Alexandro Segade is an interdisciplinary artist whose queer world-building projects propose speculative group identities. In 2000, he co-founded the performance art collective My Barbarian with Malik Gaines and Jade Gordon; the group presented a 20-year survey exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which traveled to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the multimedia installation was later acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Recent film projects include Star Choir (2024), a science fiction opera performed for a live audience and camera crew at Mount Wilson Observatory, LA, and was screened at the Museum of Modern Art, NY; and Anoche, a collaboration with Cuban musicians and dancers shot in Old Havana, which premiered at the 2025 Havana Biennial, Cuba. Segade’s graphic novel The Context was published in May 2020 by Primary Information, and his comics and essays on art and popular culture have been published by Artforum, Broadcast, Yale Theater Journal, MIT Press, and numerous catalogs. He is currently developing a new video opera with Malik Gaines, an experimental biopic about the career of Rose Bird, Supreme Court Chief Justice of California from 1977-1987. Segade is associate professor of Visual Arts At UC San Diego.
At MacDowell, Segade created a series of 14 drawings and, working in collaboration with Malik Gaines, edited an experimental video, both inspired by the Tarot, for an exhibition opening November 2025 at Lubov Gallery, Manhattan. Segade also began a script for a project commissioned by the Whitney Museum.
Portrait by Matt Grub
