Born and raised in Brownsville, Texas, Alejandro Macias creates art that mirrors the division he felt living along the U.S.-Mexico border. Macias challenges both traditional and contemporary approaches, using figurative and abstract techniques as well as multimedia to capture the duality of his identity. He has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson; Château d’Orquevaux, France; and The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts. He was the recipient of the Lehmann Emerging Artist award, which included a two-person exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum, and has had solo shows at Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, Texas, and Presa House Gallery, San Antonio. He is currently Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Arizona School of Art in Tucson, where he lives and works.

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Alejandro Macias, nacido en 1987, en Brownsville, Texas, crea obras que reflejan la división que sintió al vivir junto a la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos. Macias desafía los acercamientos tanto tradicionales como contemporáneos al usar arte multimedia, figurativo y abstracto para captar la dualidad de su identidad. Ha sido artista residente en el Vermont Studio Center, Johnson; el Château d’Orquevaux, Francia, y The Studios del Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams. Recibió el Lehmann Emerging Artist Award, que ofrecía una exposición dual en el Phoenix Art Museum, y ha tenido muestras individuales en el Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, Texas, y la Presa House Gallery, San Antonio. Actualmente es profesor asociado de pintura y dibujo en la University of Arizona School of Art en Tucson, donde vive y trabaja.