I work within the framework of geometric abstraction, and I investigate the web of connections between painting and the spatial context. Each project is inseparable from the specific space in which it is inserted in each case. The same work can be displayed in multiple different ways, sometimes exploring untypical parts of the wall. I often work in series and with a multiplicity of canvases, which prevents the gaze from converging on a fixed point. And I work systematically with lines, which produces an effect of continuity and expands the pictorial surface, blurring the boundaries between the work and the wall.
Alejandra Barreda (Buenos Aires, 1958)
She lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Education
Graduated from the “Prilidiano Pueyrredón” National School of Fine Arts, specializing in Painting (Buenos Aires)
Graduate in Visual Arts from the National University of the Arts.
Artist residencies in France Sitio Gingko (Troyes) and Château Blacons (Mirabel et Blacons)
Individual expositions
2025 – Intemperie, Praxis, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2023 – Secuencia Abierta, Alejandro Bustillo gallery, Banco Nación, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022 – Iridiscente, Praxis, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2021 – Continuous transformation of abstract space, individual, Praxis, New York, USA
2020 – El sonido del color, Praxis, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017 – Variable pulsante, Praxis, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2014 – Geometría extendida, Ro Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Group exhibitions
2023 – Línea y vibración, Josefina Robirosa y artistas de la colección, Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires, Curator: Rodrigo alonso, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2021 – Neo Post 50 años de pintura geométrica en Argentina, Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires, Curator: Rodrigo Alonso, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017 – Summer show, Praxis New York Gallery, USA
2016 – Cromo Sapiens, MACsur, Lanús, Curator: Olga Correa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2015 – Monochrome Undone, Irvine, Curator: Cecilia Fajardo Hill, California, USA
2013 – Gerometría al límite, Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013 – Geometría: desvíos y desmesuras, Osde Foundation, Curator: Danielle Perret, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Awards and distinctions
2023 – Selection in the UADE National Painting Competition, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022 – 15th Bancor Painting Prize, Córdoba, Argentina
2020 – XIII Banco Central National Painting Prize, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2019 – Third prize at the 3rd MACsur Prize, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017 – Special mention from the jury, 106th National Hall of Visual Arts, Painting, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016 – Banco Nación Visual Arts Award. Buenos Aires, Argentina
2015 – Mention in the Federal Painting Prize Biennial, CFI, Argentina
2014 – 2nd Prize at the 3rd Areatec Visual Arts Biennial, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2014 – 103rd National Hall of Visual Arts, Painting, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2014 – 2nd Prize in the 9th UADE National Painting Competition, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013 – XVII Federico Jorge Klemm Prize for Visual Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina