BIO

Juliana Morgan Alvarez (they/them, she/her, b. Miami, FL) is a performance and sculpture artist and writer. Their work investigates, with a keen wonderment toward natural phenomena, what happens to an object’s or a person’s relationship to itself and the outside world when confronted with friction and combustion. Their performances and work have been presented at the Wasmer Gallery in Fort Myers, OZ Arts in Nashville, Garden at Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles, CalArts Center for New Performance, and international film festivals, including East End Film Festival in London, Berlin Indie Film Festival, and QFF Mezipatra Prague Film Festival.

Select performances and work from the past year include: Live reading autobiographical work “Brute” at OZ Arts, group show at Julia Martin Gallery in Nashville, The Veteran feature film (dir. Jeremy Waltman; festival circuit 2024), Buchanan Arts Artist Fellow (2023 - 2024), STATE Artist Resident (2024 - 2025)

artist’s statement

My work is an exploration into slowness and surrender. Tediously shaping and smoothing 200 delicate tiles, then releasing them to flames and smoke. Introducing a new, barely breathing performance to a room of relative strangers and allowing their fidgeting, silent belches, laughter, and such to impact each lived moment. Diligent, intentional work that comes in conflict with elements and living others that cannot be controlled. A process that permanently alters, mars, and makes more beautiful the original idea/intention of an object/experience.

How does this history of contact create chains of connection through the objects and spaces we inhabit?