Alejandro Macias is a visual artist whose work examines identity, place, and the socio-political landscape through a Mexican-American lens. Raised along the U.S.-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas, Macias draws from personal and regional histories to explore themes of assimilation, migration, and cultural hybridity. His practice integrates traditional rendering, abstraction, and multi-media approaches, often using the human figure as a central point of his practice.
Macias’s work has been featured in New American Paintings, Southwest Contemporary, and the nationally traveling exhibitions Icons and Symbols of the Borderland, Soy de Tejas, and Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way.
His recent honors include the 2023 Lehmann Emerging Artist Award from the Phoenix Art Museum and the Artist2Artist Art Matters Fellowship. He has held artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, MASS MoCA, the Wassaic Project, CALA Alliance in Phoenix, and the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency in New York, among others.
Macias has presented solo exhibitions at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Presa House Gallery, Tucson Museum of Art, and LatchKey Gallery in New York.
His paintings are part of the permanent collections at the Phoenix Art Museum, El Paso Museum of Art, Tucson Museum of Art, Mexic-Arte Museum, and Newark Museum of Art.
He currently serves as Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Arizona in Tucson.