Aeron Bergman & Alejandra Salinas

 

Aeron Bergman (Detroit, USA) and Alejandra Salinas (La Rioja, Spain) are an artist duo who have lived in New York, Toronto, Detroit, London, Barcelona, Gothenburg, Oslo and currently live in Seattle.

Bergman and Salinas have shown work internationally at institutions such as 4th Athens Biennale; 1st Bergen Assembly Triennial; Turku Biennial, Finland; Fundação de Serralves, Porto; Steirischer Herbst, Graz; Eastside Projects in Birmingham, UK; Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna; ICC Tokyo; IASPIS, Stockholm; Lincoln Center and DAC in New York City; e-flux and Berlin Film Festival in Berlin, Center for Contemporary Art Glasgow, Edinburgh Film Festival and Dundee Contemporary Arts in Scotland, MOCA Novi Sad, Taipei Fine Art Museum; Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven; Centre George Pompidou and Palais de Tokyo in Paris; IMO and Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen; Henie Onstad Art Center, Kunstnernes Hus and 0047 in Oslo, MUDAM Luxembourg, among many others.

In experimental sound the pair won a top award in digital music at the Prix Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria in 2002 and they have been commissioned to produce sound works by institutions such as WDR West German radio and Swedish National Radio.

From 2011 to 2014 Bergman/Salinas founded and co-directed INCA, an artist run space and artist in residency in Detroit, USA. In 2013 they founded INCA Seattle, and in 2015 they founded INCA Press.

Bergman was professor at the Oslo Academy of Fine Art from 2007-2013, both were visiting professors at the International Academy of Art Palestine in Ramallah from 2008-2011, and they are both currently full time faculty at the University of Washington, Bothell.