Alessandra Abballe is an image-based artist currently living and working 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. While rooted in photographic practices, their work often 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 funded by a Canada Graduate Scholarship from SSHRC.
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