Elia Alba

Multidisciplinary artist Elia Alba’s book, Elia Alba, The Supper Club (2019), brings together artists, scholars, and performers of diasporic cultures, through photography, food, and dialogue, to examine race and culture in the United States.  Alba received her BA in 1994 from Hunter College, where she completed a special honors curriculum for interdisciplinary studies and minored in studio art. A place in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program followed, as well as a residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem. A Bronx based artist, Alba is an Artist-in-Residence at the Andrew Freeman Home, and was a guest curator for El Museo del Barrio’s “Estamos Bien: La Trienal” in 2020-2021.

Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries world-wide, including the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Science Museum, London; Smithsonian Museum of Art; El Museo del Barrio; ITAU Cultural Institute, São Paulo; National Museum of Art, Reina Sofía, Madrid, and the 10th Havana Biennial. She is a recipient of numerous awards and residencies including the Studio Museum in Harlem Artist-in Residence Program, two New York Foundation for the Arts Grants, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, two Joan Mitchell Foundation Grants, a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Workspace Program, and Anonymous Was A Woman Award. Her work can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio, and Lowe Art Museum.