Alberto Keossian

Alberto Keossian (b. 1994) is an interdisciplinary artist and arts organizer, of Mexican and Armenian-Uruguayan descent, from the San Fernando Valley. He evokes the unconscious presence of interconnectivity between bodies existing in space by reclaiming personal, familial, and ancestral traumas as themes in his work. Alberto received his AA in Three-Dimensional Design and AA-T in Studio Arts from Los Angeles Valley College and received his BA in Art from the University of California Los Angeles. He is a recipient of the 2020-21 UCLA Department of Art Undergraduate Scholarship Award and has exhibited his work locally, including MOTOR, the New Wight Gallery – UCLA, 2019 Venice Biennale – Nomad Pavilion, CalArts, Avenue 50 Studio, FM+ x Directory, and Los Angeles Valley College. Alberto is also a Founder and Director at MOTOR, an artist-run initiative exploring unconventional approaches to artistic presentation while embracing practices of temporality, modularity, and play. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.