DEVIN ALEJANDRO-WILDER

ARTIST BIO:

Devin Alejandro-Wilder (they/he) b. 1993 is a cross-disciplinary artist, performer, and experimental filmmaker dually based in Austin, TX and Los Angeles. Born deaf, disabled, latinx, and identifying as transmasc/gender non-conforming—their creative practice blends expanded cinema, social practice, auto-theory, institutional critique, archival technologies, and decolonialist frameworks to reveal systemic inequities while uplifting multi-marginalized lived experiences and perspectives. As a curating member of Bolm Arts Collective they also have acted as a curatorial assistant in partnership with Austin ISD Performance Arts Center in support of their Black Box Gallery exhibitions programming.

 

Alejandro-Wilder has been supported by the City of Austin Economic Department as the recipient of both a Community Initiatives (2021) and Nexus Award (2025) in addition to The Creative Capitol Foundation (2022) and the Museum of Human Achievement through ongoing fiscal sponsorship. As a returning student at The Austin School of Film—having completed an Introduction to Super 8 Workshop (2021) and Avant-Garde and Experimental Filmmaking (2025)—their analog/digital experimental shorts have been screened by Encuentro, Hyperreal Film Club, The Gallery ATX, and Bolm Arts Studios. Most recently they were accepted into ASoF’s Documentary Storytelling Intensive Winter 2026 cohort in pursuit of their debut docushort spotlighting Austin’s longest running all latine drag show “Divina".

 

 

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Utilizing self-, community-generated, and intentionally sourced archival material to expand queer/trans, disabled, and latinx histories, my cross-dimensional practice is informed by the prism of individual, inherited, and shared lived experience/s. Activating public, private, and civic spaces via social-political interventions, my auto-theoretical and research-driven works deconstruct false binaries to haunt, inquire, investigate, and confront re-approaches and emergent techniques to declaring sovereignty of body, mind, self, and psyche. 

 

Unapologetically undisciplined and counter-institution by design—my developing body of new media works, performance as social intervention, and experimental films filters and diffreacts lived experience as conceptual material across forms, fields, timelines, and media. Approaching art-making from what is popularly defined as an “outsider” perspective, I recognize the stark contrasts of materiality and discourse inherent to those who have not had access to traditional and institutionally gated pathways towards participating in the ‘Art World’. Dually in protest and recognition of these systems, my creative practice invokes sculpture, character embodiment, expanded cinema, dramaturgy, and visual languages to subvert dominant hierarchies which ultimately reproduce cycles of oppressive and systemic marginalization.