Meet the artist

She began exhibiting her work in 2012 with Ineffable, a series later selected for the 2019 Bienal Contextos of the Fundación Simón I. Patiño. In 2021, she opened her own studio/gallery in La Paz, Bolivia—a space dedicated to artistic research, light, and landscape. Her work has since reached international audiences, including an exhibition and residency with the Tiberina Academy in Italy, where she further developed her visual language.

Her current projects—Pachas Inefables and Cuna Pachamama—expand her practice into interdisciplinary territory.

Pachas Inefables, created in collaboration with video artist Maura Velte and researcher Pablo Freudenthal, explores Andean cosmology, ecological perception, and speculative space-time through acrylic painting and 3D video installation. Acting as a sensorial cosmogram, the work invites audiences to reimagine planetary interconnection through the Andean notion of pacha.

Cuna Pachamama reflects a more intimate, speculative gesture. Inspired by Freudenthal’s research on high-altitude neonatal adaptation as an analogue for reproductive risk in space, the project combines painting and poetic narration to imagine incubators as cosmic cradles—bridging ancestral systems of care with contemporary biomedical technologies in high-altitude cities like La Paz.

Earlier series such as Ineffable and Deconstruction demonstrate her signature treatment of abstraction as a transformative force. While Ineffable explores the interplay of light and shadow, stillness and movement, Deconstruction reveals her control of the medium through gestural layering and tension between structure and spontaneity.

Now based in the United States, Andrea Quiroz Alba continues to develop new work that deepens her engagement with abstraction, cosmology, and emotional resonance—creating art that is not only seen, but felt.