Alejandro Acierto - Clarinet

alejandro t. acierto is an artist, musician, and curator whose work highlights the impact of colonial legacies across technologies, material culture, and the environment. Working within and across expanded forms of documentary, new media, creative scholarship, and sound, his works have been shown internationally at the Havana Biennial in Matanzas, Cuba, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), ISSUE (NYC), Radialsystem (Berlin), MCA Chicago, and others. He has also presented multimedia performance works for the Rapid Pulse Performance Art Festival (Chicago), High Zero Festival (Baltimore), the KANEKO (Omaha), and The Quarantine Concerts for ESS Chicago while his curatorial projects have been mounted at Stove Works (Chattanooga), Coop (Nashville), Tipton Gallery at East Tennessee State University (Johnson City), and the Brick Aux (Brooklyn).

acierto has participated in residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Banff Centre, High Concept Laboratories, LATITUDE, Chicago Artists' Coalition, and Digital Artist Residency. A 3Arts Awardee, he holds degrees from DePaul University (BM, Clarinet Performance & Composition), Manhattan School of Music (MM, Contemporary Performance), and University Illinois at Chicago (MFA, New Media Arts) and was an inaugural Artist in Residence for Critical Race Studies at Michigan State University. He has issued three solo records including we continue to sustain ourselves (Parlour Tapes+), Amid these traces (Prom Night Records), and those prone to dysphasiatic utterances (self released) and can be heard on other recordings as a contributor on New Focus, Carrier, and Albany Records among others.