Priscilla Aleman (born 1991) is a visual artist based in New York. Aleman graduated from The Cooper Union with her BFA in sculpture (2013) and her MFA from Columbia University (2019). Upon graduating she continued her art practice in Miami working with archaeologists conducting an intimate investigation of South Florida’s relationship to the Tropics and the Latin America Landscape. Aleman’s training in archaeology influences her practice for creating sculpture installations, enabling her to retrace ideas around the afterlife, Pre-Columbian cosmology, and the interplay of cultures from the global south. Bringing an understanding of past traditions in the Americas and its environmental history,  Aleman crafts her own sanctified installations as deified monuments and memorials. Aleman’s first solo exhibition “Free Standing” opened at The Cooper Union in 2009. Her next solo exhibition “Origins of Devotion” will open at The Wave Hill Sunroom Project Space (Fall 2021) New York. Aleman has exhibited in group shows at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (2009) Washington DC, The Margulies Collection (2009) Miami Florida,  National YoungArts Foundation (2009, 2018, 2020) Miami Florida, among other venues. She has participated as Artist-in-Residence at Wheaton Arts (2019) New Jersey, Bronx Museum AIM fellowship (2019), Art + Research Center at ICA Miami (2020), is a project resident at The Deering Estate (2020), and has received numerous awards including The Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation Fellowship (2020), Cintas artist relief (2020), Columbia University Travel Grant (2019), and is a U.S. Presidential Scholar alumna.