Alejandra Carrillo is an Indianapolis-based Chicana artist known for her multidisciplinary work focusing on the Mexican-American experience in the Midwest. Her printmaking and multimedia works convey narratives of the displacement, decolonization, and re-humanization of brown life.. Carrillo aims to bridge together the imagery and stories of historical Mexican heritage, the contemporary Chicano experience, and the challenges undocumented Latine communities face in America today.

Alejandra has a double bachelor’s degree in Printmaking and Art Education from Indiana University in Indianapolis where she earned recognition from the Indiana Art Education Association in 2021. Through murals, public installations, print exchanges, vending, and public school exhibition pop-ups, Carrillo aims to normalize and create opportunities for Indy Latine youth to excel in the arts.

Carrillo earned a double bachelor’s degree in Printmaking and Art Education from Indiana University in Indianapolis in 2023 and is a multidisciplinary printmaking instructor at the Indianapolis Art Center. Locally, she was an awardee for the 2024 100th Annual Hoosier Salon Juried Exhibition. Nationally, she has received juried show awards from the 2023 El Paso’s Print Pachanga, Once: Emerging Artist Exhibition at Cleve Carney Museum of Art, and the 2023 Manhattan Graphics Center National Print Exhibition.