Alejandra Delgado Uría is a Bolivian visual-artist and photographer whose work explores architecture, memory, and identity in the Andean region.

Delgado Uría was born in La Paz, Bolivia in 1977. She studied at the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes “Hernando Siles” in La Paz, Bolivia. She later obtained a Master’s in Photography at the School of Photography EFTI (Centro de Imagen) in Madrid, Spain. She relocated to Lima, Peru, where she lives and works. Her career began in the early 2000s (her video- and performance-works appear already by 2006–2008).

Delgado Uría’s work spans photography, video, performance and installation. She often engages with Andean architecture, urban forms and identity, using layering, collage and visual dislocation (for example in her series Fantasmagorias, exploring the stylized Bolivian “cholet” architecture). Her practice interrogates cultural histories, power relations and spatial imaginaries of the Andes. She has exhibited widely in Latin America, Europe and the U.S., and been included in curated group exhibitions of note (e.g., at Art Museum of the Americas / OAS). She is regarded as a significant contemporary Bolivian-Andean artist in international dialogue.

Since 2013 Delgado Uría has also worked directly with the coca leaf in her installation-video Danza Macabra Op. 40 (2013): a floor-bed of coca leaves (1 × 2 m) becomes the stage for projected female feet dancing to Saint-Saëns’s Danse Macabre, folding together references to ritual consumption, the gendered labour of coca cultivation and its illicit after-life. 

Her practice has gained growing international visibility, with recent highlights including her participation in Fragmenting Obsolescence. Matter in Conflict at BIENALSUR 2023 and its upcoming BIENALSUR 2025 edition in La Paz; her inclusion in Panorama del Videoarte de Bolivia at the Centro Cultural de España (2021); the major group show Building Dialogs at the Art Museum of the Americas/OAS in Washington D.C. (2020); and her solo exhibition Fantasmagorías at Nube Gallery in Santa Cruz (2018).