Ana Laura Aláez, born in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain
At the moment she is living in the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, thanks to a grant between 2022-2023.
Her first trip to Japan was in 2008 for her installation Bridge of Light for Towada Art Center in Towada City. In 2019 she traveled to Tokyo and Towada City again to film some material for her video Queer Bearers: The double and the repetition, thanks to a Spanish grant Multiverso-BBVA Foundation. This short film got some international attention in film festivals like International Dance Film Festival Japan in 2021 and 2022, Porto Femme 2021, and Kyiv International Short Film Festival 2021 and was the Audience Award Winner of the 57. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen in 2021.
 In 2013, she received the Gure Artea Award from the Basque Government in recognition of her artistic career and her contribution to contemporary art and culture.
Ana Laura Aláez has undertaken various initiatives in the fields of interior design, and publishing (as picture editor and writer for the Spanish magazines: Vogue, NEO 2, and B-guided. )
She has also been very active in the educational arena, leading numerous courses and workshops.
In collaboration with the musical duo Silvania, she recorded an album titled Girls on Film, a compilation of the musical scores composed specifically for several of the videos she had produced up to that point. She currently works with the musician Ascii.disko.

Representative exhibitions
-Queer Bearers: The double and the repetition, Museo de Bellas Artes (Bilbao, Spain, 2021)
- Bridge of Light. Towada Art Center　(Towada City, Japan, 2008)
-Beauty Cabinet Prototype. Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2003)