Renata Cassiano Alvarez is a Mexican-Italian artist born in Mexico City. She focuses in process, where she has developed an intimate relationship with material and its many languages. Influenced by archeology and the collective Latin American experience, she believes in the power of the object as survival and witness to transformation and endurance over time. Objects that bound us in continuity. Her work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in public and private collections. She works between her studio in Veracruz, Mexico and Arkansas, US.
Resumé
EDUCATION
2018 MFA, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA
2006 BFA, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, México
GRANTS/AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS
2024 Second place award, XIV Bienal Nacional de Pintura, Grabado y Cerámica
Contemporánea Alfredo Zalce 2024, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Alfredo Zalce,
Morelia, Michoacán, México
2024 Teaching Artist Cohort, Center for Craft, Asheville, NC
2023 Emerging Artist Cohort, American Craft Council, Minneapolis, MN
2023 Hopper Prize Finalist, Spring 2023
2022 Honorable Mention, VI Bienal de Arte Veracruz, Veracruz, México
2022 Delta Voices, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR
2021 Artist 360 Grant, Mid-America Arts Alliance and the Walton Arts Foundation, Fayetteville
AR
2020 Honorable Mention, V Bienal de Arte Veracruz, Veracruz, México
2019 Artist Residency Fellowship: Zenobia Award, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts,
Edgecomb, ME
2018 Artist Residency Fellowship Lanzhou City University, Lanzhou, China
2018 Artist Residency Fellowship Master Artist, Clay Gulgong, Gulgong, Australia
2014 Artist Residency Fellowship Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center,
Skælskør, Denmark
2013 Artist Residency Fellowship Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center,
Skælskør, Denmark
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Terso Espejismo, Galería Banda Municipal, CDMX, México
2024 Yo Soy el Río, JEX, Xalapa, México
2023 Espejos, Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN
2022 Siempre Voy a Volver, Eutectic Gallery, Portland OR
2020 Consumed by the Gospel of Uncertainty, Lucy Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA
SELECTED COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2024 I Saw the Light in Your Eyes, Sheet Cake Gallery, Memphis, TN (exhibition in
collaboration with Anthony Sonnenberg)
2023 Piedra Falsa, Conkling Gallery, Mankato, MN (exhibition in collaboration with Craig
Hartenberger)
2023 Señales de Humo, Lucy Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA (exhibition in collaboration with
Daniel Berman)
2016 Estratos, Museo de Antropologia de Xalapa, Xalapa, México (exhibition in collaboration
with Craig Hartenberger)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 XIV Bienal Nacional de Pintura, Grabado y Cerámica
Contemporánea Alfredo Zalce 2024, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Alfredo Zalce,
Morelia, Michoacán, México
2024 Fluid Dreamscapes, Maison Celeste, CDMX, México
2024 Enter Art Fair with Galería Banda Municipal, Copenhagen, Denmark
2024 Base Notes & Place Holders, SITE Gallery, Sheffield, England (curated by TC
McCormack)
2024 Common Ground, Thinkspace Projects, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Kristy Moreno)
2024 Collect Art Fair with Thrown Contemporary, London, England
2024 El Hilo de la Conversación, Galería Banda Municipal, CDMX, México (curated by Aleida
Pardo)
2023 Welcome In, Sheet Cake Gallery, Memphis, TN (curated by Lauren Kennedy)
2023 Metáforas de un Origen, WIT Festival de Arte, Guadalajara, México (curated by
Melissa Aldrete)
2023 Elevation: Kaneko and Contemporary Ceramics, Elaine L. Jacobs Gallery
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI (curated by Jessika Edgar and Kat Goffnett)
2023 115 Miles East, M A Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK (curated by Mary Ann Doran)
2023 Unidos, Wash Park Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (curated by Randi O’Brien)
2022 VI Bienal de Arte de Veracruz, Galeria de arte Contemporaneo, Xalapa, México (juried
by Aleida Pardo and Edgar Orlaineta)
2022 2022 University of Iowa Ceramics Invitational Exhibition, Drewlowe/Mendieta Galleries,
Iowa City, IA
2021 Aesthetic Group, Hang at Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA (curated by Brett Binford and
Piero Spadaro)
2021 Diálogos Endémicos, Proyecto Ensayo en Sitio, Xalapa, Mexico (curated by Jimena
Ortiz)
2021 Material Remains, Young Space Views (online) (curated by Kate Mothes)
2021 Somos Tierra: La Pasion, Galeria Fermin, Xalapa, Mexico (curated by Rabi Montoya)
2021 Elevate, 21C Bentonville, Bentonville, AR (curated by Danny Baskin)
2021 Texture of Color, Eutectic Gallery, Portland, OR (curated by Brett Binford)
2020 Las Lenguas del Barro, Proyecto Publico PRIM, CDMX, México (curated by Fermina
Gerdes)
2020 V Bienal de Arte de Veracruz, Pinacoteca Diego Rivera, Xalapa, México (curated by Sol
Henry and Barbara Perea)
2020 Empowering Voices, Lucy Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA (curated by Lucy Lacoste)
2020 Quarantine Folk, Calico Brooklin, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Scott Chasse)
2020 Taiwan Ceramics Biennial, New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 The Form Will Find Its Way: Contemporary Ceramic Sculptural Abstraction, Katherine E.
Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (curated by Betsy Carpenter)
2018 Post Painted Pottery Culture, Lanzhou City University Gallery, Lanzhou, China
2018 LAS (Latin American Status), Pittsburg Cultural Trust, Pittsburg, PA (curated by Natalia
Arbelaez)
2017 5th International Triennial of Silicate Arts, Kecskemét Cultural and Conference Centre,
Kecskemét, Hungary
2016 Boston Young Contemporaries, Stone Gallery, Boston, MA (curated by Catherine
Haggarty and Margaux Ogden)
2017 Conceptual Clay Hot Art, Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA
2017 360 Degrees of Separation, Purdue Galleries, West Lafayette, IN (curated by Sigrid
Zahner)
2015 III International Triennial of Ceramics UNICUM 2015, Narodni Museum, Slovenia
2015 Tendencias + Tradicion, Centro Cultural Atarazanas, Veracruz, México (curated by Rabi
Montoya)
2014 9th International Exhibition of Small Form Porcelain, Riga Porcelain Museum, Riga,
Latvia
2013 The Clay, Albrectsens Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013 Gustavo Pérez Workshop, Moyshen Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, México (curated by
Gustavo Perez)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2021 New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Estonian Ceramics Association, Kohila, Estonia
2015 Narodni Museum, Slovenia
2014 Riga Porcelain Museum, Riga, Latvia
2014 Hetjens-Museum, Dusseldorf, Germany
2013 Guldagergaard, International Ceramic Research Center, Skælskør, Denmark
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2021 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR (2021-2024)
2019 Instructor/Studio technician, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR (2019-2021)
2019 Instructor, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH