Celia Álvarez Muñoz Explained

Celia Álvarez Muñoz
Birth Name:Celia Limón Álvarez
Birth Place:El Paso, Texas
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:North Texas State University
Style:photography
conceptual art

Celia Álvarez Muñoz (born 1937) is a Chicana mixed-media conceptual Chicana artist and photographer based in Arlington, Texas.[1]

Early life and education

Álvarez Muñoz was born in El Paso, Texas, to Enriqueta Limón Alvarez and Francisco Pompa Alvarez.[2] She grew up in the Chihuahuita historical neighborhood of El Paso.[3] Prior to becoming an artist, Álvarez Muñoz worked as a fashion illustrator and an elementary school art educator.[4] She decided to commit to creating art in the 1970s, by 1977 she enrolled in graduate school to study art.[5] She earned a Masters of Fine Arts at North Texas State University in Denton, Texas.[6]

Work

Drawing on her experiences living near the US-Mexico border, Álvarez Muñoz's work addresses the tension between linguistic, cultural, and political worlds. She often incorporates themes of family and "communal memories" in her work.[7] She uses text and images in her work to explore the ambiguous signs and signifiers where cultures meet, and to communicate stories of American history, culture, and society.[8] She has exhibited her work in museums and galleries in the U.S. and abroad, and is included in the collection of the Museum of New Mexico.[9]

Her work has been written about by art historians, Lucy Lippard, Benito Huerta, and others.[10] [11] [12] In Roberto Tejada's monograph on Muñoz, he includes a teaching guide (Vol. 3) using principles from her work in the teaching of multicultural art, and border issues.

In 2024, her work is included in Xican-a.o.x. Body a comprehensive group exhibition expanding on the Chicano experience and artistic practice as part of major art historical movements. The show included works from 1960s to the present and traveled from the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture at Riverside Art Museum, California, to the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida. The show was curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Marissa Del Toro, and Gilbert Vicario with accompanying catalog by The Chicago University Press.[13] [14]

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Álvarez Muñoz has exhibited at;

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Oral history interview with Celia Alvarez Muñoz, 2004 Feb. 7-28. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. 2016-03-15.
  2. Web site: Celia Álvarez Muñoz Hammer Museum. hammer.ucla.edu. en. 2020-03-17.
  3. Fall 2021. TWC Alumna, 'Artivist' Earns Lifetime Achievement Award. UTEP. 13. 2. 51.
  4. News: FREUDENHEIM. SUSAN. ART : Cultural Concepts : Celia Munoz draws on her childhood and heritage to tell stories in challenging, conceptual multimedia works. 5 March 2016. Los Angeles Times. March 3, 1991.
  5. Book: A Ver teacher's guide: Celia Alvarez Muñoz. UCLA Chicano Studies Research Press & Regents of the University of California. 2010-01-01.
  6. Web site: Celia Alvarez Muñoz (American, 1937-). Museum of New Mexico-Museum of Fine Arts. 5 March 2016.
  7. Book: Desert Modern and Beyond: El Paso Art 1960-2012. El Paso Museum of Art. 2012. 9780978538354. El Paso, Texas. 32.
  8. Book: Tejada. Roberto. Celia Alvarez Muñoz. 2009. University of Minnesota Press. 978-0-89551-112-6. 27 December 2016.
  9. Web site: Celia Alvarez Muñoz . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220608014146/https://www.newmexicoculture.org/mfa/ideaphotographic/artists_munoz.html . 8 June 2022 . 27 December 2016 . Idea Photographic: After Modernism . Museum of New Mexico.
  10. Huerta. Benito. Celia Alvarez Muñoz. Art Lies. Fall 1999. 59–62. 27 December 2016.
  11. Book: Lippard. Lucy. Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural Forum. 1990. Pantheon Books. New York. 978-1-56584-573-2. 27 December 2016.
  12. Book: Lippard. Lucy. Listening to Roswell's Heartbeat: Celia Muñoz's Herencia. 1996. Roswell Museum and Art Center. New Mexico.
  13. Web site: Xican-a.o.x. Body • Pérez Art Museum Miami . 2024-09-17 . Pérez Art Museum Miami . en-US.
  14. Book: Xican-a.o.x. body . 2024 . American Federation of Arts ; Hirmer Publishers . 978-3-7774-4168-9 . Fajardo-Hill . Cecilia . New York, NY : Munich, Germany . on1373831827 . Del Toro . Marissa . Vicario . Gilbert . Chavez . Mike . Chavoya . C. Ondine . Salseda . Rose . Valencia . Joseph Daniel . Villaseñor Black . Charlene . Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum.
  15. Web site: Celia Alvarez Munoz - Capp Street Project Archive. libraries.cca.edu. 2016-03-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20170921095002/http://libraries-archive.cca.edu/capp/celia_alvarez_munoz.html. 2017-09-21. dead.
  16. Web site: Concentrations 26: Celia Alvarez Munoz, Abriendo Tierra/Breaking Ground. Texas History. 2016-03-14.
  17. Web site: Celia Alvarez Muñoz: Stories Your Mother Never Told You - Lannan Foundation. Clark. Judi. www.lannan.org. 2016-03-15.
  18. Web site: Frontera 450+. Station Museum. 2016-03-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20160315151059/http://stationmuseum.com/index.php/exhibitions/19-exhibitions/219-frontera-450. 2016-03-15. dead.
  19. Web site: Chicana Badgirls: Las Hociconas. 516 ARTS. 2016-03-15.
  20. Web site: Rastros Y Crónicas: Mujeres De Juárez. 2009-10-17. Hispago.com. es. 2016-03-15.
  21. Web site: Photographs merge truth and illusion in Station Museum's Artifactual Realities. Campana. Joseph. 2012-04-06. CultureMap Houston. CultureMap LLC. 2016-03-14.
  22. Web site: Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo. 2014. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA). 2016-03-15.
  23. Web site: Xican-a.o.x. Body • Pérez Art Museum Miami . 2024-09-17 . Pérez Art Museum Miami . en-US.

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