Alessandra Abballe is an image-based artist and arts educator currently living, working, and making as an uninvited guest in Tkaronto/Toronto, the traditional and ancestral territory of the Anishinaabe, including Mississaugas of the Credit, Chippewa, Haudenosaunee, and Wendat peoples.
Abballe's work investigates notions of identity and belonging, probing the leaky, elusive, inconclusive, and often sticky qualities of affect. While rooted in photographic practices, their work includes archival and vernacular imagery, video, text, needlework, and ceramics. Abballe holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography Studies from Toronto Metropolitan University's School of Image Arts (2018) and is currently an MFA, Visual Arts candidate at York University (2025) where their thesis research is supported by a Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC).
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