highlights

  • knight foundation digital commissions series - locust projects

    Alba Triana was awarded the 2024 Knight Foundation Digital Commission Series after her project, Dialogue with the Primordial Sea, was selected as a Curator’s Pick by Locust Projects’ Director, Lorie Mertes.

  • artfields 2024 grand prize

    Alba Triana received the 2024 ArtFields Grand Prize, the festival’s highest honor, awarded for her installation Delirious Fields — Ensemble. The recognition highlights her ongoing exploration of vibration, energy, and the subtle forces that shape our sensory experience.

  • prix ars electronica 2023 award

    Alba received the Prix Ars Electronica 2023 Award of Distinction in the category Digital Musics & Sound Art for her piece “Harmonic Motion.

  • cifo artist award 2023

    In 2023, Alba Triana received the CIFO Grants & Commissions Award, her innovative approach to contemporary art practice. The program supports the creation and international presentation of experimental new works by emerging and established artists.

current | upcoming

  • life of the lifeless — alba triana

    max estrella

    nov. 15, 2025 - feb. 4, 2026

    Alba’s first solo exhibition at Max Estrella will bring together the core themes that define her practice, including vibration, energy, and the interconnected forces that shape the natural world.

    The result is a constellation of vibrational objects, kinetic installations, and resonant spaces that foreground the vibratory essence of the cosmos. Life of the Lifeless unfolds as a multisensory environment to be walked through, listened to, and contemplated across space and time.

  • smart citites

    new york latin american art triennial

    oct. 29, 2025 - jan. 17, 2026

    Alba's Music on a Bound String No. 2 will be part of Smart Cities, an exhibition curated by Naivy Pérez and Frency Fernández.

    This edition of the triennial explores the dynamic interplay between contemporary art and architecture—a relationship rooted in the origins of both disciplines yet redefined by the social vision of the 20th-century Avant-Garde movements. 

  • the music of things — alba triana

    aluna art foundation

    nov. 29, 2025 - feb. 23, 2026

    Upon crossing the threshold into another mode of knowledge and creation, Alba's art—beyond the visible or audible—becomes a way of manifesting in the realm of the perceptible the primordial force, the vitality, the essence that inhabits all things, for "everything lives!", and the whole of her work is joyfully aware of the interconnectedness present in all that exists.

recent

  • artbo 2025 | special project

    casa hoffmann

    sep. 25 - 28, 2025

    Casa Hoffmann’s Special Project at ARTBO 2025 presented Alba’s Dialogue with the Primordial Sea, an installation that invites a contemplative encounter with the elemental forces of nature. The booth also included works by Diana Granados, Leonel Vásquez, and Miguel Kuan.

  • cyfest 16. archive of feelings. a journey

    cyland and centro de cultura digital

    sep. 4 - 22, 2025‍ ‍

    CYLAND MediaArtLab and Centro de Cultura Digital, presented the 16th edition of the International Media Art Festival CYFEST: Archive of Feelings. A Journey in Mexico City. This year’s theme, ‘Archive of Feelings. A Journey,’ explores the complex relationship between emotional life and technological environments. Alba presented Dialogue with the Primordial Sea.

  • energy fields: vibrations of the pacific

    getty pst art: art and science collide

    sep. 15, 2024 - jan. 19, 2025

    Alba presented Music on a Bound String No.2 at Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific. The exhibition presents a diverse and dynamic collection of works from artists working out of Japan, Australia, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, and the USA. These works trace a path of investigation that intersects the fluctuation of time and space through gravitational waves, the geologic dynamism of tectonic and seismic activities and examines how sound, light, and electro-magnetic spectra affect the body and perception.