Education
2014 MFA, Photography, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2011 BFA, Film Studies, Summa Cum Laude, CUNY Hunter College, New York, NY
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2023 Signs of Autumn at Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY
Bellona, Barely Fair, Chicago, IL
2022 Post-industrial Digital Dysmorphia: Nando Alvarez-Perez & Joiri Minaya, Lydian Stater Gallery, New York City, NY
2021 Doodle Portal, A public project for Buffalo Central Terminal, Buffalo, NY
Confessions from the Imperial Core, Agatha’s Studio, Buffalo, NY
2020 Eternal Flame, Nichols School, Buffalo, NY
2018 Highlights, Play/Ground, Medina, NY
2017 A History of the Idea of Progress, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Portentology, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA
Post-industrial Living Situation II (The Future Was an Open Space), Material Art Fair, Mexico City, Mexico
Post-industrial Living Situation I (Self-Centered World), UNTITLED SF, San Francisco, CA
2016 Still Life/Nature Morte, Tmoro Projects, Santa Clara, CA
Space Objects: Nando Alvarez-Perez & Marcel Freymond, Kulturfolger at Egg n' Spoon Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Post-industrial Polylith I (Curio of Curios), John McNeil Studio, Berkeley, CA
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
Lacuna, Paul Sack Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 First Exposures, Turner Gallery, Alfred, NY
New Shapes from Old Tropes curated by John Massier, Marion Art Gallery, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY
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
Re: Art 21 curated by Efrem Zelony-Mindel, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Skin Deep, Skimming the Pages, Drake One Fifty, Toronto, Canada
Young Collector's Club, Inaugural Edition, R/SF Projects, San Francisco, CA
Insights: New Approaches to Photography Since 2000, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
2016 Untitled Group Show, Kulturfolger at Jules Maeght Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Art Book Show, Bass & Reiner Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group show juried by Arpad Kovacs, LA Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Salón Boricua, 4th Poly/Graphic Triennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Parking Lot Art Fair, Fort Mason Parking Lot, San Francisco, CA
Radical Color, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
2014 Bang!, Bass & Reiner Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Time/Space, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Refraction, Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA
Currently Untitled, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 A Hole Lot About Nothing, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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
Public Commissions
2021 Doodle Portal, Buffalo Central Terminal, Buffalo, NY (through 2023)
2020 One Month Museum, part of Proximity, Buffalo, NY
2019 Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada (ongoing)
2018 Walled Garden, Drake One Fifty, Toronto, Canada
Art Fairs
2024 Rivalry Projects, NADA, New York City, NY
2023 Rivalry Projects, Barely Fair, Chicago, IL
2018 Interface Gallery, UNTITLED, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2017 City Limits Gallery, Material Art Fair, Mexico City, Mexico
Insights Public Exhibition, Photofairs San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Interface Gallery, UNTITLED, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Professional & Teaching Experience
2022– Visiting Assistant Professor, Photography, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2019 – Co-founder & Editor in Chief, Cornelia Magazine, Buffalo, NY
2018 – Co-founder & Director, The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo NY
2021 Visiting Faculty, Foundations Design II, Daemen College, Amherst, NY
Visiting Faculty, Intro Photo, Daemen College, Amherst, NY
2020 Visiting Faculty, Contemporary Photographic Practice & Senior Thesis, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2019 Visiting Faculty, Intro Photo, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
2018 Visiting Faculty, Photo Core I & II, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Visiting Faculty, Intro to Digital Photo, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Instructor, Graduate Summer Intensive, Repurposing the Archive, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
2017 Visiting Faculty, Spring Semester, Tools 3: Advanced Digital Photo, California College for the Arts, Oakland, CA
2016 Instructor, Photoshop and Lightroom 1, Berkeley Student Union, University of California, Berkeley, CA
2014 – 2018 Photography Operations Creative Lead, Airbnb, San Francisco, CA
2014 Visiting Faculty, Photography as a Daily Practice, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Teaching Assistant to Sean McFarland, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2013 Teaching Assistant to Thom Sempere, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Honors, Residencies & Fellowships
2022 Artist in Residence, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
2017 Project Space Residency, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
2017 Fellowship at La Escuela de Arte Útil with Tania Bruguera, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2015 Exhibition Award, CEPA Gallery (Juried by Cathleen Chaffee, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo NY)
2012 Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Photography, The San Francisco Art Institute
Selected Bibliography
2023 Kelsey Sucena, “Harvesting Data: American Hegemony and the Course of Empire,” Rivalry Projects Exhibition Publication
Andrea Alvarez, “Nando Alvarez-Perez and the Flatbed Picture Plane,” Contact Sheet
Erin Toale, “Top 5 Booths at Barely Fair 2023,” New City Art
2022 “Episode 53: The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art,” Money on the Left
Paul Knopf, “What the heck is BICA School,” Cornelia Magazine
Elizabeth Fazzare, “Shulamit Nazarian Gallery Co-Owner Seth Curcio Collects Art to Mark His Own History,” Cultured Magazine
David Walsh, “Students, graduates, artists oppose the closing of the San Francisco Art Institute,” World Socialist Website
Bianca Abdi-Boragi, “Joiri Minaya and Nando Alvarez-Perez’s Sublime and Mysterious Grid,” CultBytes
Julia Dzwonkoski, “Trip Out with Mice: Nando Alvarez-Perez at Agatha’s,” Cornelia Magazine
John Massier, “New Shapes from Old Tropes,” Marion Art Gallery Exhibition Catalog
2019 Anna Lee, “Construction and Revelation,” Radial Survey Vol. 1, Silver Eye Center for Photography
Annie Bielski, “On Starting an Arts and Education Project in a Rust Belt City,” The Creative Independent
Louis Vargas, Episode 40: BICA with Nando Alvarez-Perez and Emily Reynolds,” The Art Scene Podcast
2018 “In Their Own Words: Photo-Artists from This is Not Here: RE 21,” The In-Between Journal of New Media and Photography
2017 “Portentology,” VSCO Arts and Culture Community Spotlight
Forrest McGarvey, “Nando Alvarez-Perez: Portentology,” Art Practical
Kelsey Lannin, “9 Eye-Grabbing Works from Untitled SF,” Vice Creators Project
Louis Vargas, “Episode 18: Nando Alvarez-Perez #2,” The Art Scene Podcast
Leora Lutz, “Business by the Bay - UNTITLED SF Highlight,” ArtNews
“Preview: UNTITLED, San Francisco,” Elephant
2016 Louis Vargas, “Episode 3: Nando Alvarez-Perez,” The Art Scene Podcast
“Edition 5: Nando Alvarez-Perez,” Limited Edition Gallery Interview Series, John McNeil Studio
Conor Moynihan, “Totems by Nando Alvarez-Perez,” Buffalo Magazine
Tina Dillman, “Artist Profile: Nando Alvarez-Perez Reconfiguring the Archive,” Buffalo Rising
2015 Cole Don Kelley and Jessica Dean Camp, “Nando Alvarez-Perez,” Don/Dean Blog
Sarah Hotchkiss, “Shotgun Review:...And as it Passed it Cast a Long Shadow,” Art Practical
A. Will Brown, “Fan Mail: Nando Alvarez-Perez,” Daily Serving
Ellyn Kail, "'Radical Color' Exhibition Features Eye-Popping Hues," Feature Shoot
Jon Feinstein, "Radical Color: A Continuous Black Hole," Humble Arts Foundation
2014 Aaron Harbour, “Best of 2014,” Curiously Direct
Lectures, Presentations, and Workshops
2024 Presenter, Uniting on the High Road Conference, Cornell University ILR Buffalo Co-Lab and Partnership for the Public Good, Buffalo, NY
BICA School: Higher Ed for Everyone,
2023 Guest Lecturer, Graduate Seminar, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
BICA School: Imagining New Models for Artist Provisioning, Department of Economics, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY
2022 Artist Talk, School of Art and Design, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2021 Artist Talk, Contemporary Photographic Practice Class, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Artist Talk, Alfred University MFA Program, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Confessions from the Imperial Core Artist Talk, Agatha’s, Buffalo, NY
Lighting Workshop, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
2019 Unwinding Definitions: Construction and Revelations, Radial Survey Symposium, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA
Exhibition Etiquette for Visual Artists, ASI Creative Professionals Exchange, Buffalo, NY
2017 Artist In Residence Artist Talk, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
2016 Lecture on Post-Industrial Polylith 1, John McNeil Studio, Berkeley, CA
Guest Lecturer, PH-303 Methods of Display w/John Priola, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2015 Guest Lecturer, Airbnb Art Department, San Francisco, CA
Guest Lecturer, Expanded Image, Professor Aaron Terry, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Guest Lecturer, The Modern Tableau, Professor Ivan Iannoli, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2014 Guest Lecturer, Intro to Digital Photo, Professor Josh Smith, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Guest Lecturer, Visual Translations, Professor John Priola, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Publications
2022 “Confessions from the Imperial Core,” Precog Magazine
“Imagining Infinite Care: Sovereignty and Money in Kyla Kegler’s Mountains 2,” Cornelia Magazine
2020 “Azoth,” Self-published photo book
2019 “Hito Steyerl, Hell Yeah We Fuck Die,” Cornelia Magazine
“Vital Geometry and the Magic of Completion,” Self-published photo book
“Nathan Lyons, Untitled (Tucson),” Cornelia Magazine
2017 “Alpine Shadow Black Madonna,” Self-published photo book
2014 “Lacuna,” Self-published photo book
Service & DEAI Experience
2022 Community Conversation Participant, HueArts NYS
2021 Curatorial tour of Lex Brown’s exhibition at BICA, Buffalo Center for Art and Technology
Curatorial Consultant on Radial Survey Vol. 2, Silver Eye Center for Photography
SCR Grant Juror Panel, Art Services Initiative of Western New York
2020 Guest artist and workshop lead, Matt Urban Hope Center Summer Program
The Committee to Reimagine SFAI, The San Francisco Art Institute
2019 Of/By/For All Training with The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art
Curatorial Projects
2023 - 2024 (forthcoming) I Want to Believe: Shana Moulton, Jenine Marsh, and Huidi Xiang, The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY
2022 – 2023 Recovering Futures: Chrysanne Stathacos, TJ Shin, and Sofía Córdova, The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY
2021 – 2022 Recreation: DJ Carr, Julie Henson, and Ryan Huff, The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY
2020 – 2022 Humor as a Tool: Carlos Franco Maldonado, Lex Brown, Mads Lynnerup, The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY
2019 – 2020 The Institution: BONANZA, Lindsay Preston-Zappas, Rachel Fein-Smolinski, The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY