Desirée Alvarez
desialvarez@aol.com

AWARDS

2006  Urban Artists Initiative Special Project Grant
2005  Cork Printmakers Residency Award, Cork 2005 European Cultural Capital, Ireland
2003   New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship Award
2001   The Robert D. Richardson Non-Fiction Award, Denver Quarterly
1999   American Academy of Arts and Letters, Willard L. Metcalf Award
1997   New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist Fellowship

FELLOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES

2000   Painting Space 122, P.S. 122, Artist in Residence, 1999-2000
1998   Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
1998   Manhattan Graphics Center Fellowship
1998   Lower East Side Printshop, Inc., Special Edition Fellowship Project

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2002   Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times, "Real Flesh, Not Perfect or Prurient"
2001   Denver Quarterly, University of Denver, "The Model as Painter and Painted," essay
2000   The New York Times, "The Lonely Life of a Free Spirit," Sunday, April 30
1999   Art in America, "Awards," July
1998   Beth Piskora, New York Post, "New York Woman"
1995   Michael Duncan, "Fabrication: Formal, found and funky," catalogue essay

EXHIBITIONS

SOLO

2006   California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA
2005   Le Temple, Lacaze, France
2003   SUNY Rockland, Rotunda Gallery, Rockland, NY
2003   Queens Theater in the Park, Queens, NY
2002   Koussevitzky Art Gallery, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA
2001   St. Peter's Church, NY, NY
1998   Art Resource Transfer Inc., NY, NY

LARGE INSTALLATIONS

2007  Taller Boricua, NY, NY

2006   "Going Under," film directed by Eric Werthman, starring Roger Rees

2005   Sirius Arts Center, Cobh, Ireland, CORK 2005

Center for Book Arts, "Paris/ New York"
Abrons Art Center, "Dialogue"
Housatonic Museum, "Innovations in Contemporary Printmaking,"
Bridgeport, CT
Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, "Dialogue"
Cité des Arts, Paris, France

2004   International Print Center, Impresionante! Innovative Prints by

Contemporary Puerto Rican Artists, curated by Deborah Cullen and Harper Montgomery, NY, NY Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, installation, "The Alumni Show," Middletown, CT

SELECTED GROUP

2006   International Print Center New York, "New Prints 2006," NY, NY

Lower East Side Printshop, Summer '06 Show, NY, NY

2005   Kosova Art Museum, Hope Box

Roman Petrovic Gallery, Sarajevo, Drawings
Centar Za Kulturu, Mostar, "Weather Report"
SKC Gallery, Belgrade, Hope Box

2004   International Print Center, "New Prints 2004/ Spring," NY, NY,

curated by Barry Walker 30 Vandam, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellows Exhibition, New York, NY
Art for Living, New York, NY
Johannesburg Art Gallery, "Hopebox Drawings," an international drawing collaborative, Johannesburg, South Africa

2003   Spark!, "Hopebox," Johannesburg, South Africa

Minds, I, "Hopebox," Pretoria, South Africa
NSA Gallery, "Hopebox," Durban, South Africa
Durban Art Gallery, "Hopebox," Durban, South Africa

2002   Virtual Museum of Contemporary African Art, "Weather Report"

Library of Congress, "Reactions," Washington, DC
Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, "Memory & Metaphor," NY, NY
Exit Art, "Reactions," NY, NY
Queensland College of Art Gallery, "Hope Box Peep-Show 2001", Griffith
University, Queensland, Australia
The Parrish Art Museum, "The Thirty-Seventh Juried Exhibition," Southampton, NY

2000   Williamsburgh Art & Historical Center, "Yaddo Artists," NY, NY

"Weather Report" in Mai Gallery, Hanoi and Blue Sace Art Centre, Ho Chi Minh City

1999   American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY, NY,

"Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards"
El Museo del Barrio, NY, NY, "The Selected Files: NY Artists of Latin American Heritage
American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY, NY, "Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture"

1998   Galerie Station 3, Vienna, Austria, "Druckgrafik aus New York"

Dorfman Projects, NY, NY, "The Tip of the Iceberg: A Response To NY Museums
Dave Muller's Three Day Weekend, "Cover," Los Angeles, CA

1996   University of Columbia, Bogota, Columbia, "Fusion Gravado"

Long Island University, NY, "Survey"

1995   Dalarnas Museum, Sweden, "Grafiker Falubiennalen 95"

The Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA, "Fabrication"
Art Center, Pasadena, CA, "Multimediation," Four Printmakers

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2006   Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota, Philip Pearlstein catalogue essay
2005  Denver Quarterly, University of Denver, poems Haberarts.com, "Making Books"

EDUCATION

1992   Master of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1987   Atelier Mac'Avoy; Academie Port-Royal, Paris, France
1985   Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art and English, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

TEACHING

2002 - present:   New York City College of Technology, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY, Adjunct Lecturer