Francisco Alvarado-Juarez

I am primarily a self-taught artist working in photography, painting, video, installation, mixed media and sound. I'm exploring the challenge of experimentation, the expansion of boundaries and migrations across artistic media.

I was born in Honduras, moved to New York City as an adolescent in 1965, and graduated from the State University of New York, Stony Brook in 1974. While working at a dead-end job in 1975, I started teaching myself photography. I completed a course in basic color printing at the International Center of Photography (ICP), and returned six months later to share my first portfolio of color photographs of New York City. It received a very enthusiastic reception from the director of the Education Department who convinced me to show the work at the ICP in 1976. That show, entitled "New York," was my first solo exhibition.

After working in the photographic medium for a few years, I moved to Washington, DC, and in the fall of 1978 began to teach myself painting and drawing in a bold and colorful portraiture style. I was fortunate enough to sell a painting at the beginning of my career to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hirshhorn. That sale helped to publicize my work. I have continued to paint for the last thirty-fou...

1993 -Master of Fine Arts, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD

1975 -International Center of Photography, New York

1974 -Bachelor of Arts, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY

SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2011 Mirrors of Light, Galería Nacional de Arte, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
2009 Llamas y ofrendas: Oaxaca, 2006-07, Museo de Antropología de
Xalapa, Veracruz, México
2008 Visible and Unseen, Taller Boricua, New York
Between Light and Shadow: Photo-Installation, Instituto
Veracruzano de la Cultura, Veracruz, México
2007 From Manhattan to Oaxaca: Recent Photography, Clemente Soto
Vélez Cultural Center, New York
The Topography of Love, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo -Ateneo
de Yucatán, Mérida, México
2006 Secrets of Flora & Fauna, Jardín Borda, Cuernavaca, México
Two Worlds of my New York, Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños,
Oaxaca, México
2005 The Fauna; Gates to the Sea, 9th International Festival -Historic
District of Campeche, México
Love, Flora & Fauna, Casa de las Monas, León, Guanajuato, México
Nature of Love / Love of Nature, Museo de Arte de Querétaro, Mex.
2002 Canto a la fauna americana, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de
Oaxaca, México
2001 Canto a la Fauna: New York Trophies & NY Fauve, Everson Museum
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