Alejandro Cardenas (b. 1977, Santiago, Chile) completed his BFA at the Cooper Union School of Art in 2000. Before becoming a full time studio painter, Cardenas had a successful career as a multimedia artist, working in illustration, graphic design, and videography. For over a decade he served as the lead textile designer and art director for the influential fashion label Proenza Schouler. He was also a founding member of Lansing-Dreiden, a New York-based transdisciplinary art collective that produced musical albums, a literary journal, and artworks. Reviews of his art and design projects have appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, and Another Magazine. Cardenas currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Alejandro Cardenas
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Alejandro Cardenas, Sea Krait Gerwalk mode, 2021
Lacquered aluminum
100 x 60 x 4 cm; 39 3/8 x 23 5/8 x 1 5/8 in
Base: 30 x 50 x 2 cm; 11 3/4 x 19 3/4 x 3/4 in -
Alejandro Cardenas, Sea Krait Gerwalk mode, 2021
Lacquered aluminum
100 x 60 x 4 cm; 39 3/8 x 23 5/8 x 1 5/8 in
Base: 30 x 50 x 2 cm; 11 3/4 x 19 3/4 x 3/4 in -
Alejandro Cardenas, Continuous Sentry and Sea Krait, 2021
Lacquered aluminum
180 x 110 x 4 cm; 70 7/8 x 43 1/4 x 1 5/8 in
Base: 90 x 60 x 2 cm; 35 3/8 x 23 5/8 x 3/4 in -
Alejandro Cardenas, The doorway, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
101.6 x 81.3 cm
40 x 32 in -
Alejandro Cardenas, Atacamite Hall 4, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
101.6 x 81.3 cm
40 x 32 in -
Alejandro Cardenas, Atacamite Hall 1, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
101.6 x 81.3 cm
40 x 32 in -
Alejandro Cardenas, Atacamite Hall 3, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
101.6 x 81.3 cm
40 x 32 in -
Alejandro Cardenas, Atacamite Hall 2, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
101.6 x 81.3 cm
40 x 32 in -
Alejandro Cardenas, If it’s just surface, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
101.6 x 81.3 cm
40 x 32 in -
Alejandro Cardenas, If it strikes, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
101.6 x 81.3 cm
40 x 32 in
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Alejandro Cardenas, The tail of If, 2020
121.9 x 91.4 cm
48 x 36 in -
Alejandro Cardenas, If it's nothing, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
91.4 x 121.9 cm
36 x 48 in -
Alejandro Cardenas, If this were to continue, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
121.9 x 165.1 cm
48 x 65 in -
Alejandro Cardenas, If anything could be learned, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
121.9 x 165.1 cm
48 x 65 in -
Alejandro Cardenas, View from the Western Terrace, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
122.1 x 91.6 cm
48 1/8 x 36 1/8 in -
Alejandro Cardenas, The Return, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
122.1 x 91.6 cm
48 1/8 x 36 1/8 in -
Alejandro Cardenas, The house at Los Lagos, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
122.1 x 91.6 cm
48 1/8 x 36 1/8 in
Exhibitions
Selected press
- Mariana Bettinelli, "Alexandria, and exhibition by artist Alejandro Cardenas, Trendland, February 23, 2021 — 1.2 MB
- Cristina Samper, " Discover the latest work of Alejandro Cardenas, this time at Almine Rech New York, Art of Choice, January 31, 2021 — 1.2 MB
- Alana Pockros, "Imagining the Future Amid Alejandro Cardenas’s Profound, Brooding Canvases", Hyperallergic, January 27, 2021 — 830.0 kB
- Sasha Bogojev, "Alejandro Cardenas' "Alexandria" @ Almine Rech in NYC", Jaxtapoz Magazine, January 22, 2021 — 1.5 MB