Biography 

Alejandro Barbosa (Argentina) 

Alejandro Barbosa is an Argentinian visual artist and curator based in Vancouver. Alejandro completed a professional diploma in photography (2010) at the Escuela de Fotografía Creativa in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After migrating to Canada in 2018, Alejandro completed a bachelor’s degree in fine arts, majoring in photography, at Concordia University in Montreal. Immediately after, Alejandro pursued graduate studies, completing a master of fine arts in visual arts at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Barbosa has received many awards and grants, including the 2018 Rolo Beny Scholarship at the University of British Columbia. 

Alejandro Barbosa’s studio work uses photographs and archival images to extract details from the main context to be recontextualized in a new composition surveying time and objects. Alejandro has showcased in the solo exhibition The Stain Are We Ourselves (2018) at the Closet Gallery online streaming project. His work has been part of the collective exhibitions UBC Master of Fine Art Exhibition 2020: One Sentence Too Many, One Word Too Few (2020) at the Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and Moral Ambiguity (2019) at the AHVA Gallery at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.