Heavily influenced by Polish-French modern artist Balthus, Alessandra Acierno loves creating stories that fall in a morally and visually ambiguous zone. As with the Balthus’ work, the viewer is complicit in Acierno’s morally questionable scenes. She creates fleeting encounters or charged interactions occurring on the border between states. Within the boundaries of her work, once-familiar objects and places shift or assume strange qualities.

Alessandra Acierno was born in 1994 in Charleston, SC, and lives in Israel. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD (2016) and her Master of Fine Arts at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Tel Aviv, Israel (2021).

She has exhibited her work at MAMA Projects in New York, NY; Maya Gallery in Tel Aviv, Israel; Tagli Gallery in London, UK; Afula Gallery in Tel Aviv, Israel; and elsewhere.

She was awarded 2nd Place in the Jackson’s Art Prize, an Elizabeth Greenshields grant, and a Star Foundation scholarship.