Andrea Alkalay

b. 1965, Argentina. Buenos Aires-based. Andrea Alkalay is a visual artist with a degree in Industrial Design (UBA). Trained in art-photography, she is drawn to materials and visual forms as tools and symbols and uses photography as a way of thinking, looking for the poetic and political potential that arises from the observation. She is interested in the discrepancy between what we see and what we know, where these qualities contradict each other and coexist simultaneously. Her work expands the limits of photography into other disciplines to create a multiplicity of visions. In 2018, she won the Light Festival Argentina, leading to a solo exhibition at the Fine Arts Museum of San Juan, and exhibited in Chile, Mexico, and the 8th Photography Biennale Tucumán. She won the Latin American Professional Award (2021) from the World Photography Organisation, was a finalist at Head On Photo Festival (Sydney), and exhibited at DongGang Museum of Photography (Korea). In 2022, Alkalay received The Kingdom Photography Grant and participated in the Al Balad Art Residency, organised by the Saudi Ministry of Culture. In 2023, she had exhibitions in Argentina including 'Puzzles' (Bienal Sur), 'Brief History of Eternity' (Recoleta Cultural Centre), 'Cities, Dream, and Dystopia' (CCK Cultural Centre), 'Unveiled Landscapes' at OdA Gallery, UADE awards; and internationally in Kranj foto fest and the RAK festival in the UAE. In 2024, she was commissioned as a master mentor in the Saudi Visual Arts programme after being granted the Intermix Art Residency in Riyadh. She exhibited at Hafez Gallery Riyadh, at Park Pecno Kanal Gallery in Slovenia, at the Larreta Museum of Buenos Aires. Her works have been included in the following publications: Aesthetica Magazine, Lenscratch, Fresh Eyes, Artdoc, ArtFluent, Float, PHMuseum, Coleccionismo Contemporáneo, and more. Amalgama exhibited her work in: ‘Opposing Fictions’ at Koppel X, Piccadilly Circus (2022).