Artist Profile

Alessandra Risi Castoldi (b. 1997, Lima) is a painter whose practice functions as a site of transformation, drawing on personal and archival materials such as botanical books, stamp collections, and scientific imagery to explore systems of knowledge, memory, and cultural exchange. Her work investigates the relationship between nature, geography, and colonial histories, using painting as a “laboratory” where images are contaminated, translated, and reconfigured into new visual languages. Working across formats including fabric, matchboxes, and majolica, Risi creates fragmented landscapes and botanical forms rendered in saturated color and expressive brushwork, shifting between abstraction and figuration. Her Peruvian background informs a vivid chromatic sensibility and a materially experimental approach, often presented unframed to emphasize fluidity and texture. She studied at Corriente Alterna (2016–2018), earned a BA in Visual Arts from Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (2019–2021), and is currently pursuing an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art (2025). Risi has exhibited internationally, including solo and group presentations in London, Seoul, Milan, Vancouver, and Lima.