About Tina
Tina Alberni is a visual artist based in Charlotte, North Carolina, who is active in the local art scene.
Alberni grew up in Puerto Rico, Colombia, and Miami and graduated from Florida International University with a bachelor’s degree in art education.
In addition to teaching art full-time to middle and high school students in Dade County, Florida, Alberni exhibited in Colombia, Europe, and New York before the age of 30.
During the last three decades, Tina has exhibited and been featured in more than 100 solo, group, and virtual shows in the United States and abroad.
Her recent awards and highlights include a grant from the Charlotte Arts and Science Council, a first place award in a group show, a multi-digital billboard art display throughout Miami during Miami Art Basel, a multi-digital billboard art display in the two largest Westfield design malls in Vienna, Austria and was just invited to display her digital work live, at The Foundry gallery inDubai, UAE.
She has had work published in print and online, and her art is in private and public collections.
Her career span has included positions such as co-ownership of a Charlotte gallery, arts administration, middle and high school art education & web/graphic design directorship. She has been an invited guest speaker and served on numerous boards and jury panels.
She has experimented with a variety of mediums, subjects, and genres throughout her career, and her bi-cultural, vibrant heritage and upbringing are evident in her use of bold colors and rich narratives.
Climate change, endangered animals, human emotions, and the influence and impact of technology are all issues intertwined in her work, often becoming clarion calls for change.
Currently, she is devoted to her studio practice and exploring AI, AR, and digital collectibles (NFTs) (Here), in order to build new and meaningful connections with a wider audience.
Her career pursuits include commissions, corporate partnerships, collaborations with other artists, trade consultants, and interior designers, and exhibitions in unconventional venues.
More about Tina...
Alberni grew up in Puerto Rico, Colombia, and Miami and graduated from Florida International University with a bachelor’s degree in art education.
In addition to teaching art full-time to middle and high school students in Dade County, Florida, Alberni exhibited in Colombia, Europe, and New York before the age of 30.
During the last three decades, Tina has exhibited and been featured in more than 100 solo, group, and virtual shows in the United States and abroad.
Her recent awards and highlights include a grant from the Charlotte Arts and Science Council, a first place award in a group show, a multi-digital billboard art display throughout Miami during Miami Art Basel, a multi-digital billboard art display in the two largest Westfield design malls in Vienna, Austria and was just invited to display her digital work live, at The Foundry gallery inDubai, UAE.
She has had work published in print and online, and her art is in private and public collections.
Her career span has included positions such as co-ownership of a Charlotte gallery, arts administration, middle and high school art education & web/graphic design directorship. She has been an invited guest speaker and served on numerous boards and jury panels.
She has experimented with a variety of mediums, subjects, and genres throughout her career, and her bi-cultural, vibrant heritage and upbringing are evident in her use of bold colors and rich narratives.
Climate change, endangered animals, human emotions, and the influence and impact of technology are all issues intertwined in her work, often becoming clarion calls for change.
Currently, she is devoted to her studio practice and exploring AI, AR, and digital collectibles (NFTs) (Here), in order to build new and meaningful connections with a wider audience.
Her career pursuits include commissions, corporate partnerships, collaborations with other artists, trade consultants, and interior designers, and exhibitions in unconventional venues.
More about Tina...
In my home studio
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In my Mount Holly studio. Photo by Emily Andress
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Alberni was born with Marfan Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder which has made her prone to aneurysms over the course of her life. It is an “invisible-to-others” condition, so it’s been a challenge for her to navigate life with it since only those who really know her understand her daily challenges.
She regards this life long and threatening condition as crucial to her extreme level of empathy and hyperawareness.
Her life has been "interrupted" many times by health issues, leading to pivotal and frequent changes in her direction of work.
She regards this life long and threatening condition as crucial to her extreme level of empathy and hyperawareness.
Her life has been "interrupted" many times by health issues, leading to pivotal and frequent changes in her direction of work.
I feel each medium, style and subject I develop directly correlates to what I'm going through on a physical and mental level (ie. when I worked in a heavily textured geometric style for about 6 years, it was an uncertain time for my life survival and totally out of my control. Heavy textures and geometric shapes served figuratively as structures and stitches holding me together to avoid further aneurysms.)
My work with glass was all about life's extreme fragility and extreme strength because I've been at each of those extremes and the glass was a way for me to express how on one end I felt broken but on the other I felt like the bionic woman.
My current work with endangered animals is so full of empathy. Animals are so vulnerable and definitely underdogs falling prey to humans to a point of extinction. The pandemic put me in a very vulnerable position because of my preconditions, and I have always very much been the underdog in most situations throughout my life. It's not an easy place but it's certainly a place where I've learned to be resilient, find my strength and stay the course.
It is perhaps why her work often requires verbal commentary to read legibly as rooted in her work are the themes of hope and survival.
