Biography

Alexeis Reyes left Cuba as a political dissident, and lived in various countries. He received a BA in Visual Arts from Columbia University, and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California. As a multi-disciplinary artist, he experiments with various media, emphasizing the role of research to inform his process. He uses certain materials to explore the intersection between identity politics, gender, and Diasporic displacement in relation to history and culture. Through a visual grammar, his work examines how power structures affect corporeal expression, in order to negotiate a critical dialogue that questions ideologies subsumed under socio-political, cultural, economic, and historical discourses. He has collaborated with such artists as, Coco Fusco, Valerie Hammond, and Jon Kessler. Some of his past shows include, “DebtFair, Occupy Museums,” Whitney Biennial (2016). In 2019, he received the Félix-Gonzalez Torres Travel Grant, with which he began a life-long project that scrutinizes how Cuba legalized censorship.