Lisa Alvarado


Lisa Alvarado is an American painter and harmonium player.
Alvarado's paintings operate as stage sets, artworks, and ritual objects simultaneously, and engage with abstraction outside the parameters of western art history. Designed for meditative eye and ear consumption in accordance with music, her performative paintings often accompany the psych-minimalist ensemble Natural Information Society, for which Alvarado plays harmonium.

Life

Alvarado was born in San Antonio, Texas to a Tejano family. She studied at San Antonio College and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She joined Natural Information Society in 2010. Alvarado is represented by Bridget Donahue Gallery in New York.

Exhibitions and performances

Alvarado's recent solo exhibitions include 'Polyphonic Shadow Cloth,' LC Queisser, Tbilisi ; ‘Sound Talisman,’ Bridget Donahue, New York and ‘Traditional Object,’ Soccer Club Club, Chicago. Recent group exhibitions include 'Out of Easy Reach,' UIC, Chicago; 'Alan Shields Project,' Van Doren Waxter, New York'; Lisa Alvarado, Alex Olson, Daniel Sinsel,' Mary Mary, Glasgow ; ‘The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now,’ Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago ; ‘Material Issue,’ KMAC Museum, Louisville.
Selected performances include Palais de Tokyo, Paris ; Pitchfork, Chicago; Rewire, Netherlands ; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia ; Japan Society, New York; The Common Guild, Glasgow; Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal.

Discography

with Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society
  • Natural Information
  • Representing
  • Magnetoception
  • Automaginary,, Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas
  • Simultonality
  • Mandatory Reality