Claudia Alvarez
Artist Statement
I’m influenced by the characteristics of children. Their actions pose questions simply yet poignantly about complex issues in the world today. A child’s viewpoint is innocent of cultural conventions. Their eyes and comments reveal to us just how corrupt social mechanisms are.
Claudia Alvarez is one of the exhibiting artists for ENOUGH VIOLENCE: Artists Speak Out.
Born: Monterrey, Mexico, 1969
Lives: New York, NY
Education
M.F.A., California College of Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2003
B.A., University of California Davis, Davis, CA, 1999
Selected Exhibitions
2013
Stump, Hunter College Project Space, New York, NY
The Figure, Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany
2012
Girls with Guns, solo exhibition, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
History of Immigration, solo exhibition, Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, NE
Separation Anxiety, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
2011
Falling, solo exhibition, Museum of Nebraska Art, University of Nebraska, Kearney, NE
2010
Better Half, Better Twelfth: Women Artists in the Collection, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Provisions, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY
Separation Anxiety, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
2008
El Silencio Del Agua, solo exhibition, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Ateneo de Yucatan, Merida, Mexico
Selected Grants and Awards
2013 McKnight Artist Residency, Northern Clay Center, The McKnight Foundation, Minneapolis, MN
2011 PV Art, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2009 Artist in Residence, The Association A.I.R., Vallauris, Valluaris, France
2008 Gruber Jez Foundation, Cholul, Mexico
2005 Artist-in-Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2002 Artist–in-Residence, FUTUR Foundation, Rapperswil, Switzerland
Selected Collections
El Museo Latino, Omaha, NE
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Ateneo de Yucatan, Merida, Mexico
National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Website: www.claudiaalvarez.org