Lisa Alvarado
b. 1982, United States
Lisa Alvarado (b. 1982) is an artist and musician based in Chicago. Her practice incorporates painting, music and textiles. Her paintings are often accompanied by sound and have consistently formed part of mobile sets for performances by Natural Information Society since 2010, a minimalist musical ensemble for whom Alvarado plays harmonium. Selected solo exhibitions include: ‘MATRIX 192 / Spinning Echo’, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (2023); ‘Pulse Meridian Foliation’, REDCAT, Los Angeles (2023); ‘Scab Diagram’, The Modern Institute, Aird’s Lane Bricks Space (2021); Thalweg, Bridget Donahue, New York (2020); Polyphonic Shadow Cloth, LC Queisser, Tbilisi (2018); Sound Talisman, Bridget Donahue, New York (2017); Traditional Object, Soccer Club Club, Chicago, Illinois (2013); Limpia, Soccer Club Club, Chicago, Illinois (2012). Selected group exhibitions include: ‘ton not. not ton’, Kunsthalle Münster, Münster (2023); ‘Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept’ (2022); unFlagging, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa (2020); It Remains an Open Horizon, LC Queisser, Tbilisi (2020); Psychedelic Healing Center, Essex Flowers, New York (2019); Out of Easy Reach, Gallery 400, Chicago (2018); Alan Shields Project, Van Doren Waxter, New York (2018); The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2017) and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2016); Material Issue, KMAC Museum, Louisville (2016); among others.