Candida Alvarez

Quick Facts

Full Name	Candida Alvarez
Occupation	Painter
Date Of Birth	Feb 2, 1955(1955-02-02)
Age	69
Birthplace	Brooklyn
Country	United States
Horoscope	Pisces

Candida Alvarez Biography

Candida Alvarez is one of the most popular and richest Painter who was born on February 2, 1955 in Brooklyn, United States. Candida Alvarez, was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1955. She is an American painter and a tenured professor of Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she has taught since 1998.

Alvarez’s works have included sculptures, collages, abstraction, and figuration, with materials as diverse as fabric, acrylic paint, enamel, galkyd, on various supports from canvas to cotton napkins to vellum. In Mambomountain, presented from December 2, 2012 to March 24, 2013 at Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, Alvarez’s brightly colored paintings offer distortions of the familiar. In Drawinggreen, presented from September 14, 2012 to October 13, 2012 at Riverside Arts Center in Chicago, Alvarez’s plan with this artwork was to transform Freeark Gallery to ‘directed reflection on a travel memoir’. According to the Hyde Park Art Center, in these works, “current and historic moments and identities are fused together onto the canvas, producing a hybrid state of uncharted territory.” Her painting has been included at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City. It was adopted by avant-garde Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo. For the past two decades, she has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Candida Alvarez Net Worth

Candida Alvarez is one of the richest Painter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Candida Alvarez 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Candida Alvarez was born in Brooklyn to parents who had arrived from Puerto Rico two years earlier, and grew up in the Farragut Houses. Alvarez earned a BFA from Fordham University in 1977 and studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1981. She earned her MFA from Yale School of Art in 1997, and studied at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland from 2010-2012.

Other well-known works by Alvarez include Recollections: Works on Paper by Candida Alvarez & Vincent D. Smith presented at the Brooklyn Museum in 1979.

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Facts & Trivia

Candida Ranked on the list of most popular Painter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Candida Alvarez celebrates birthday on February 2 of every year.

Top Facts about Candida Alvarez

1. Candida Alvarez is a Puerto Rican-American painter.
2. She was born in 1955 in Brooklyn, New York.
3. Alvarez studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
4. Her work has been exhibited internationally since the 1980s.
5. Alvarez’s paintings explore themes of identity and culture.
6. She often uses bright colors and abstract forms in her work.
7. In 2018, a retrospective exhibition of her work was held at the Chicago Cultural Center.
8. Alvarez has received numerous awards and grants for her artistry.
9. Her work is included in several public collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
10. Alvarez currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.