Alejandro Pinzón
Visual Artist – Naïve Painting
Born in Charalá, Colombia, in 1971, Alejandro Pinzón is an internationally renowned visual artist with over 37 years of experience in naïve art. His work, characterized by a vibrant aesthetic and a deep connection to Colombian culture and identity, has been exhibited in prestigious galleries and museums worldwide.
His art is part of major collections, including the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) and the Latin American Museum of Naïve Art (MANLA) in Ecuador, which dedicated an exclusive room to his donated collection. Additionally, his artistic legacy has been recognized by the New York Public Library (NYPL), where he contributed ephemeral material related to his career.
Throughout his career, he has participated in numerous international exhibitions in cities such as Moscow, Monaco, Paris, and Poland, as well as prominent showcases in New York, including "Painted Dreams" at Artifact Projects and "Colombia Naif" at Global Vision Art, Brooklyn. His work has also been featured in major cultural events, such as the Día de Muertos celebration at the Queens Museum NY, where he presented his painting Catrina.
In recognition of his contribution to art and culture, Alejandro Pinzón was a recipient of the Creatives Rebuild New York grant (2022-2024), a prestigious program supporting artists in New York City.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I reflect in my artworks everything that makes me worry or surrounds me. I search the inspiration in the memories, in the experiences, stories, histories, music, customs of my town, where I grew up and my feelings of personal affections to anything else- My painting are the fruit of a deep daily work made during more than thirty years. I have found in this time away for materializing these memories in which I shape my own expression through the naïf or primitivist painting.

I apply the way in each artwork for this to be suitable to the motif that I pretend to release, now intimately related with a memory of good customs of the provincial dwellers of Colombia.

This is shaped in a composition built with picturesque strokes and ingenious shapes, they have in common my experience and personal evolution. I show in it a special interest for my memories as a revealing element of the events.

The purpose of the artwork through the creation process is interacting with the public in the simplest and understandable with the purpose that they complete or transform it with their interpretation and admiration. Finally, the audience thinks of direct intervention, an invitation to get to know my world and my closest intimacy.