Pancho Alvarez Email & Phone Number

Pancho Alvarez graduated Bachelor of Arts, Major in Political Science from the Ateneo de Manila University in 2009, where he received the prestigious Loyola Schools Award for the Arts. He is a fellow of the 2023 Linangan Art Residency in the Philippines and a resident artist of the 2023 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency in Italy where he worked on Seasonal Adversities, a collaborative art project with poet Joel M. Toledo. Alvarez has done multiple solo and group exhibits both in the Philippines and abroad, including a recent one in the United Kingdom. He has authored a book of illustrated fiction, which will be translated into Czech and will be published in Czechia in 2024. Alvarez has constantly explored the effectiveness of visual communications by designing and creating covert art for books of various disciplines. His illustrations have been published in books and articles of national circulation. In 2021, one of his works was used as the main image in an event during the Art Basel in Miami, Florida.Alvarez continues to engage his community by providing art lessons through Tala Art Space, a creative venue he started in 2019. To this day, he remains committed in advocating for climate justice and decolonizing the Filipino amidst a world where culture is currency.

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  Ateneo De Manila University