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Alessia Lupo Cecchet is an interdisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of studio and media arts. Grounding her work in archives, histories, and everyday experiences, her research concerns submerged histories of human and nonhuman displacement and suffering. She explores matters of decay, abjection, empathy, human exceptionalism, and temporality, through an engagement with the animal body as an access point for inquiry.

She holds a Ph.D. in film and digital media from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MFA from Syracuse University. Her work has been exhibited internationally in art galleries and film festivals, and her latest film balaena was awarded Best Experimental Film (New Jersey International Film Festival) and second prize in the juried exhibition ArteAlta (Alina Art Foundation). In 2023, Alessia Lupo was awarded the Arts/Industry (JMKAC) residency at the Kohler Co. Foundry in Wisconsin where she learned iron and brass casting processes.