Alejandra Aguilar Caballero is a Mexican visual artist based in Oslo, Norway. In her practice she moves freely between drawing, traditional printmaking, installation, artist publications and graphic narrative. Through her work she creates unique storytelling approaches that explore personal and collective memory, identity, unexpected encounters with nature, and the stories of her everyday life.

 

Alejandra holds a Bachelor degree (Honours) in Visual Arts from Facultad de Artes y Diseño of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2010-2014), and a MFA in Medium and Material Based Art, specializing in Printmaking & Drawing from Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2019-2021). She obtained the Scholarship for International Postgraduate Studies FONCA-CONACYT (2019-2021).

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She has been recipient of the Stipend from Norske Grafikere Fond, the working grant from Norsk Illustrasjonsfond, One-year grant from Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond (BKV), Establishment grant from Oslo Kommunes, Grafill project support, amongst others.

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She has been nominated for the QSPA Inspirational Award (Kjell Nupen Memorial Grant) and the KoMASK European Masters Printmaking Award. In 2021, she was one of three winners of the Printmaking Today State of the Art Student Prize.

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Her work has been selected in national and international competitions and biennials, such as: International Print Triennial Krakow (Krakow, Poland, 2024), ARTiJA 2nd International Art Biennial (Kragujevac, Serbia, 2020), 8th International Triennial of Graphic Arts Sofia 2019 (Sofia, Bulgaria, 2019), XI Bienal Nacional de Pintura y Grabado "Alfredo Zalce" (Michoacán, México, 2018), Pacific States Biennial North American Printmaking Exhibition (Hawai, USA, 2018), XXXVIII Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven (Aguascalientes, Mexico, 2018), and the XI Bienal de Pintura "Joaquín Clausell" (Campeche, Mexico, 2015).

 

She is member of Norske Grafikere (Norwegian Printmakers), Tegnerforbundet (The Drawing Association), and Norske Billedkunstnere (Norwegian Visual Artists). She has participated in collective exhibitions in Mexico, Norway, Spain, Poland, Italy, Czech Republic and Bulgaria, amongst others. She has also presented her work in multiple solo exhibitions in Mexico and Norway. In 2021 she was commissioned to make a site-specific artwork for the exhibition "U/synlig – hverdagsrasisme i Norge" inside the MINO building at the Holocaust - Senteret in Oslo, Norway.