Alessandra Bettòlo is a multidisciplinary architect, her passion, interest and skills cross over disciplines to include architecture, product design, visual design, interior design and painting. Trained in Architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan University, Alessandra holds an MA in Visual Design from the Scuola Politecnica di Design (SPD) in Milan and an Academic Diploma in Contemporary Portraiture from The Art Academy in London. Originally from Milan, Alessandra has also lived in Johannesburg, New York, Kuala Lumpur, London and the Tuscan countryside in the house of her ancestors. She counts herself as a local in each of these cities. In her work she uses the experience of her nomadic lifestyle across four continents and the synergy between her life as a woman, mother, wife, architect and painter. Her research uses the transformative power of classic iconography and the power of objects to focus on under-represented people of African descent in order to challenge discrimination and stereotypes, to open a dialogue and claim their place as protagonists in the western history of portraiture. She mostly paint portraits of her two kids to do so. In her portrait paintings the use of conventional iconography and contemporary design pieces always re-enact the action of power: the subject of the painting is a protagonist of the history of our time. As architect and painter, she has exhibited in London, Milan, New York, Kuala Lumpur, New Mexico and Monaco; preselected for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters exhibition 2018 and SWA Society of women artists 2019 and RA summer exhibition 2021; 'Come into my garden' wall installation, selected for exhibition+catalogue Competition Swiss original-Handmade creative project 2019; 'Le smoking' awarded as Highly Commended Artist, the Ashurst Emerging Artists Prize 2019 . 'Salon' solo exhibition in Montecarlo-Monaco Principality in 2020. Alessandra aspires to make portraits without social boundaries or geographic borders.

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