Elia Alba

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ABOUT ELIA ALBA

Elia Alba, born in Brooklyn, is a multidisciplinary artist, who works in photography, video and sculpture. Her practice is concerned with the social and political complexity of race, representation, identity and the collective community. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Hunter College in 1994 and completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 2001. She has exhibited throughout the United States and abroad. Those include the Studio Museum in Harlem, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Science Museum, London; Smithsonian Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio, ITAU Cultural Institute, São Paulo; National Museum of Art, Reina Sofía, Madrid and the 10th Havana Biennial. She is a recipient of numerous awards and residencies including the Studio Museum in Harlem Artist-in Residence Program in New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, Crafts 2002 and Photography 2008; Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2002, Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant 2002 and 2008; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Workspace Program, 2009, and Anonymous Was A Woman Award, 2019. Collections include the Smithsonian Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio, Lowe Art Museum. Her work has been reviewed by Forbes, Art Forum, ArtNews, Cultured Magazine to name a few. Her book, Elia Alba, The Supper Club (Hirmer 2019), critically acclaimed by The New York Times, brings together artists, scholars and performers of diasporic cultures, through photography, food and dialogue to examine race and culture in the United States. She lives and works in the Bronx and is Artist-in-Residence at The Andrew Freeman Home. She is guest curator for El Museo del Barrio’s current exhibition, Estamos Bien: La Trienal 20/21 and a recipient of the Latinx Artist Fellowship.Specialties: Photography, Sculpture, Video