Alejandro De La Guerra is a multidisciplinary artist, drummer, and teaching artist. Born in Managua, Nicaragua, he lives and works between Managua and New York City.
De La Guerra addresses the aestheticization of power, collective memory, and monumental languages of public space, using Performance, Sculptures, Video, Masks, and Relational aesthetics, through an exploration of violence and healing, art-activism, and, relations of power on human relationships.
De La Guerra was part of the first art generation of Space for Artistic Research and Reflection (EspIRA). He is a co-founding member of the cultural zone of temporary autonomy for Nicaragua and Central America Malagana-Mácula, and has participated in three Central American Biennials. Alejandro been participated in residencies at the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation; Rosekill Art-Farm, Residency Unlimited RU, with the support of Artistic Freedom Initiative AFI, Westbeth, New York; The Artist Protection Fund with the support of SFA and El Instituto of UCONN; URRA in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Câmera Sete Casa da Fotografia de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil; and RAPACES in Central America.
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