Alina uses photography and sculpture to empower their collaborators in the LGBTQIA+ community. As they explore the social codes and cues within this group, they depict the common experiences of Queer individuals. Alina interweaves concepts of vulnerability, identity affirmation, balance and care within relationships, and found communities in their work. Alina’s delicacy when collaborating with friends and strangers shows their ability to create spaces that welcome authenticity of LGBTQIA+ experiences.
Often maneuvering between varying perspectives of viewers, Alina balances the shifting weight of representation, education, and normalization. Their photographs depict the ways that the LGBTQIA+ community wants to be seen leave a multidimensional impression on those that access their work. Alina is committed to generating ethical making processes and maintaining the comfort of their collaborators.
As a recent BFA Photography and Design graduate from Lesley University, Alina has earned the Lesley Art and Design's 2020 Photography Award and the 2022 EDIJ Rising Artist Award.
They have exhibited work in the Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Gallery 263, Gallery South, Panopticon Gallery, and Roberts Gallery. They are currently the Director’s Assistant at Gallery Kayafas, have taught at Lesley University and the Community Art Center, and helped pilot an Early College Program at Lesley University for
first-generation high school students.
first-generation high school students.