Born in Brooklyn, NY, Cándida Álvarez studied at the Mohegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received her MFA from the Yale University School of Art. Her solo exhibitions include Paradise at the Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Polytychs at the June Kelly Gallery, NY; and Recent Paintings at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY. Álvarez has participated in group exhibitions including Bronx Bound at the Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY; All the Things We Love at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, and Splat, Boom, Pow: The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art at the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX. Her work is in many collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC; El Museo del Barrio, NYC; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC, and The Printmaking Workshop, NYC. Álvarez' recent public art commissioned by the Metropolitan Transit Authority's Arts for Transit program is installed at the Bronx Park East Station of the #2 and #5 lines in the Bronx.

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