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 pertenecimanos 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
PLIEGUE | PLI | FOLD   (on going)
This series of watercolors folds into small-scale volumes and formats, similar to books. It also unfolds into large pictorial surfaces. I have been creating them in my new place, Montreal.

In this migration, where we fold and unfold ourselves into other territories, in Bogotá — the city where I lived for 43 years of my life — it was the mountain that embraced me. In Montreal, it is the river; it is the water that embraces me in this new land.

These watercolor books begin with photographic records and arrive at watercolor like water itself: something that receives and nourishes this new rooting.


Esta serie de acuarelas se pliega como un volumen de pequeñas dimensiones y formatos, similar a libros. También se despliega como grandes superficies pictóricas. Las he venido realizando en mi nuevo lugar, Montreal.

En esta migración, donde nos plegamos y desplegamos en otros territorios, en Bogotá —la ciudad donde viví 43 años de mi vida— era la montaña la que me abrazaba. En Montreal es el río; es el agua la que me abraza en esta nueva tierra.

Los libros de acuarelas parten de registros fotográficos y llegan a la acuarela como un agua que recibe y alimenta este nuevo enraizamiento.




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

VIDEO
Reading Water is a 360 × 220 cm watercolor book-painting that unfolds vertically, moving from a reflection where plants and trees are recognizable down to a figuration that dissolves into currents and sediment. Water is an active material: drops, glazes, and streams build the image in collaboration with their own force, while fragments of Jaspreet Singh's poems about the movement of water integrate into the flow — letters drift and participate in the same system of circulation. The river appears as an archetypal figure of migration and transformation: a presence through which one learns to flow, to adapt, and to reconfigure.






 Writing water, watercolor, Jaspreet Singh (poem) and video projection. Dimensions: variable. Watercolor 374 cm x 212 cm. 2026