Álvaro Amat is an artist, design director, and educator. He collaborates with scientists, writers, media producers, and designers to create spaces in which narratives, objects, and experiences bring people together around critical questions about culture, nature, life, and reality. He is particularly interested in crossing boundaries between art-like and science-like modes of inquiry to explore the creation of knowledge that can inspire curiosity and creativity. His work has been shown in galleries in Chicago and Mexico City, and has been interviewed and published by The New York Times, Time-out Magazine and The Chicago Tribune. He has taught and lectured in Chicago, Madrid, Mexico City, Houston and Seattle. He advises artists, cultural centers, government agencies, and educational institutions in the creation of interpretive programs for the public understanding of complex and controversial issues.He has a Master of Arts in Art Education (2013, School of the Art Institute of Chicago), a Bachelors in Fine Arts (2007, School of the Art Institute of Chicago) and a Bachelors in Architecture, (1997, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico). In 2007, after 20 years of experience as an architect and academic in Mexico and Spain, he became the design director at the Field Museum, where he has created 10 large permanent Exhibitions like The Cyrus Tang Hall of China, The Grainger Hall of Gems, The Abbott Hall of Conservation: Restoring Earth, and The Pritzker DNA Lab. He has completed over 80 temporary exhibitions, including Scenes from the Stone Age: The Cave Paintings of Lascaux, China’s First Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors, Ancient Mediterranean Cultures in Contact, and The Machine Inside, Biomechanics. He led the implementation of the new brand for the museum and designed a completely renovated visitor experience for the main hall of the Field Museum, with the largest interior hanging 3D-printed hydroponic gardens in the world.
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