BIO
Juliana Morgan Alvarez (they/she, b. Miami, FL), a multidisciplinary artist with an MFA in performance from CalArts '20. Their work investigates, with a keen wonderment toward natural phenomena, what happens to an object or subject’s relationship to itself and the outside world when confronted with friction and combustion. How does this history of contact create chains of connection through the objects and spaces we inhabit?
Select work and awards from the past year include: Group Show "Clutter & Filth" at Elephant Gallery, staged adaptation of "Long Stretches of Short Time" at Reef Residency in LA, Artist in Residence at STATE.
Select performances and work from the past year include: Live reading autobiographical work “Brute” at OZ Arts, group show at Julia Martin Gallery in Nashville, The Veteran feature film (dir. Jeremy Waltman; festival circuit 2024), Buchanan Arts Artist Fellow (2023 - 2024), STATE Artist Resident (2024 - 2025)
artist’s statement
My work is an exploration into slowness and surrender. Tediously shaping and smoothing 200 delicate tiles, then releasing them to flames and smoke. Introducing a new, barely breathing performance to a room of relative strangers and allowing their fidgeting, silent belches, laughter, and such to impact each lived moment. Diligent, intentional work that comes in conflict with elements and living others that cannot be controlled. A process that permanently alters, mars, and makes more beautiful the original idea/intention of an object/experience.
How does this history of contact create chains of connection through the objects and spaces we inhabit?
