Flor Alvarado is a visual artist, anti-racist activist and member of Identidad Marrón Collective.
She works from a brown-indigenous perspective located in the city's peripheral neighborhoods, where she was born and raised by her Bolivian migrant family. Her explorations focus on racialized femininity and the tension with the idea of a ‘white Argentina’ that descends from european immigrants.
Taking drawing as her laboratory and starting point, she articulates painting, photography, and performance as languages that allow her to expand intimacy to a collective experience. In her work, objects (hollow bricks, potatoes, clay, wire) are part of a reality in which she creates her own off-centered aesthetic from a precarious environment. Through their materiality and content, she reflects the unfinished process of modernity and contexts that represent fields of friction.
She explores objects with corporeal qualities that belong to specific backgrounds. As an answer to the status quo, she places them in situations that differ from those expected, mocking the purpose they are intended to serve. Desire, fantasy, contradiction, and humor emerge as tools to reclaim not only meanings but also the prejudices that restrain them.
Bio
Flor Alvarado (Villa Soldati, Buenos Aires, 1996). She completed her Bachelor of Visual Arts studies at the UNA (National University of Arts). She is currently participating in the Torcuato Di Tella University Artist Program (2025-2026).
Flor has led various workshops, talks, and workshops with artistic and educational institutions as part of the anti-racist collective Identidad Marrón.
Her solo exhibitions include Mujer Ladrillo (Selvanegra Gallery, 2025), Anatomía del Goce (Museo de las Mujeres, Córdoba City, 2023), and Marrona (Sala Peluche, 2023). Some of the group exhibitions in which she participated were: Sueños de Venus (Puy Larrosa Galeria, 2024), Tierna Tortura de la Pintura (Mite 2024), Luminic Festival (Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, 2022), 8M Award (CCK, 2022), Cinceles de la Otredad (Museo de la Cárcova, 2021), Para Todes, Tode (CCK, 2020).
Thanks to the support of scholarships, she participated in the residencies Las Cuevas (Córdoba, 2024) and Puertos Sur a Süd (Goethe Institut, 2023). In 2024, she was awarded the Work Production Grant at the Biennial of Women in the Visual Arts.
She worked as a researcher on the CARLA Project (Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America) in collaboration with the Identidad Marrón Collective, the University of Manchester, and UNSAM from 2021 to 2022. She also curated the exhibition HIJXS/SEMILLA and traveled to the University of Manchester to participate in the CARLA Symposium.
CV
Studies
Artists Program | Torcuato Di Tella University / 2025-2026
Thesis Student at UNA (National University of Arts) Bachelor's Degree in Visual Arts with a Focus on Drawing / 2017-2024
Residencies
Las Cuevas Art Residency / 2024
Habitat Space Residency / 2024
Puertos Sur a Süd Residency, Goethe Institute / 2023
Awards
2nd Mention, in Prilidiano Pueyrredón Award, National University of Arts (UNA) / 2022
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
Mujer Ladrillo | Selvanegra Gallery, Buenos Aires / 2025
Marrona | Sala Peluche, Buenos Aires / 2023
Anatomía del goce | Museum of Women, City of Córdoba / 2023
Group Exhibitions
Selvanegra Gallery / ArteBA Main Stage, Buenos Aires / 2025
Otras formas posibles III / ELA Team ArteBA, Buenos Aires / 2025
Lo que vemos es lo que nos mira / ArtexArte, Buenos Aires / 2025
FAUNA (Artistic Festival of the National University of Arts), Buenos Aires / 2025
Otras historias posibles II / ArteBA, Buenos Aires / 2024
Sueños de Venus /Puy Larrosa Gallery, La Rioja / 2024
Tierna Tortura de la Pintura / Mite Gallery, Buenos Aires /2024.
HIJXS/SEMILLA, Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America (CARLA) Project / University of Manchester, UK / 2022
Luminic Festival / Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain / 2022
8M Award / Kirchner Cultural Center, Buenos Aires / 2022.
Cinceles de la otredad / Museo de la Cárcova, Buenos Aires / 2021
Para Todes Tode / Kirchner Cultural Center, Buenos Aires / 2021
Seminars and critiques
Paula Baró Seminar / 2024-2025
Santiago Villanueva and Marcela Sinclair Seminar / 2025
Manuel Ameztoy Critique / 2024
Workshops
Printmaking workshop with Patricio Bosch / 2019
Enameling on copper workshop | Bulnes Ceramics School / 2017
Courses
Annual Seminar Look Again: Reinterpretations of the Third Eye Exhibition and the MALBA Collection / March-July 2025
Live Model Drawing Class with Tomas Fraccia, Rojas Cultural Center / 2018
Scholarships
Scholarship to participate in Torcuato Di Tella University’s Artists Program / 2025-2026
Work Production Grant, Women in the Visual Arts Biennial / 2024
Lectures, Research & Collaborative Projects
Lecture: Cruce Epistolar Soy marrón, FILBA MALBA / 2025
Guest speaker for the course Culture and Civilization of Argentina, Cea Capa, Buenos Aires / 2025
Conference about Identidad Marrón Collective / National University of Arts - Department of Visual Arts / Buenos Aires / 2025
Coordinator of Visual Arts Activities at Identidad Marrón Collective / 2020-2025
Speaker at the presentation of the book Diversity and Latin American Art: Stories of Artists Who Broke the Glass Ceiling by Andrea Giunta / MALBA / 2024
Coordinator of the workshop Making Posters, Making History as part of Rosana Paulino's Amefricana exhibition, MALBA / 2024.
Theoretical and practical training on Brown Archetypes in art in the Specialized Teaching Course in Art Education, Juan Manuel Labarden Vocational Art Institute, Buenos Aires / 2023
Anti-racist drawing workshops at the National Museum of Decorative Art and Recoleta Cultural Center / Ricardo Rojas Museum, Palais de Glace / 2023-2021
Participation at the Theoretical-Practical Workshop Strategies for Activism from the Peripheries, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia (online) / 2023
Speaker at CARLA Project Symposium, University of Manchester, UK / 2022
Panelist at the GADU First Congress on Gender and Design / University of Buenos Aires / 2022
Performer in El Viaje, site-specific performance by Utópico Collective, co-production LODO/Pro Helvetia/FIBA, Buenos Aires / 2022
Researcher at CARLA Project, carried out in conjunction with the University of Manchester, University of San Martín, and Identidad Marrón Collective, International (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and UK) / 2021
Curator of the anti-racist virtual exhibition HIJXS/SEMILLA, part of the CARLA Project, available on the University of Manchester website / 2021
Compiled and edited text for the book Brown People Write, CARLA Project / 2021
Indigenous Brown People in Art: A Critical Look at Representations and Archetypes workshop / Ricardo Rojas Museum, Buenos Aires / 2020
Speaker Empower and Positivize: The Creation of a New Imaginary, Women Leadership Day on Facebook, International / 2020
Speaker at the Conversation Art, Racism, and Technology: Other Forms of Resistance, Byte Footage Festival / 2020
Workshop leader on Racism and Human Rights, Amnesty International's, Buenos Aires / 2020
Workshop leader on Is art in Argentina only a white profession?, at the Feminist School of Painting by Ad Minoliti, Buenos Aires / 2019
Speaker at Can Beauty Be Brown? Haroldo Conti Cultural Memory Center, Buenos Aires / 2019