Claudia Alvarez 96 Grand St. #3, New York, NY 10013 www.claudiaalvarez.org [email protected] 916-397-4050

1969 Mexican-American, Lives and works in

2003 California College of Arts, San Francisco, California MFA 1999 University of California Davis, Davis, California BA

Solo Exhibitions

2018 Boy in a Room, Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, New York (forthcoming) 2017 Huerta, Back in Five Minutes Artist Residency, El Museo del Barrio, New York 2014 Claudia Alvarez, Acercate, CENART, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico 2012 Girls with Guns, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California History of Immigration, Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, Nebraska 2011 Close Your Eyes, White Space, West Palm Beach, Florida American Heroes, Blue Leaf Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Claudia Alvarez, Falling, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Nebraska 2009 Dirty Water, Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska 2008 El Silencio Del Agua, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Ateneo de Yucatan, Merida, Mexico 2005 Cosas de Un Niño, El Museo Latino, Omaha, Nebraska 2002 Sojourn, FUTUR, Rapperswil, Switzerland

Group Exhibitions

2017 Material Matters, New York University, Barney Building, New York, curated by Judith Schwartz In Our Nature, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Meridith McNeal 2016 Allow Me: facing identity, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas Your Making Me Uncomfortable: Perspectives on Controversial Art, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln Nebraska Mujeres, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Curated by Teliza Rodriguez NY, NY: CLAY, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, New York, Curated by Judith Schwartz 2015 New Ways of Seeing: Beyond Culture, Dorsky Gallery, New York In Pursuit of Freedom, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, Curated by Meridith McNeal Renowned Traveling, Arts Center or Saint Peter, Minnesota Super Boy, Perez Art Museum, Miami, Florida with Broward Youth Center, Overtown Youth Center, And Girl Power 2014 Migrantes: Claudia Alvarez, Jose Bedia, Ilya y Emilia Kabakov, Nina Menocal, Mexico City Pushing Boundaries, White Space, The Mordes Collection, West Palm Beach, Florida 2013 Its Surreal Thing: The Temptation of Objects, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska The Figure, Keramik Museum, Westerwald, Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany Stump, Hunter College Project Space, New York, New York 2012 Open Studio, Brooklyn Museum GO Open Studios, Brooklyn, New York Separation Anxiety, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, New York So Moving, St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn, New York 2010 Better Half, Better Twelfth: Women Artists in the Collection, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska Provisions, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY Separation Anxiety, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffey College, CA Wildly Different Things, The Observatory, Dublin, Ireland Vida Breve, National Museum of Mexican Art, , Illinois 2009 Panopticon, Lied Art Gallery, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska Resident Artists, Galerie Aqui Siam Ben, Vallauris, France 6 Moduli, Centro de Artes Visuales, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

1 Resident Artists, Galerie Aqui Siam Ben, Vallauris, France 2008 Tiempo Y Espacio, Museo de la Ciudad, Merida, Mexico 2007 Salty: Three Tales of Sorrow, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA Line by Line, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska Love Terrors, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska Building a Legacy, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska 2006 Earthenware, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexico The Family of Clay: CCA Ceramics 1950-2005, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, California 2005 Pygmalion’s Gaze, Creative Alliance Gallery, NCECA, Baltimore, Maryland 2004 Small Voices, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas 2003 Flor y Canto Galleries, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 2002 Collaboration, FUTUR, Rapperswil, Switzerland 2001 Art Bowl, B. Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento, California Verging On, Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, California

Awards and Residencies

2018 Dumfries House, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom 2017 El Museo Del Barrio, New York, New York 2015 Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, New York SASAMA International Ceramic Art Festival, Shizuoka, Japan 2014 Art Matters Foundation, New York, New York The McKnight Foundation, Artist in Residence, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Artista en Residencia, SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico 2011 Vytlacil Artist in Residence, Arts Student League of New York, New York 2009 PV Art, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 2008 Gruber Jez Foundation, Cholul, Yucatan, Mexico 2006 Visiting Artist, China Century Entertainment Inc., Shanghai, China 2005 Artist in Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska 2002 Artist in Residency, FUTUR, Rapperswil, Switzerland, Jan-July

Museum Collections

Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearny, Nebraska National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, Illinois Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Ateneo de Yucatan, Merida, Mexico El Museo Latino, Omaha, Nebraska

Selected Bibliography

2015 Jan Garden Castro, Artist Residencies in Multiple Studios: Interview with Claudia Alvarez, International Sculpture Center, In the Studio, New York, New York 2014 Matthew Harrison Tedford, Molding Art from Life, California College of the Arts, Oakland Julie K. Hanus, Visualizing Violence, American Craft, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April/May Terry Rosenberg, Claudia Alvarez: Familiar Civilization, Esteka, Cerámica Contemporánea, Santiago, Chile 2013 Daniel A. Siedell, Ph. D. Larks that Cannot Sing: The work of Claudia Alvarez, infoceramica, Madrid, Spain http://www.infoceramica.com/2013/07/claudia-alvarez/ Jan Garden Castro, Claudia Alvarez at Scott White Contemporary Art, Ceramic Art and Perception March 2013 2012 Kristina Puga, Girls with Guns, Raises concerns of bullying and violence, NBClatino.com, New York, NY, 09/27/2012 http://nbclatino.com/2012/09/27/photos-artist-discusses-her-exhibit-girls-with- guns/#s:girlswithguns1

2 Joe Nalven, Claudia Alvarez, Girls with Guns, U~T San Diego, CA 09/14/2012 http://www.utsandiego.com/weblogs/joe-nalven/2012/sep/14/claudia-alvarez-girls-with-guns/ Sally Deskins, Claudia Alvarez, The Reader, Omaha, Nebraska, 03/14/2012 2011 Mary Day, Catch a Falling Star, The Reader, Omaha, Nebraska, 04/29/2011 Aidan Dunne, A Fair View of Art, The Irish Times, Dublin, Ireland, 02/21/2010 2010 Micol Hebron, Separation Anxiety, Art Pulse 11/13/2010 Stacy Davies, Separated by Birth, Inland Empire Weekly, Corona, California, 11/2010 2009 Michael J, Krainak, Whole-grain Goodness, Omaha City Weekly, Omaha Nebraska John Pitcher, Claudia Alvarez, Corn in all its Golden Glory, Omaha World Herald, Go Magazine, Omaha, Nebraska Mikael Krainak, Art Collectors Seek Their Treasure, Omaha, Nebraska 2008 Maria Teresa Mezquita Mendez, La Mutilada Fragiludad de la Infancia, Yucatan, Mexico Ceramics Monthly, December 2008 Christian Nuñez, El Silencio de Agua, Unas Letras, Merida, Yucatan Michael J. Krainak, Show Me the Art, CityWeekly, Omaha, Nebraska Steven Zevitas, New American Paintings Volume #74 Northeastern 2007 Schwartz, Judith S. Ph.D. Confrontational Ceramics Ryan Kathman, Love Terrors, Omaha City Weekly, Omaha, Nebraska Rachel Albin, Societal Conflicts, Daily Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska 2006 Carpenter, Kim Cosas de un Niño NY Arts Magazine, March/April 2006 Vol.11 No 3/4 Carpenter, Kim Children’s Stories Review Magazine, March 2006, Kansas City, Missouri 2005 Interview, Cosas de un Niño, WKNO 91.7 Omaha Local National Public Radio Gerard, Kacie Columpiádose con Memorias El Perico, Enero 5-11, 2006 Rosado, Marina Claudia Alvarez El Perico, Deciembre 15-21, 2005 Omaha, Nebraska Brown, Glen Pygmalion’s’ Gaze Ceramic Monthly, June July August 2005 Latina Artists Nuestro Mundo Monthly, June 2005

Books and Catalogs

2015 New Ways of Seeing: Beyond Culture, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, New York, Jan Garden Castro and Eileen Jeng 2014 Claudia Alvarez Acércate, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico, Sergio R. Blanco Its Surreal Thing: The Temptation of Objects, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska, Jorge Daniel Veneciano, PhD 2013 ENOUGH Violence: Artists Speak Out, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburg, PA 2012 So Moving, St. Joseph’s College Council for the Arts with Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation 2011 Provisions, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY 2010 Better Half, Better Twelfth Women Artists from the Collection, Sheldon Museum of Art Separation Anxiety, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, Curated Denise Johnson and Rebecca Trawick 2008 Claudia Alvarez, El Silencio Del Agua, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Ateneo de Yucatan, Merida, Mexico 2007 Confrontational Ceramics Schwartz, Judith S. Ph.D.

Art Related Service 1999 & 2002 Gallery Panel: Gallery W, Sacramento, California 1999 & 2001 Curator: Gallery W, Christmas show /children’s art exhibition 1999 Ceramic Assistant: University of California, Davis, Annabeth Rosen 1998 Ceramic Assistant: University of California, Davis, California Art Related Community Service 2003-2004 Art Teacher, Estado 29 Orphanage, Ensenada, Mexico 1997-2000 Art Instructor: 7th & 8th grade, Warehouse Ministries, Sacramento, California 1998-1999 Arts and Crafts Creator: Warehouse, Sacramento, California, Design projects for

3 teachers 1997-1998 Activity Director: Summer Kids Camp, Sacramento, California 1997-1998 Art Instructor and Spanish Interpreter: Mexico Outreach program, Azusa Pacific University, Los Angeles, California 1995-1997 Art Instructor, Warehouse, Sacramento, California, 12-step recovery program

Professional Experience

2018 Art Instructor, The Royal Drawing School, London, England (Summer 2018) 2017-Present Adjunct Instructor, New York University, New York, New York 2017-Present Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York 2016 Adjunct Professor, Wagner College, Staten Island, New York (Fall Semester) Visiting Lecturer, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, (Spring Quarter) 2015 Visiting Art Teacher, The Clay Center, Port Chester, New York 2011-2009 Art Instructor, Penn South Ceramic Studios, New York, New York 2011-2006 Art Instructor, CSSSA, California State Summer School for the Arts at California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, California (August) 2009-Present Teaching Artist, Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, Brooklyn, New York 2009 Art Instructor, Sitka Fine Arts Camp, Sitka, Alaska Art Instructor, Haydon Art Center, Lincoln, Nebraska Visiting Artist, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexico (workshop) 2009-2008 Art Instructor, The Kent Bellows Studio and Center for Visual Arts, Omaha, Nebraska 2008 Visiting Professor, ESAY, Escuela Superior de Arte de Yucatan, Merida, Mexico 2008-2005 Art Instructor, , Omaha, Nebraska 2006 Art Instructor, The Hope Center, Omaha, Nebraska (After-school Program) 2005 Art Instructor, Art4Omaha, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska 2004 Adjunct Professor, Biola University, Los Angeles, California Teaching Assistant, Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina, with Arthur Gonzalez 2004-2003 Art Instructor, Children’s Art Academy, Sacramento, California, (Summer) 2003 Teaching Assistantship: Ceramics, CCAC, California College of Arts and Crafts Assistant, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California, The Five Realms, with Arthur Gonzalez 2002-2001 Physical Education Teacher, Tuff Tumblers, Bay Area Montessori Schools, California 2001 Visiting Artist, Lecture & Ceramic Demonstration; Sacramento City College, California Visiting Artist, Glaze Chemistry & Glazing Techniques Demo: San Jose Community College, San Jose, California Teaching Assistantship: Clay and Steel, CCAC California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California, with John Toki Ceramic Technician: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California 2000-1987 Medical Transit Coordinator, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California 1999 Art Instructor, Arts Bridge, University of California, Davis, teaching program taught at Willow Springs Elementary School, Woodland, California 1999-1997 Art Instructor, Warehouse Ministries, Sacramento, California

Presentations/Lectures

2017 Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, New York University of , Department of Art and Art History, Storrs, Connecticut 2015 SASAMA International Ceramic Art Festival, Shizuoka, Japan 2014 UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autonama de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota 2013 Hunter College, New York, New York 2012 Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, Nebraska 2011 Museum of Nebraska Art, University of Nebraska, Kearney

4 2010 University of Nebraska, Omaha, Wilson Memorial Lecture Series 2009 AIR Vallauris, Vallauris, France Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2007 Los Talleres, Coyoacan, Mexico City, Mexico 2006 The Arts and Design College of Fuzhou University, Xiamen, China 2005 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska North Park University, Chicago Illinois 2004 Biola University, Los Angeles, California 2003 Gordon College, Boston Massachusetts, Broken Body Panel Discussion 2002 FUTUR, Rapperswil, Switzerland 2001 Sacramento City College, Sacramento, California San Jose Community College, San Jose, California University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas 2000 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California NCECA, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina

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