Candida Alvarez

**Candida Alvarez** (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la yuuni 1955) nyɛla Americaninma nucheeni tuma baŋda ka niriba pam nyɛ ban mi o ka di nyɛla o pɛnta pɛnta tuma mini anfoonima yaabu zuɣu.

Alvarez nyɛla ŋun tum Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, O tuma maa sulinsi nyɛla din be public art collections of the Whitney, Art Institute of Chicago, San Jose Museum of Art, n-ti pahi Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. O nyɛla ŋun daa di yuuni 2022 US Latinx Artist Fellow ka nyɛ ŋun lahi deei pina Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation n-ti pahi Pollock-Krasner Foundation. O nyɛla ŋun be Chicago mini Baroda, Michigan ka nyɛ baŋda zaŋ n-ti pɛntibu mini anfoonima yaabu shikuru yuli booni   School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

## Shikuru baŋsim mini tuma
Alvarez nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so yuuni 1955 tiŋ yuli booni Brooklyn ka o lammba nyɛ ban daa yi Puerto Rico yuma ayi nyaaŋa. O nyɛla ŋun zoogi Farragut Houses. Alvarez nyɛla ŋun chaŋ Fordham University din be Lincoln Center, New York ka daa nya BA in studio art/liberal arts yuuni 1977; o daa bɔhim la Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture yuuni 1981. O tuma piligu New York, o daa tumdi la  El Museo del Barrio ka nyɛ ŋun pahi shikurutinima kamani Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1, Studio Museum in Harlem (artist residency) n-ti pahi Jamaica Arts Center ka bɛ tum tumanima. Lala saha ŋɔ, o daa mali "solo shows"  Exit Art (1985), Queens Museum (1991), Bronx Museum of the Arts (1992) ni din kam pahi.

Yuuni 1995, o daa chaŋ Yale School of Art n-daa ti bɔhim Mel Bochner, Rochelle Feinstein mini Howardena Pindell. Yuun shɛli din daa payana maa, o daa nya zaashee School of the Art Institute of Chicago ni ka o daa leei F. H. Sellers Professor in Painting. O tuma din doli nyaaŋa na, Alvarez nyɛla ninvuɣ so bɛ ni zaŋ pahi ("Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s ," Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 2017), Latinx art ("Estamos Bien – La Trienal 20/21," El Museo del Barrio, 2021; "Latinx Abstract," BRIC, 2021; "no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art din be Wake of Hurricane Maria," Whitney Museum, 2022). O nyɛla ŋun mali "solo exhibitions"  Hyde Park Art Center (2012), Chicago Cultural Center (2017), GAVLAK Gallery (Palm Beach, 2019; Los Angeles, 2021) n-ti pahi Monique Meloche Gallery (Chicago, 2020). 

Yuuni 2017, kom dibaa ayobu din daa nyɛ Alvarez di ni nyɛla Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo ni daa zaŋ shɛli tum tuma.

## Awards and recognition
Yuuni 2022, Alvarez nyɛla ŋun daa di US Latinx Artist Fellow (Ford Foundation mini Mellon Foundation) ka daa deei Arts and Letters award in Art ka di daa yina American Academy of Arts and Letters. O daa lahi di pina Helen Frankenthaler Foundation (2021), Joan Mitchell Foundation (2019), International Artists' Studio Program (Stockholm, 1999), Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1994), Mid-Atlantic-NEA Regional Fellowship (1988) n-ti pahi New York Foundation for the Arts (1986). O nyɛla ŋun lahi di "artist residencies" pina LUMA Foundation (Arles), MacDowell Colony, MoMA PS1, Pilchuck Glass School n-ti pahi Studio Museum din be Harlem.

Alvarez's nyɛla ŋun tuma sulinsi be public art collections kamani Addison Gallery of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Baltimore Museum of Art, Blanton Museum of Art, Brandywine Workshop and Archives, DePaul Art Museum, El Museo Del Barrio, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Pérez Art Museum Miami, San Jose Museum of Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,  Whitney Museum, ni din kam pahi. 

## Kundivihira

## External links
*Candida Alvarez website
*Candida Alvarez with Phong H. Bui, *The Brooklyn Rail*, 2020
*Q & A with Candida Alvarez , *Flaunt*, 2020
*Catching up with Candida Alvarez, *Chicago Gallery News*, 2022
*Candida Alvarez, Monique Meloche
*Candida Alvarez, Gavlak Gallery