 "Doll-head, hand held").Elia Alba's work has been exhibited and screened at national and international institutions, including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; El Museo del Barrio; The RISD Museum; Valencia Institute of Modern Art, IVAM, Spain; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; ARCO, Madrid; Jersey City Museum; Science Museum, London; and ITAU Cultural Institute, São Paulo, Brazil, and the Havana Biennial.In 1999 she began using photo transfer on fabric, creating body parts and masks that when staged in photography and video, play with notions of fantasy, surrealism, place, identity and gender.