Alessandra Expósito received her MFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers in 1998. She has been teaching art and woodshop at Allen-Stevenson for 15 years.
Alex’s work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions in New York City and beyond, including the Ambrosino Gallery (Miami, FL), the Academy of Arts and Letters (NYC), Mixed Greens (NYC), Schroeder Romero Gallery (NYC), Ronald Feldman Fine Art (NYC), and Art in General (NYC). Museum exhibitions include “Open House, Working in Brooklyn,” at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, “Miniatures” at the Jersey City Museum, “El Museo’s Biennial” at El Museo del Barrio in New York City, “Voces and Visiones” at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, and “21c Museum” (International Contemporary Art Foundation) in Louisville, Kentucky. She has been awarded residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the McDowell Colony, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Space Program.
In 2005, Alex received the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award and the Purchase Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2007, she received a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in sculpture. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Time Out and The Village Voice.