BIO

Alonso Galue (Venezuelan, b. 1994, Chicago-based) is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and performer whose work explores migration, labor, and displacement through painting, sculpture, and immersive actions. As a curator at Agitator Gallery, he fosters artist-led initiatives that challenge dominant narratives and amplify immigrant voices.

His performance The Weeping Nation transformed Logan Square into a living stage as he walked the streets wearing a towering six-foot mask of a grieving mother searching for her lost children—an urgent reflection on global border conflicts and forced displacement. In I Am Here, You Are There, he reconfigures migrant care packages into fragmented portraits, mirroring the divided condition of refugees and exiles. After its Chicago exhibition, the boxes were filled with aid and shipped to Venezuela, where they were restaged, bearing the physical scars of their journey.

Galue’s work has been exhibited at the Chicago Cultural Center, Elastic Arts, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Agitator Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Zulia, and the Museum of Modern Art Mérida, among other institutions across the U.S. and Latin America. He was awarded the Valencia Painting Prize and has held residencies at Mana Contemporary in association with Juxtapoz Magazine.

Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Jerry Saltz has described his work as “a strong voice of the future.” Through his art and curatorial work, Galue continues to create spaces for critical dialogue on migration and identity, bridging borders through immersive and socially engaged practices.