Alexandra Gelis is a Colombian-Venezuelan, visual artist based in Toronto, Canada. She holds an MFA degree from York University, Toronto, Canada.
Her work incorporates photography, video, electronics and digital processes, informed by her formal education in Visual Arts. Gelis' work addresses the use of image relation to topics of displacement, landscape, and politics. One of the prevalent concerns in her work is to unveil the relationship between landscape, history, people, geopolitics and the diverse techniques for achieving subjugation of bodies and population.

In her current research, Gelis emphasizes the role of the artist as multidisciplinary inquirer who explores diverse methodologies in fieldwork. She has expanded her practice by using electronics and programming for interactivity. With a body of work mostly based in experimental documentary -a practice usually linked to past events- one of her current concerns is to include real time through the use of data capture. Real time data processing allows her to pull documentary to the present, as well as to delve in such issues implicit an hidden in the landscape. Landscapes may become dynamic archives
and important repertoires of colonial and post-colonial experiences, shaping definitions of territory, nationalism and sovereignty. These crossing of methodologies, research, and technologies shape her work in the form of immersive sculptural video-installation and site-specific interventions using sound and experimental electronics.

Essential and equally important to her creative process is a permanent commitment to arts education and community involvement. As an educator/facilitator in video and photography she has led workshops with youth in disadvantaged communities in Canada, Colombia, and Panama. Her work has been shown internationally in several venues and galleries in Canada, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Argentina and the United States. She has developed curatorial projects, video screenings, and programs for festivals in Latin America and Canada.