ALESSANDRA ABBALLE
Alessandra Abballe is an artist, writer, researcher, and educator currently living, working, and making on Treaty 13 Territory (Toronto).
Rooted in photography and image-based practices, Alessandra’s work extends to an engagement with personal and public archives, video, needlework, textiles, and ceramics. Most recently, they have been interested in experimenting with obfuscating and illegible visual tactics in their work as both aesthetic praxis and a generative means of refusal. They are keen on mining sticky or muddy feelings and seeing what can be done with them.
Alessandra’s work has exhibited nationally, including in Capture Photography Festival and CONTACT Photography Festival. They hold a BFA in Photography Studies from Toronto Metropolitan University's School of Image Arts (2018) and an MFA in Visual Arts from York University (2025) where their research was supported by a Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC).
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Rooted in photography and image-based practices, Alessandra’s work extends to an engagement with personal and public archives, video, needlework, textiles, and ceramics. Most recently, they have been interested in experimenting with obfuscating and illegible visual tactics in their work as both aesthetic praxis and a generative means of refusal. They are keen on mining sticky or muddy feelings and seeing what can be done with them.
Alessandra’s work has exhibited nationally, including in Capture Photography Festival and CONTACT Photography Festival. They hold a BFA in Photography Studies from Toronto Metropolitan University's School of Image Arts (2018) and an MFA in Visual Arts from York University (2025) where their research was supported by a Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC).
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