Michael Alvarez

Michael Alvarez
b. 1983 Los Angeles, Ca                                                                           

Education
BFA- Art Center College of Design 2007

Solo Shows

2022

Good Looking Out- Matthew Brown Gallery- Los Angeles, Ca

2019

Mama's Boys and Other Stories- Riverside Art Museum- Riverside, Ca

2018

We're Out Here- Marlborough Contemporary New York, NY

2016

Sorealism- MaRS- Los Angeles,Ca


Group Shows 

2022
 
Hot Concrete: LA to HK, K11 Musea- Hong Kong
with Sow & Tailor and Woaw Gallery
 
What it Could Be- Stony Island Art Bank, Chicago, IL
with Gallery Anthony
 
Cheech Collects- The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, Riverside, Ca
 
2021
 
Hot Concrete- Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, Ca
 
LXS ANGELINXS- Galeria Javier Lopez y Fer Francis, Madrid, Spain
 
2019
 
Top Wizards, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca

2018

Divided Brain- Lava Projects- Alhambra, Ca

35x35: Dual Vision- Mexican Cultural and Cinematographic Center, Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles- Los Angeles, Ca

2017

Dark Progressivism: The Built Environment- Museum of Art and History- Lancaster, Ca                                  

4th SUR:biennial Cerritos College Art Gallery- Cerritos,Ca

2015

All Types of Characters- Joshua Liner Gallery- New York, Ny
Ill Squad- Giant Robot- Santa Monica, Ca

2014

Cal State Northridge- This is Not a Self Portrait- Northridge, Ca

2013

Market Gallery- Poor/Fancy- Los Angeles, Ca

2012

5790 Projects/Mark Moore Gallery- Against the Grain- Culver City, Ca                                                            
Needles and Pens- Everything Ever and Nothing Never-  San Francisco, Ca                                                               
Cerritos College- Facial Expression: Immanence Envisaged- Cerritos, Ca
Longmont Museum- Street Cred- Longmont, Co

2011

Pasadena Museum of California Art-Street Cred- Pasadena, Ca

2010

Pasadena Museum of California Art- Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River show- Pasadena, Ca

2009
Desmadre Arte: Fresh Latino Perspectives in America -Vermillion Gallery Seattle, Wa
Jab Strong Fierce(Street Fighter Tribute Show)- Gallery Nucleus Alhambra, Ca
Dreams to Reality benefit show- Gallery Nucleus Alhambra, Ca
Under the Influence- Gallery 1988 Los Angeles, Ca

2008
Gen Art Vangaurd Fair- Maimi, FL
Assholism - Thinkspace Los Angeles, Ca
Installation artist- The Hive Los Angeles, Ca

Publications

2021- my.ism- Community Vol 2
2019- New American Painting #145
2017- New American Painting #133
2015- Juxtapoz Magazine, July 2015
2013- Studio Visit Vol 23
2011- Thrasher Magazine: Canvas September 2011
2009- UGLARBOOK: Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River

Media

Hyperallergic
BOOOOOOOM
Amadeus Mag
Beautiful Decay
Juxtapoz
 
Collections
 
The Cheech Marin Collection

Teaching
2008- ArtworxLA