Alejandro Piñeiro Bello

b. 1990

Alejandro Piñeiro Bello was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1990. He graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts, San Alejandro, La Habana, Cuba. He has participated in major public projects during the Havana Biennials in 2012, 2015, and 2019. His works have also been shown in exhibitions by KDR in Miami, FL, and by Pace Galleries in London, Hong Kong, and Seoul, Korea. His most recent group exhibitions include Black Earth Rising, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; 50–90: The Tenth Anniversary of The Long Museum, The Long Museum, Shanghai. He was awarded grants from The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, and The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New York, in collaboration with Pioneer Works, New York. He was a resident at the Vermont Studio Center in 2022, and in 2023, he was selected for the artist-in-residence program at the Rubell Museum. Recent exhibitions of his work include Future Past Perfect: Escaping Paradise, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (2023); En El Arco Del Caribe, KDR, Miami, Florida (2023–2024), and Alejandro Piñeiro Bello, Rubell Museum, Miami, Florida (2023–2204). His work is held in important collections such as The Brownstone Foundation, Paris; Chrysler Museum Collection, Norfolk, Virginia; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami,FL; Marquez Art Projects, Miami, FL; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California, CA; NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL; Rubell Museum, Miami,FL; and The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation Collection, New York, NY. In addition, this year he will unveil a new commission at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid, as part of the Blanca and Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection program. He currently lives and works in Miami, Florida.