Alejandro Pintado

Born in Mexico City in 1973, Alejandro Pintado studied painting at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado La Esmeralda, and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Goldsmiths College, University of London.
He has been awarded a grant from the National System of Art Creators (FONCA, 2010-2013), a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Skowhegan program (both in 2007), the Centennial Painting Award at Zona MACO (2012), the special prize at Arte Laguna (Venice, 2010), and first place at the Miradas de Tijuana Biennial (2013).

Among the venues where he has had solo exhibitions are the Museo Nacional de San Carlos, the Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), and the Galería Arróniz in Mexico City, as well as at the Hamiltonian Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Post Box Gallery in London, and the ICM in Berlin.

His work fuses charcoal reliefs on linen canvases with contemporary interventions in fluorescent acrylic, spray paint, and neon, exploring temporal tensions between past, present, and future through color as a temporal symbol.