ALEXANDRA McCORMICK  


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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 the Colombian Ministry of Culture), 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, the Ministry of Culture, 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 ExhibitionsThe Future Holds Something For Us 
New York, USA
2025

Inter Medio Exhibit
Gallery Jano  
Curator Riesbri
Montreal, Canada
2025

Regarde 2024 
Curator eunice bélidor Montreal, Canada
2024

ArtBO, ArteVivo,
Artesanias de Colombia
Bogotá, Colombia

2024

ArtBO,
Programa Referentes
MAP.
Bogotá, Colombia
2023

Gilberto Alzate Foundation Encounter: Longings of
Observation and Listening Bogotá, Colombia
2022


Banco de la Republica,
Ires y venires
Museums Collection
Bogotá, Colombia.
2022

Los Nogales School.
Colombia Hall.
Bogotá, Colombia.

2019

Rincón Projects, Expanded Territories.
Bogotá, Colombia
2019

Elvira Moreno Gallery. In House.
Bogotá, Colombia

2019

Casa Cano Gallery.
Romance.
Bogotá, Colombia
2019

Million Art Fair, Mentors Program. Bogotá, Colombia.
2018

LA Gallery. Unfinished Variations. 
Bogotá, Colombia.
2013

Centennial Museum. Objetos de encuentro.
2012


Artistic ResidenciesDesjardin Atelier
Gallery Jano
Montreal, Canada.
2024

Ministry of Culture,
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.

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

Turba es una instalación de acuarela de 425 × 136 cm concebida como un libro expandido. La imagen de una planta carnívora, ampliada hasta convertirse en territorio, funciona como figura de migración y adaptación dentro de un ecosistema específico. A través del gesto de plegar y desplegar — activado también mediante video — la obra encarna procesos de desplazamiento y reconfiguración donde la vida y la muerte no aparecen como opuestos, sino como parte de un mismo ciclo vital en el que la fragilidad es una condición de la persistencia.

Turba
is a 425 × 136 cm watercolor installation conceived as an expanded book. The image of a carnivorous plant, enlarged until it becomes territory, functions as a figure of migration and adaptation within a specific ecosystem. Through the gesture of folding and unfolding — also activated through video — the work embodies processes of displacement and reconfiguration where life and death appear not as opposites, but as part of the same vital cycle in which fragility is a condition of persistence..


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Reading Water es un libro-pintura en acuarela de 360 × 220 cm que se despliega verticalmente, desde un reflejo donde se reconocen plantas y árboles hasta una figuración que se disuelve en remolinos y sedimentos. El agua es materia activa: gotas, veladuras y corrientes construyen la imagen en colaboración con su propia fuerza, mientras fragmentos de poemas de Jaspreet Singh sobre el movimiento del agua se integran al flujo — las letras se desplazan y participan del mismo sistema de circulación. El río aparece como figura arquetípica de migración y transformación: una presencia con la que se aprende a fluir, a adaptarse y a reconfigurarse..

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