About — Alejandro Medina

Alejandro Medina (b. 1995, Guatemala) is an interdisciplinary artist and architect whose work explores emergence—how complex behaviors, forms, and systems arise through relationships and interactions. Drawing from ecological and systems-based perspectives, Medina develops rule-based frameworks, generative instructions, and protocols that allow works to evolve through processes of iteration, interaction, and instability. Rather than fully determining an outcome, these frameworks create conditions in which unexpected forms and behaviors can emerge, shifting the work as it is made and as it encounters different contexts.

Medina holds a Master of Science (MS) in Art, Culture, and Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) from the University of Southern California. He has exhibited internationally, with solo exhibitions at La Nueva Fábrica (Antigua, Guatemala) and MIT’s Wiesner Gallery (Cambridge, USA), as well as group exhibitions across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. His work has been recognized through numerous fellowships, grants, and residencies; including support from MIT’s Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) and residencies at Salmon Creek Farm, Cité Internationale des Arts, La Nueva Fábrica, and Fondazione Pistoletto amongst others.