alexandre ali reza dorriz (he/him/his) is an artist and writer with auxiliary practices in research, fieldwork, and curatorial projects. dorriz’s intermittent research and fieldwork have previously investigated the privatization of water banks in the Central Valley of California, water futures-commodities trading, the financial properties of museums and museum dissolution, and localized textile economies through silkworm breeding practices. dorriz is the co-founder of the abolitionist arts organization and artist collective Crenshaw Dairy Mart alongside artists Patrisse Cullors and noé olivas. his curatorial projects include: Yes on R: Archives and Legal Conceptions (Part 1: 2011 - 2013) (2020); CARE NOT CAGES: Processing a Pandemic (2020); YES ON R! YES ON J! SHUT DOWN MCJ! A Decade in Abolitionist Aesthetics (2023); and FREE THE LAND! FREE THE PEOPLE! a study of the abolitionist pod (2024). he is the author of "Creeping Tender" (2021) for Art Journal, Volume 80, and "abolitionist aesthetics and the abolitionist movement: Los Angeles Grassroots Organizations and the Aesthetic Foundations of Real-time Abolition" (2023), co-written with Patrisse Cullors, for the UCLA Law Review, Volume 69.6. dorriz's work has been featured and reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly and Artforum. dorriz has participated in residencies at Denniston Hill, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and has received his MFA at the University of Southern California and BA at the University of California, Berkeley.

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