Alia Farid (b. 1985) works at the intersection of art and architecture. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from La Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico (Viejo San Juan), a Master of Science in Visual Studies from the Visual Arts Program (now ACT) at MIT (Cambridge, MA), and a Master of Arts in Museum Studies and Critical Theory from the Independent Studies Programme or Programa d’Estudis Independents at MACBA (Barcelona).
I began making work somewhere in between art, architecture and urban anthropology. Today I’m still interested in these areas, but with a much more focused point on telling how informal networks are forced to make up for lack of formal structure, as one of the things I value most is the subversive quality of work that goes unnoticed.
