Alvaro Barrington
Overview
Born in Venezuela to Haitian and Grenadian parents, raised in Grenada, then Brooklyn, Alvaro Barrington’s multidisciplinary practice combines his personal heritage with art history. In his celebratory, community-focused work Barrington chooses materials for their associative cultural and historical value. He frequently takes from the work of others, for example, his tree paintings recall Albert Oehlen’s own tree series, his use of yarn, is a nod to the women in his family who taught him how to stitch, and his unique way of combining and collaging visual references acknowledges his love of comic books as much as the work of the late artist Robert Rauschenberg.
Alvaro Barrington (b.1983) got his BA at Hunter College in New York, USA before moving to London in 2015 to complete his MFA at the Slade School of Art in 2017. Recent exhibitions include: 91-98 jfkllax border, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA (2022); La Vie en Rose, Galarie Thaddeus Ropax, Salzburg, Austria (2022); Mixing It Up: Painting Today, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2021); School Prints, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK (2021); Alvaro Barrington, MoMA PS1, New York, USA (2017) amongst others.
Alvaro Barrington (b.1983) got his BA at Hunter College in New York, USA before moving to London in 2015 to complete his MFA at the Slade School of Art in 2017. Recent exhibitions include: 91-98 jfkllax border, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA (2022); La Vie en Rose, Galarie Thaddeus Ropax, Salzburg, Austria (2022); Mixing It Up: Painting Today, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2021); School Prints, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK (2021); Alvaro Barrington, MoMA PS1, New York, USA (2017) amongst others.
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