Education
2014 MFA, Photography, San Francisco Art Institute
2011 BFA, Film Studies, Summa Cum Laude, CUNY Hunter College
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2022 Post-industrial Digital Dysmorphia w/Joiri Minaya - Lydian Stater Gallery - New York City, NY
2021 Doodle Portal - A public project for Buffalo Central Terminal - Buffalo, NY
2021 Confessions from the Imperial Core - Agatha’s Studio - Buffalo, NY
2020 Eternal Flame - Nichols School - Buffalo, NY
2018 Highlights - BICA at Play/Ground - Medina, NY
2017 A History of the Idea of Progress - Visual Studies Workshop - Rochester, NY
2017 Portentology - Interface Gallery - Oakland, CA
2017 Post-industrial Living Situation II (The Future Was an Open Space) - Material Art Fair - CDMX, MX
2017 Post-industrial Living Situation I (Self-Centered World) - UNTITLED SF - San Francisco, CA
2016 Still Life/Nature Morte - Tmoro Projects - Santa Clara, CA
2016 Space Objects w/Marcel Freymond - Kulturfolger at Egg n' Spoon Gallery - Zurich, CH
2016 Post-industrial Polylith I (Curio of Curios) - John McNeil Studio - Berkeley, CA
2016 Totems for a Flattened Now - CEPA Gallery - Buffalo, NY
2015 ...And as it Passed it Cast a Long Shadow - 100% Gallery - San Francisco, CA
2014 Vital Geometry and the Magic of Completion - League Gallery - Berkeley, CA
2014 Lacuna - Paul Sack Gallery - San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Breaking the Material Plane - Rivalry Projects - Buffalo, NY
2019 Radial Survey Inaugural Biennial Exhibition - Silver Eye Center for Photography - Pittsburgh, PA
2018 Untitled Group Exhibition - Drake Hotel - Toronto, CAN
2018 Re: Art 21 - Pfizer Building - Brooklyn, NY
2017 Skin Deep, Skimming the Pages - Drake One Fifty - Toronto, CAN
2017 Young Collector's Club, Inaugural Edition - R/SF Projects - San Francisco, CA
2017 Insights: New Approaches to Photography Since 2000 - San Francisco, CA
2016 Untitled Group Show - Kulturfolger at Jules Maeght Gallery - San Francisco, CA
2016 Art Book Show - Bass & Reiner Gallery - San Francisco, CA
2016 Group show juried by Arpad Kovacs - LA Center for Digital Art - Los Angeles, CA
2015 Salón Boricua - 4th Poly/Graphic Triennial - San Juan, PR
2015 Parking Lot Art Fair - Fort Mason Parking Lot - San Francisco, CA
2015 Radical Color - Newspace Center for Photography - Portland, OR
2014 Bang! - Bass & Reiner Gallery - San Francisco, CA
2014 Time/Space - Diego Rivera Gallery - San Francisco, CA
2014 SFiCA Presents "Refraction" - Lobot Gallery - Oakland, CA
2014 Currently Untitled - Swell Gallery - San Francisco, CA
2013 A Hole Lot About Nothing - Swell Gallery - San Francisco, CA
2013 Fabricated To Be Photographed - 1038SF - San Francisco, CA
2012 The Artist Among Us - Burchfield-Penney Art Center - Buffalo, NY
2011 Rapture/Rupture - Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center - Buffalo, NY
Residencies and Fellowships
2022 Artist in Residence - Light Work - Syracuse, NY
2017 Project Space Residency at the VSW - Visual Studies Workshop - Rochester, NY
2017 Fellowship at La Escuela de Arte Útil with Tania Bruguera - YBCA - San Francisco, CA
Art Fairs
2018 Untitled SF with Interface Gallery - San Francisco, CA
2017 Material Art Fair with City Limits Gallery - CDMX, MX
2017 Photofairs SF as part of the Insights public exhibition
2017 Untitled SF with Interface Gallery - San Francisco, CA
Teaching Experience and Lectures
2022 Visiting Assistant Professor - Drawing, Painting, and Photography - Alfred University
2020 Visiting Faculty - Contemporary Photographic Practice & Senior Thesis - Alfred University
2019 Visiting Faculty - Intro Photo - University of Rochester
2018 Visiting Faculty - Photo Core I & II - Visual Studies Workshop
2018 Visiting Faculty - Intro to Digital Photo - Alfred University
2018 Instructor, Graduate Summer Intensive - Repurposing the Archive - Visual Studies Workshop
2017 Visiting Faculty, Spring Semester - Tools 3: Advanced Digital Photo - CCA
2016 Instructor, Photoshop and Lightroom 1 at the Berkeley Student Union - UC Berkeley
2016 Lecture on Post-Industrial Polylith 1 - John McNeil Studio
2016 Guest Lecturer, PH-303 Methods of Display w/John Priola - San Francisco Art Institute
2015 Guest Lecturer - Airbnb Art Department
2015 Guest Lecturer PH-303 Expanded Image w/Aaron Terry - San Francisco Art Institute
2015 Guest Lecturer PH-203 The Modern Tableau w/Ivan Iannoli - San Francisco Art Institute
2014 Guest Lecturer PH-101 Intro to Digital Photo w/Josh Smith - San Francisco Art Institute
2014 Guest Lecturer PH-205 Visual Translations w/John Priola- San Francisco Art Institute
2014 Visiting Faculty - Photography as a Daily Practice - San Francisco Art Institute
2014 Spring Semester, Teaching Asst. to Sean McFarland - San Francisco Art Institute
2013 Spring Semester, Teaching Asst. to Thom Sempere - San Francisco Art Institute
Awards
2015 Exhibition Award - CEPA Gallery - Juried by Cathleen Chaffee
2012 Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Photography - San Francisco Art Institute
News
2022 Cultured Magazine - Shulamit Nazarian Gallery Co-Owner Seth Curcio Collects Art to Mark His Own History
2022 World Socialist Website - Students, graduates, artists oppose the closing of the San Francisco Art Institute
2022 Cultbytes - Joiri Minaya and Nando Alvarez-Perez’s Sublime and Mysterious Grid
2019 The Creative Independent - On Starting an Arts and Education Project in a Rust Belt City
2018 In the In-Between Journal of New and New Media Photography - In their Own Words
2017 VSCO - Arts and Culture Community Spotlight - Portentology
2017 Creator's Project - 9 Eye-Grabbing Works from Untitled SF
2017 Artnews.com - Business by the Bay - UNTITLED SF Highlight
2017 Elephant Magazine - Preview: UNTITLED SF
2016 The Art Scene Podcast - Episode 3: Nando Alvarez-Perez
2016 Limited Edition Gallery at John McNeil Studio Interview Series
2016 PDN Photo of the Day for 2/16/16
2016 Buffalo News - Review of Totems - by Conor Moynihan (Full Interview Here)
2016 Buffalo Rising - Artist Profile and Interview
2015 Don/Dean Blog - Interview by Cole Don Kelley and Jessica Dean Camp
2015 Art Practical - Shotgun Review by Sarah Hotchkiss - “Long Shadow” at 100% Gallery
2015 Capricious NY Blog - Photographer of the Week #78 April 29, 2015
2015 Dailyserving.com - Fan Mail: Nando Alvarez-Perez - essay by A. Will Brown
2015 Featureshoot.com - "'Radical Color' Exhibition Features Eye-Popping Hues"
2015 Humble Arts Foundation - Group Show 44: "Radical Color"
2014 Curiously Direct's Best of 2014 for "Vital Geometry" at League Gallery
2014 San Francisco Art Enthusiast "Bang!" Photo Feature
2014 Oranbeg Press Issue 12 "The Anti-Portrait" (p.5)