CANDIDA ALVAREZ
EDUCATION
Yale University School of Art (MFA, 1997)
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1981)
Fordham University (BA, 1977)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Black Peregrine Program, Chinatown, Chicago
2003 Paradise Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 I Will Always Remember You TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL
1996 New/Now New Britian Museum of American Art, New Britian, CT
1993 Polyptychs June Kelly Gallery, NY; catalogue
Paintings: 1990-1992 Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
1992 Recent Paintings The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
1991 Paintings and Works on Paper The Queens Museum, Flushing, NY
1990 John Street Series Galerie Schneiderei, Cologne, Germany; catalogue
1989 Paintings and Drawings June Kelly Gallery, NY
1985 Exit Art The First World, NY
1983 The Hybrid Series Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Cows and Other Things The Cayman Gallery, NYC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Deep Black, SNO, Sidney, Australia
2010 Hangin Together Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 The Inland See: Contemporary Art Around Lake Michigan Western Michgan University in Kalamazoo (curated by James Yood)
Exquisiste Crisis & Encounters New York University A/P/A Institute; curated by Yong Soon Min
2006 Black Now Longwood Arts Project, Bronx; curated by Fred Wilson
Faculty Sabbatical ExhibitionBetty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Bronx Bound Lehman College Art Gallery, NYC
TakeOver The Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL
2005 All the Things We Love Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL
2004 Yard Sale Track House, Chicago, IL
2003 Scenery Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (July 17 – August 16)
Splat, Boom, Pow: The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
2001 Talking to Myself, Cultural Fantasy and Domestic Conditions Porter-Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA
2000 Words-Objects-Acts Museum of the City of Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia; catalogue
Out of Line; Drawings by Illinois Artists Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Snapshot: An Exhibition of Snapshots Portraying Intimate or Family Photos Contemporary Museum, Balatimore, MD
Passages: Contemporary Art in Transition Chicago Cultural Center and Miami Art Museum
1999 Choice 99 Exit Art, New York, NY
Selected Works From the Permanent Collection The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
Passages: Contemporary Art in Transition The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Catalogue; traveled to Chicago Cultural Center and Miami Art Museum
1998 Fellowhip Exhibition Commission on the Arts, Hartford, CT
Postmark International Artspace, New Haven, CT
1997 Heaven – Private View P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
1996 Community of Creativity: A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; traveled to National Academy of Design; catalogue
Creative Artists Network: Selections 1984-1996 Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1995 Artists Talk Back: Visual Conversations with El Museo, Reaffirming Spirituality El Museo Del Barrio, NY
1993 Paintings 1982-1992 Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
Contemporary Public Art in the Bronx Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
My/Self; Your/Other: Women, Art & Identity Contact Gallery, College of New Rochelle, NY
1992 Uncommon Ground; 23 Latin American Artists The College at New Paltz Art Gallery, NY
1991 Third International Bienal of Painting Cuenca Ecuador; catalogue
1990 Working on Paper: Contemporary American Drawing The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; catalogue
1989 Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women The Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, NY; traveled to The Blum-Helman Gallery, NY; catalogue and video
The Blues Aesthetic The Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
1988 Introductions The June Kelly Gallery, NY
Treasures from the Permanent Collection 1970-1987 The Studio Museum Harlem, NY
Autobiography, In Her Own Image Intar Gallery, NY; catalogue; traveled to Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, and Mills College Art Gallery, Okland, CA
1987 Masters and Pupils: The Education of the Black Artist in New York The Jamaica Art Center, NY. Brochure.
Latina Art Showcase ’87 Showcase Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, IL; catalogue
1986 New Visions Soho 20, NY
Rutgers National 85/86: Works on Paper Rutgers University, NJ; catalogue
22nd University of Delaware Biennial University of Delaware, DE; catalogue
1985 Artists-In-Residence Exhibition The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
Surfacing Images: A Selection of Works on Paper The Bronx Museum of the Arts Satellite Gallery at Hostos, NY
American Women in Art: Works on Paper United Nations International Women’s Conference, Nairobi, Kenya. Catalogue.
Surplus Exit Art, NY; catalogue
Honey! I’m Home The Midtown Art Center, Houston, TX
1984 New Sensibilities The Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
Selections The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1983 Books Alive The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
The Regentrified Jungle Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; catalogue
1982 27th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA; catalogue
1980 Art for Public Spaces: Proposals/Solutions Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
International Studio and Workspace Program P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, LIC, Queens
Art for Public Spaces: Proposals/Solutions Pratt Intitute, Brooklyn, NY
1979 Recollections: Candida Alvarez and Vincent Smith The Brooklyn Museum, NY
1978 Confrontation, Ambiente y Espacio El Museo Del Barrio, NYC, Sept 9-Oct 9
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2010 SAIC, Interim Graduate Dean, Professor Painting and Drawing
1998 SAIC, The Department of Painting and Drawing, Professor
1997 Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Lecturer
Yale University School of Art, Teaching assistant
1996 Penland School of Arts and Crafts, Drawing Studio
1994 Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, Visiting Artist, Lecturer
1994 Cooper Union, NY, Summer Art Instructor
SELECTED ARTIST LECTURES/ PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2007 Eastern Illinois University, Lecturer, Visiting Artist
2005 Founder and Curatorial Director of SubCity Projects, Fine Arts Building, Chicago
2003,04 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Lecturer and Visiting Artist
2003-06 The Burren College of Art, County Clare, Ireland, Lecturer, Visiting Tutor
2002 Metropolis Art in Chicago Series, The Art Institute of Chicago, (March) Lecturer
California State University at Monterey Bay, (April) Lecturer, Critic
2001 The University of Chicago, Committee on the Visual Arts, Lecturer, Visiting Artist
Juror for the Art Council Awards in Chicago, IL
2000 Juror for Art Kauai, Kauai, HI
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Art, Lecturer, Visiting Artist
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Lecturer, Visiting Artist
1999 International Artists' Studio Program in Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden (IASPIS), Artist Residency
Gallery 400, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Lecturer
1998 Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WE, Artist in Residence, Session 5, Lecturer
The Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The Next Hundred Years: The Future of Puerto Rico, Panelist
1995 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Visiting Artist
1994 College Art Association Panel, Ethnicity and Abstraction: An Examination of Essentialist Stance, Panelist, moderated by Kellie Jones
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA, Lecturer, Visiting Artist
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI, Lecturer, Visiting Artist
1993 The Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, Resident Visiting Artist
1992 Cooper Union’s Great Hall, The Erotics of Painting, Panelist moderated by Mira Shore, with Peter Schjeldahl, Eleanor Heartney, and Leon Golub
1991 Hamilton College, Hamilton, NY, Visiting Artist
New York Foundation for the Arts, Panelist, Prints, Drawings and Artists Books
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010 Mizota, Sharon, ARTnews, October 2010
2007 Snodgrass, Susan, “Report From Chicago” Art In America, January 2007, pgs 81-85
2005 Lopez, Ruth, “Going Down? SubCity Projects elevator exhibition space comes to a halt” Time Out Chicago, May 19-26, 2005, pgs 49-50
2003 Snodgrass, Susan, “Candida Alvarez at TBA,” Art in America, May 2003, p. 154
2000 Rausa, Janet. “Showcase: Passages: Contemporary Art in Transition,” Chicago Sun Times, (February 25. p.39)
1999 Johnson, Ken. “Art in Review, CHOICE 99,” New York Times, December 10, 1999, p. B47
1995 Cotter, Holland, “Reaffirming Spirituality,” at El Museo del Barrio,” New York Times, April 21, 1995
1994 Balken, Debra Bricker, “Candida Alvarez,” Art in America, April, 1994, Review
1993 MacAdam, Barbara A., “Candida Alvarez, Myth, Memory and Old Lace,” Art News, February, pgs 67-68
Zimmer, William, “Echoes of Paris in a Montevideo School,” The New York Times, January 3
1992 Cotter, Holland, “Art in Review: Candida Alvarez at the Bronx Museum of the Arts,”The New York Times (December 18, pg. C37)
Powell, Rick, “Through Myriad Eyes,” Modern Maturity, (June-July 1992,
pgs. 50-54)
“Candida Alvarez: Art Feature” Review: Latin American Literature And Arts, July-December pgs. 30-33
1991 Jacques,Geoffrey, “Art Review: Rewarding Rich Imagery, Candida Alvarez at the Queens Museum of Art,” New York Newsday, (October 1, 1991)
Pacheco, Patrick, “The New Faith in Painting,” Art & Antiques, (May 1991, pgs. 61-62)
1990 Cyphers, Peggy, "New York in Review: Candida Alvarez," Arts, (February, pg. 100)
Reid, Calvin, "Kind of Blue," Arts, (February, 1990, pgs. 54-56)
1989 Langer, Cassandra, "Autobiography: In Her Own Image," Women Artists News, Vol.13, No.3, pgs 26-27
1988 Fusco, Coco, “Hispanic Artists and Other Slurs,” The Village Voice, (Aug. 9, pg. 22)
Raven, Arlene, “Colored,” The Village Voice, (May 31)
“Candida Alvarez,” Appearances, (No. 14, Pg. 25)
1987 Brenson, Michael, “Art in Review: New Visions at Soho 2o Gallery,”
The New York Times, Jan. 9
1984 Jim Harris, “Two Artists Contribute to Each Others' Success,” The Mountain Eagle, Jan. 24
1983 Sims, Lowery S, Exhibition Essay, “Cows and Other Things,” The Cayman Gallery, NY
1981 Bujan, Juan, “Candida Alvarez and Nestor Otero: Two Puerto Rican Artists at the Cayman Gallery,” La Voz Hispana, Dec. 8-14
1980 Bey, Dawoud, “In Search of a Vision: Edward Clark and Candida Alvarez,” Uptown, The New York City Mission Society
PUBLISHED PRINTS AND PORTFOLIOS
1993 The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Archives in association with
Derriere L’Etoile Studios
1992 The S.A.F.E. Portfolio (Special Arts Fund for Emergencies) published by the
Office of Manhattan Borough President Ruth W. Messinger in association with
Edition Julie Sylvester; the portfolio also includes prints by Brett DePalma,
Colin Loy Lee, Judith Linhares, Frank Moore, Lorna Simpson, Hunt Slonem,
Robin Winters
COLLECTIONS
The Whitney Museum of American Art
American Telephone and Telegraph, NYC
Bellvue Hospital Center, NYC
Cumberland Hospital, NYC
El Museo Del Barrio, NYC
The Readers Digest, NYC
North General Hospital, NYC
The German Consulate, Philadelphia, PA
The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
The Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
The Printmaking Workshop, NYC
The University of Delaware, DE
COMMISSIONS
The MTA of New York, 2006
B is for the Birds
Faceted Glass Windows on elevated track station
Bronx River East Station, NY
The School Construction Authority, 1994
What Do You See?
Faceted Glass Windows
Six Windows each 6ft x 12ft, Atrium
IS 206A Middle School, NYC
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