanities Faculty Fellow in the Center for Digital Humanities. Currently, he serves as a Teaching Fellow for the MA in Critical Craft Studies at Warren Wilson College and primarily as Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance at Arizona State University, New College.
MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago MM, Manhattan School of Music BM, DePaul University
acierto, alejandro t. “And Then Suddenly, It Was Simply Everywhere: Glitter, Visibility, and the Queer Research Percussion Group Zine Collection.” Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture 4, no. 2 (2023).
–. “Who Holds? (Annotations on the Notes Involving a Story of Possession).” PARSE Journal, Violence, no. 15 (Autumn 2022). https://parsejournal.com/article/who-holds/.
–. “Condition Report.” Dilettante Army, Spring 2022. https://dilettantearmy.com/articles/condition-report.
–. “Sustained Constraint: Locating Corporeal Control through Archived Images of the Breath in the Philippines after 1898.” In Imperial Islands: Art, Architecture, and Visual Experience in the US Insular Empire after 1898, edited by Joseph R. Hartman. Perspectives on the Global Past. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2021.
–. “Aram Han Sifuentes: Protest Banner Lending Library.” Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas 4, no. 3 (2018): 338–41.
SOLO* & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023
the things that stayed, two-person show with Dan Paz, SOIL, Seattle, WA
2020
what lies beneath is already on the surface, two-person show with Allana Clarke, Langer over Dickie, Chicago, IL
2019
*The dead are not altogether powerless, Boundary, Chicago, IL
You want them to notice, two-person show with Bradley Marshall, Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN
2018
*Kills time, The Back Room at Kim’s Corner Food, Chicago, IL
*In the Absence of Sight, Michigan State University Galleries, East Lansing, MI
2017
*Breathing Room, Roman Susan, Chicago, IL
*the means by which we make an opening, THE SUB-MISSION/MISSION Projects, Chicago, IL
SELECTED SOLO PERFORMANCES
2020
we try to keep in touch, The Quarantine Concerts, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, IL
2019
we continue to sustain ourselves, Elastro Series, Elastic Arts Foundation, Chicago, IL
2018
Transmit 4.x, Kaneko, Omaha, NE
2017
from nothing, a process of making, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL
Transmit 3.x, Radical Networks Festival, New York City, NY
upon the horizon, a space of unknowing, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2016
MCA Live: alejandro t. acierto, Transmit, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
SELECTED BIENNIALS AND FESTIVALS
2020
a desire to touch, curated by Elastic Arts Foundation, High Zero Festival, Baltimore, MD
Our proximities are tethered with time, CIRCULATIONS Symposium, UChicago, Chicago, IL
out of touch, Film and Video Poetry Symposium, Pasadina, CA
2019
falls the shadow for the Wrong Biennial, curated by Oscar Cass-Darweish & Sean O’Keeffe, The Eastside Projects︎, Birmingham, UK
Puro as part of Ríos Intermitentes en Matanzas, curated by María Magdalena Campos-Pons, 13th Havana Biennial, Matanzas, Cuba
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Enmeshed Worlds, curated by Jodi McCoy, Carolla Arts Exhibition Center, Springfield, MO
...displacing, curated by Chalet Comellas and Clinton Sleeper, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
2022
All that Glows in the Dark of Democracy, curated by Kasia Houlihan, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Chicago, IL
2021
Import/Export, curated by Dawit L. Petros, Kent State University, Kent, OH
Other World, curated by Michele Bosak, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts at Ferris State University, Grand Rapids, MI
Mixed America, curated by Shai Perry, Tipton Gallery at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2020
AFTER LIFE (we survive), curated by Thea Quiray Tagle, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
untied, curated by Allison Lacher and Jeff Robinson, Visual Arts Gallery, University of Illinois-Springfield, Springfield, IL
Teachable Moment, curated by Mike Calway-Fagan, Stove Works, Chatanooga, TN
Vox Populi Juried Publication, curated by James Claiborne and Brittany Webb, Vox Populi, online and Philadelphia, PA
2019
Poetics of Relation, curated by Sheridan Tucker, Dreihaus Foundation, Chicago, IL
ID.entities: Filipinx, curated by Shai Perry, KCKCC Art Gallery, Kansas City Kansas Community College, Kansas City, KS
2018
Kayumanggi: Post Colonial Filipinx, curated by Karlota Contreras-Koterbay, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
The Dangerous Professors, curated by Ruslana Lichtzier, Flatland Gallery, Houston, TX
Survival: After Ruins, What Remains, curated by Thea Quiray Tagle, The Alice, Seattle, WA
2017
Idle Hands - New Adventures In Metaphysical Arbitrage: 100 Years of the Readymade, curated by Brandon Alvendia, Pilot+Projects, Philadelphia, PA
ONE, curated by Justin Witte, Cleve Carney Art Gallery at College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
Subdivision, curated by Allison Lacher and Jeff Robinson, University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, IL
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2022
this exists inside this frame but it also exists inside this other frame, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
2020
Deliberate Acts: Art and Incarceration, Space 204 at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
In the teeth of empire, co-curated with Queer Trans Caucus for Art, Porous Gallery at Columbia College of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2019
TAKE REFUGE, COOP Gallery, Nashville, TN
Rumors of Necessity, Tipton Gallery, East Tennesee State University, Johnson City, TN
Unsettling time, online and in Gallery 2 of Space 204, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Courses
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| IAP 304 | Trads/Avant-Garde Expermtl Art |
| IAP 480 | Art as Praxis: Concept to Prod |
| IAP 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| IAP 341 | History of Anime |
| IAP 341 | History of Anime |
| IAS 341 | History of Anime |
| IAP 465 | Media Technologies & the Arts |
| IAP 598 | Special Topics |
| IAP 590 | Reading and Conference |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| MAS 598 | Special Topics |
| IAP 304 | Trads/Avant-Garde Expermtl Art |
| IAP 494 | Special Topics |
| AMS 494 | Special Topics |
| IAP 494 | Special Topics |
| WST 494 | Special Topics |
| IAP 493 | Honors Thesis |
| IAP 590 | Reading and Conference |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| HON 493 | Honors Thesis |
| IAP 361 | Digital Editing/Media Literacy |
| IAP 334 | Conceptual Develop in the Arts |
| IAP 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| HON 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| IAP 354 | Visual Representation |
| IAP 304 | Trads/Avant-Garde Expermtl Art |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| IAP 334 | Conceptual Develop in the Arts |
| IAP 305 | 20th-21st Cent Art, Perf&Media |