Alejandro Loureiro Lorenzo
Assistant Teaching Professor of Art (Photography)
al1480@camden.rutgers.edu
www.alejandroloureiro.com
BIOGRAPHY
Alejandro is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Photography and the head of the Photography program at Rutgers University, Camden. He is a visual artist who divides his time between New York City, Philadelphia, and Galicia, Spain. In Galicia, Alejandro is working on a long-term project related to memory, which aims to explore the intersection of personal and collective memory in the context of cultural and historical narratives. His work has been displayed in international exhibitions alongside artists such as Ai Weiwei, Huma Bhabha, Tom Friedman, and other emerging and contemporary artists.
In addition to his studio practice, Alejandro has presented part of his photographic research on AI generative technologies at the Royal Photographic Society in 2023. This research explores the interaction of assumed perceptual attributes with new AI-generated images integrated into all aspects of image-making, aiming to contribute to a multi-layered critical interpretation of current issues of interpretation coexisting with established ways of seeing.
His scholarly focus spans from the 18th-century Enlightenment to the late 20th century, specializing in the emergence of minimalism, postminimalism/anti-form conceptual art, and neo-geo/pictures generation and their impact on the contemporary art market in the 21st century.
Alejandro is finalizing his doctoral dissertation on Hudson, the owner of the gallery Feature Inc., who was Alejandro’s mentor and friend in his early years in New York City. Hudson’s invitation for Alejandro to work at Feature Inc. led him to relocate to the United States permanently. The dissertation serves as a case study exploring exhibition-making as a form of resistance and activism, situating Hudson’s work and Feature Inc. within the changes in the art market from the emergence of conceptual art in the 1970s to the present day. Alejandro’s personal and professional relationship with Hudson provides a unique perspective for analyzing the interpretation of Hudson’s legacy, to which he devotes his scholarship.
His research investigates the increasing support of revisionist, disruptive practices by institutions as part of developing new schemes and ever-evolving cultural strategies that seek to retool traditional activist/countercultural practices as a repository of institutional tropes. He has lived and worked in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.