Talk

MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by Candida Alvarez.

Candida Alvarez is widely regarded as one of her generation’s most innovative and experimental painters. Her work has been collected by the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Whitney Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, and El Museo del Barrio, among others. She has received numerous awards, including the Trellis Art Fund Award, the Arts and Letters Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Mellon Foundation Latinx Artist Fellowship, the Helen Frankenthaler Award for Painting, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant.

Alvarez is an alumna of the Yale School of Art and held the F. H. Sellers Professorship in Painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she is now Professor Emerita. In fall 2024, she served as the Alex Katz Chair in Painting at The Cooper Union. Her career-spanning solo exhibition “Circle, Point, Hoop” was on view at El Museo del Barrio through August 2025, presented concurrently with “Real Monsters in Bold Colors: Bob Thompson and Candida Alvarez ” at GRAY New York.

Alvarez is represented by Monique Meloche Gallery.

Talks is a series of lectures by artists, writers and scholars presented by MFA Fine Arts. Lectures are held on Tuesdays at 3:00pm at 133 West 21st Street, Room 101C, and on Zoom. Participation in the Q&A is limited to MFA Fine Arts students attending the lecture in person.

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