ALESSANDRA ABBALLE

Alessandra Abballe is an image-based artist, writer, researcher, and educator currently living, working, and making as an uninvited guest in Tkaronto/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. They are interested in investigating notions of identity, memory, and (non)belonging through an attunement to the leaky, elusive, inconclusive, and often sticky qualities of affect.

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 thesis was supported by a Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC).

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FRAGMENTS

Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, March 2026.

Studio fragments and photos from my time at as an Undisciplined Residency cohort member.

Installation view. Anthology (group show), Top Top Projects, 2025. Left: Wang Zi. Right: Jules D. Mills.

Exhibition pamphlets created by Jasmine Yangqingqing Yu.

Capture Photography Festival, 2023.

Kwantlen Polytechnic University, 2023.

Student work from an alternative photographic processes class where students experimented with making cyanotypes, anthotypes, and chlorophyll printing.