About Me
My statement
My practice explores the image as a spatial, perceptual entity rather than a flat surface. I create hybrid works that operate between painting and sculpture — expanded images that unfold across three dimensions and inhabit the viewer’s physical space.
Driven by a phenomenological approach, my work investigates how memory, imagination, and attention shape our experience of reality. I am drawn to moments of visual ambiguity: partial views, peripheral spaces, and images that resist full disclosure. These thresholds become sites where realism and abstraction meet, and where perception remains unsettled.
I combine traditional fine art techniques with digital processes such as 3D modelling, photogrammetry, VR, and generative systems. Through this miscegenation of methods, the image becomes malleable matter — fluid yet coherent — capable of carrying non-linear narratives through space and time.
Ultimately, my work invites a pause: a moment of presence within a culture of distraction, where images are not consumed, but entered.
Biography
Alejandro Escobar is a Colombian-born, London-based artist whose sculptural paintings explore impermanence, perception, and the embodied experience of contemporary life. His work draws on phenomenological ideas, using material and digital form to reflect on how we encounter the world through layered sensations, where memory, presence, and imagination continuously overlap.
With over 18 years of practice, Escobar’s multidisciplinary approach bridges traditional fine art and emerging technologies, combining painting and sculpture with photogrammetry, 3d modelling, animation, virtual reality, and generative AI. His works invite viewers into immersive perceptual dialogues — not just to see, but to feel, remember, and reflect.
He holds a Master’s in Fine Art Digital from the University of the Arts London and has trained at the Art Students League of New York, London Fine Art Studios, and under master painters in Colombia. Escobar has exhibited internationally, with solo and group exhibitions in London, New York, and Medellín, including presentations at the Tate Modern, the Colombian Consulate in London, and the Museum of Modern Art in Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
In 2017, he was awarded Artist of the Year by ARTS SU at UAL. His practice continues to evolve through a dialogue between tradition and innovation, using tactile and digital processes to investigate how art can illuminate the lived complexity of time, attention, and the felt experience of being.
Education
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Portrait workshop- Master Luca Indraccolo – London, UK – 2023
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Foundation Course – London Fine Art Studios -London, UK – 2023
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MFA Fine Art Digital – University of The Arts London – London, UK 2015 – 2017
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Painting lessons – Art Students League, Master Costa Vavagiakis – New York, USA 2013
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Drawing lessons – El Castillo Museum, Master Oscar Jaramillo – Medellín, Colombia – 2012 – 2013.
Selected Exhibitions
Solo shows
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Oct 2017 Solo show, META-IMAGES – Colombian consulate. London, UK
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Mar 2015 Solo exhibition “usted no sabe quién soy yo”. Medellín, Colombia
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Sep 2013 Solo exhibition, Déjà vu Boutique. NYC, USA
Collective shows
Commercial Galleries
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February 2025, The Human Element, Espacio Gallery. London, UK
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October 2024, Art in the Age of AI, 54 The Gallery. London, UK
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July 2024, Green and Stone Gallery. London, UK
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Apr 2017, Xhibit – Art Bermondsey Project Space. London, UK
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Jul 2016, Lubomirov / Angus-Huges Gallery. London, UK
Museums & Public Institutions
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Feb 2017, Tate Exchange Program, Tate Modern. London, UK
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Nov 2014, Ptro Jose Luis Arroyavea Library. Medellín, Colombia
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Oct 2014, Museum of Modern Art. Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
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Jul 2014, Envigado’s mayoralty. Envigado, Colombia
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May 2014, La Barquereña Cultural House. Sabaneta, Colombia
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Nov 2013, El Castillo Museum. Medellín, Colombia
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Nov 2012, El Castillo Museum. Medellín, Colombia
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Nov 2011, El Castillo Museum. Medellín, Colombia
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Mar 2011, Plazarte – Medellín, Colombia
Biennials & Cultural Festivals
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May 2018, International Image Festival. Manizales, Colombia.
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Oct 2011, Third Biennale of Plastic Arts. Medellín, Colombia
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Oct 2010, Visual Arts Salon Antioquia. Medellín, Colombia
Academic / University Exhibitions
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October 2024, Technicians Exhibition, London College of Communication. London, UK
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April 2018, Drawn Beyond- Wimbledon College of Arts. London, UK
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Jul 2016 MA Interim exhibition, Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK
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Sep 2013, EAFIT University. Medellín, Colombia
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Aug 2011, ITM educational institution. Medellín, Colombia
Fairs
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November 2024 Wimbledon Art Fair – London, UK
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May 2024 Wimbledon Art Fair – London, UK
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November 2023 Wimbledon Art Fair – London, UK
Awards / Grants
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Jun 2017 Artist of the Year award, ARTS SU Societies awards – UAL. London, UK
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Oct 2010 Second place award, self-taught category, Visual Arts Salon. Medellín, Colombia.
Residencies
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Mar 2018 Exploratorio – Explora Park. Medellín, Colombia
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Apr 2017 Wimbledon College of Arts. London, UK
Publications
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Sep 2017 Interartive Magazine – Challenging the flatness of the image
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Nov 2015 Interartive Magazine – Mestizaje Físico Digital