Alessandra Sequiera

Alessandra Sequeira works across painting, textile and large-scale installation, producing bodies of work that use thread, ink and branching organic form to map trauma, repair, and the slow reorganisation of the nervous system after rupture. Trained in graphic design at the Universidad Veritas, her practice has expanded across four decades to encompass sculpture, embroidery and monumental spatial installation.

Her exhibition record spans Costa Rica, Europe and Latin America. She has shown at the Museo Dr. Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia and the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo (MADC), where her 2024 solo exhibition Re-Conexión consolidated her reputation as a materially rigorous artist working at the intersection of biological form and psychological experience. Earlier series — Sinapsis (2013) and Interconexiones (2016) — established the formal language she continues to develop: dense, branching structures drawn from biological and botanical systems, executed in ink on canvas and elaborated through textile intervention.

Her most recent body of work, Enraizada – Donde el Miedo se Desvanece (2026), presented at the Calderón Guardia Museum, maps the arc of psychological rupture and repair through canvases made during and following her engagement with EMDR therapy, alongside a monumental woven installation occupying the museum’s main hall.

Since her first solo exhibition, Aliento de Vida, in 2007. she has shown at Colorida Art Gallery in Lisbon, Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi in Venice, and the Cayalá Foundation in Guatemala, and her work entered the permanent collection of the Museum of the 5th Triennial of Riga, Latvia. She has been recognised with the Dante Alighieri International Award at the Biennale Peschiera del Garda and the Caravaggio International Experience Award in Rome.

Why We Love This Artist
Alessandra puts so much of herself into her work that standing in front of it in the flesh feels like a genuinely intimate experience — raw, visceral and deeply poetic. She works across an extraordinary range of materials, from natural minerals to thread to ink, finding in each one a different way to map interior struggle onto a surface. Her work speaks of universal truths, and she does so with an honesty that is rare.