Alejandro Bellizzi

Alejandro Bellizzi is an artist and writer based in Columbus, Ohio. His Father was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but moved to Colombia to avoid living in a military dictatorship and his Mother hails from Bogota, Colombia. But then they fled the drug-violence and settled for Kansas. In hindsight, they should have moved to Canada. Alejandro’s parents compensated for that mistake by supporting his immediate and unending passion for art. As a child, Alejandro read books voraciously, married his cousin, and then died of tuberculosis.

He earned a Bachelors in Fine Arts and Minor in Creative writing from the Columbus College of Art & Design and will never recover financially. A gallery in the gentrified art scene of Miami, Florida hired Alejandro to curate exhibitions, but they let him go as soon as he ran out of Adderall.

Alejandro returned to his Mother’s home where he’d squander the best years of his life and get diagnosed with autism. From the shop-studio in his basement, he continues to create, and occasionally engage the Columbus art community with exhibitions and poetry. His ongoing body of work explores mental-illness, grief, abandonment, cultural-displacement, and the purpose of imagination in a status-driven world.