Eduardo Alvarez

Eduardo Alvarez is a Chilean/American artist born in 1958 in Chillán, Chile. Since the beginning of his career in the late 70s, he has pioneered in the use of matter painting and mixed media as a figurative visual art form. As a member of the generation of artists living under an oppressive military regime in Chile, he transitioned in the early 80's into creative direction and photography in the advertising industry while still exploring his personal art practice in a more toned-down capacity.

In early 2001 he moved to Utah, USA with his family, where he has regained his matter painting and mixed media approach with a more abstract tilt. His mixed-media pieces are executed in a variety of media and often include oil, acrylic, digital images, matter painting mediums, collage, and found objects. Eduardo lives and works in Provo with his wife, Ruby, surrounded by his adult children, pets and collections.

Fine Arts, Univercidad Católica de Chile 1976-1980

2024 - Materializing Mormonism: Trajectories in Latter-day Saint Contemporary Art (Collective), Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, AZ. Curated by Heather Belnap and Ashlee Whitaker.
2023 - Restore 2023 (Collective), Faith Matters Foundation, Salt Lake City, UT. Curated by Esther Hi’ilani Candari
2023 - Filling in the Blanks (2-man show with Victoria Schiodtz), Writ & Vision, Provo, UT. Curated by Esther Hi’ilani Candari and Brad Kramer
2023 - The Art of Belonging (Collective), UVU Museum of Art, Orem, UT. Curated by Jorge Rojas
2023 - Annual Spiritual & Religious Art of Utah Exhibition (Collective), Springville Museum of Art (SMA), Springville, UT. Curated by Esther
Hi’ilani Candari and Rita Wright
2022 - Odd Duck Studio Show (Collective), Provo UT. Curated by Adam Thomas
2022 - Restore 2022 (Collective), Faith Matters Foundation, Salt Lake City, UT. Curated by Esther Hi’ilani Candari and Malachi Wilson
2022 - Politics & Body (Collective), JKR Gallery, Provo, UT. Curated by Megan Whitlock
2022 - 0 Tolerance (Solo show), Writ & Vision, Provo, UT. Curated by Malachi Wilson and Brad Kramer
2021 - The American Dream (Solo show), White Cubicle, Provo, UT. Self-curated