CLAUDIA ALVAREZ

MEXICAN AMERICAN BORN: 1969 (MONTERREY, NUEVO LEON, MEXICO)

Education

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

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITONS

2022 Claudia Alvarez Ceramics, Ralph Pucci International, New York 2019 Claudia Alvarez: A Moment in Between, ZAZ10TS, New York 2018 Boy in a Room, Edward Hopper House Museum and Study Center, Nyack, NY 2017 Huerta, Back in Five Minutes OH, El Museo del Barrio, New York 2014 Claudia Alvarez, Acercate, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City 2012 Girls with Guns, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA • History of Immigration, Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, NE 2011 Close Your Eyes, White Space Collection, West Palm Beach, FL • American Heroes, Blue Leaf Gallery, Dublin • Claudia Alvarez, Falling, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 Claytopian New York, Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY 2019 California Clay: The Big Bang, The Assemblage, Lincoln, NE 2016 Allow Me: facing identity, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX • You’re Making Me

Uncomfortable: Perspectives on Controversial Art, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE • Mujeres, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney • NY, NY: CLAY, Clay Art Center, Port Chester

2015 New Ways of Seeing: Beyond Culture, Dorsky Gallery

Curatorial Programs, New York 2014 Migrantes: Claudia Alvarez, Jose Bedia, Ilya y Emilia Kabakov, Nina Menocal, Mexico City 2013 Its Surreal Thing: The Temptation of Objects, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE • The Figure, Keramik Museum, Westerwald, Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany

SELECTED AWARDS

2022 & 2014 McKnight Artist Residency for Ceramic Artists, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN 2017 Artist Residency, El Museo del Barrio, New York 2015 Artist In Residence in SASAMA, Shizuoka, Japan 2014 Art Matters Foundation, New York • Artista en Residencia, SOMA, Mexico City

2005 Artist in Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL • Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE • Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Ateneo de Yucatan, Merida, Mexico • Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney • El Museo Latino, Omaha, NE • ZAZ10TS, New York

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2017-Current Professor, New York University • Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn 2020-Current Greenwich House Pottery, New York 2022 Visiting Lecturer, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore