ALEJANDRO CAIAZZA

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Born in Santa Fé, Argentina in 1972, Alejandro Caiazza has Italian roots and was raised in Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela. He trained in architecture and fine arts at José María Vargas University in Caracas. His first solo exhibition as a fine artist took place in April 1999 at the Sala de Arte de Sidor in Ciudad Guayana.

In 2000, Caiazza moved to Paris, where he lived and worked for a decade. During this period, his abstract practice emerged through a limited palette of black, white, and gray. Black symbolized raw emotion, white represented reason and structure, and gray served as a balancing force between the two. This restrained color language became a vehicle for expressing his inner tensions.

By 2010, he developed a more universal visual language, blending symbols, traces, figures, and color to communicate shared human emotions and sensations. That same year, he exhibited at Lavatoio Contumaciale in Rome.

Caiazza currently lives and works in New York City. His paintings often appear whimsical and playful at first glance, yet reveal a darker psychological undercurrent. He creates childlike, primitive figures inspired by children’s drawings—characters that may include skulls, clowns, criminals, and madmen. These distorted, grotesque forms feel absurd and unsettling, reflecting emotions drawn from daily life and personal experience.

He works with acrylic, oil bar, charcoal, and spray paint, frequently incorporating mixed media on cardboard, canvas, and wood. His style aligns with art brut and neo-expressionism, influenced by artists such as Jean Dubuffet, Jonathan Meese, Georg Baselitz, Willem de Kooning, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and A.R. Penck.