Celia Álvarez Muñoz

This article is about Celia Álvarez Muñoz. For other uses, see Cecilia Muñoz.
Celia Álvarez Muñoz
Born
Celia Limón Álvarez

1937 (age 87–88)
El Paso, Texas
NationalityAmerican
Alma materNorth Texas State University
Stylephotography
conceptual art

Celia Álvarez Muñoz (born 1937) is a Chicana mixed-media conceptual Chicana artist and photographer based in Arlington, Texas.[1]

Early life and education

Álvarez Muñoz was born in El Paso, Texas, to Enriqueta Limón Alvarez and Francisco Pompa Alvarez.[1][2] She grew up in the Chihuahuita historical neighborhood of El Paso.[3] Prior to becoming an artist, Álvarez Muñoz worked as a fashion illustrator and an elementary school art educator.[4] She decided to commit to creating art in the 1970s, by 1977 she enrolled in graduate school to study art.[1][5] She earned a Masters of Fine Arts at North Texas State University in Denton, Texas.[6]

Work

Drawing on her experiences living near the US-Mexico border, Álvarez Muñoz's work addresses the tension between linguistic, cultural, and political worlds.[5] She often incorporates themes of family and "communal memories" in her work.[7] She uses text and images in her work to explore the ambiguous signs and signifiers where cultures meet, and to communicate stories of American history, culture, and society.[8] She has exhibited her work in museums and galleries in the U.S. and abroad, and is included in the collection of the Museum of New Mexico.[9]

Her work has been written about by art historians, Lucy Lippard, Benito Huerta, and others.[10][11][12] In Roberto Tejada's monograph on Muñoz, he includes a teaching guide (Vol. 3) using principles from her work in the teaching of multicultural art, and border issues.

In 2024, her work is included in Xican-a.o.x. Body a comprehensive group exhibition expanding on the Chicano experience and artistic practice as part of major art historical movements. The show included works from 1960s to the present and traveled from the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture at Riverside Art Museum, California, to the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida. The show was curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Marissa Del Toro, and Gilbert Vicario with accompanying catalog by The Chicago University Press.[13][14]

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Álvarez Muñoz has exhibited at;

References

  1. ^ a b c "Oral history interview with Celia Alvarez Muñoz, 2004 Feb. 7-28". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  2. ^ "Celia Álvarez Muñoz | Hammer Museum". hammer.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  3. ^ "TWC Alumna, 'Artivist' Earns Lifetime Achievement Award". UTEP. 13 (2): 51. Fall 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d e f FREUDENHEIM, SUSAN (March 3, 1991). "ART : Cultural Concepts : Celia Munoz draws on her childhood and heritage to tell stories in challenging, conceptual multimedia works". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  5. ^ a b A Ver teacher's guide: Celia Alvarez Muñoz (PDF). UCLA Chicano Studies Research Press & Regents of the University of California. 2010-01-01.
  6. ^ "Celia Alvarez Muñoz (American, 1937- )". Museum of New Mexico-Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  7. ^ Desert Modern and Beyond: El Paso Art 1960-2012. El Paso, Texas: El Paso Museum of Art. 2012. p. 32. ISBN 9780978538354.
  8. ^ Tejada, Roberto (2009). Celia Alvarez Muñoz. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-89551-112-6. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
  9. ^ "Celia Alvarez Muñoz". Idea Photographic: After Modernism. Museum of New Mexico. Archived from the original on 8 June 2022. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
  10. ^ Huerta, Benito (Fall 1999). "Celia Alvarez Muñoz". Art Lies: 59–62. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
  11. ^ Lippard, Lucy (1990). Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural Forum. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-1-56584-573-2. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
  12. ^ Lippard, Lucy (1996). Listening to Roswell's Heartbeat: Celia Muñoz's Herencia. New Mexico: Roswell Museum and Art Center.
  13. ^ "Xican-a.o.x. Body • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved 2024-09-17.
  14. ^ Fajardo-Hill, Cecilia; Del Toro, Marissa; Vicario, Gilbert; Chavez, Mike; Chavoya, C. Ondine; Salseda, Rose; Valencia, Joseph Daniel; Villaseñor Black, Charlene; Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, eds. (2024). Xican-a.o.x. body. New York, NY : Munich, Germany: American Federation of Arts ; Hirmer Publishers. ISBN 978-3-7774-4168-9. OCLC 1373831827.
  15. ^ "Celia Alvarez Munoz - Capp Street Project Archive". libraries.cca.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-09-21. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  16. ^ "Concentrations 26: Celia Alvarez Munoz, Abriendo Tierra/Breaking Ground". Texas History. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
  17. ^ Clark, Judi. "Celia Alvarez Muñoz: Stories Your Mother Never Told You - Lannan Foundation". www.lannan.org. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  18. ^ "Frontera 450+". Station Museum. Archived from the original on 2016-03-15. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  19. ^ "Chicana Badgirls: Las Hociconas". 516 ARTS. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  20. ^ "Rastros Y Crónicas: Mujeres De Juárez". Hispago.com (in Spanish). 2009-10-17. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  21. ^ Campana, Joseph (2012-04-06). "Photographs merge truth and illusion in Station Museum's Artifactual Realities". CultureMap Houston. CultureMap LLC. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
  22. ^ "Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo". Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA). 2014. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  23. ^ "Xican-a.o.x. Body • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved 2024-09-17.

Further reading

  • Roberto Tejada, Celia Alvarez Muñoz, University of Minnesota Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-89551-112-6
  • Fajardo-Hill, Cecilia; Del Toro, Marissa; Vicario, Gilbert; Chavez, Mike; Chavoya, C. Ondine; Salseda, Rose; Valencia, Joseph Daniel; Villaseñor Black, Charlene; Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, eds. (2024). Xican-a.o.x. body. New York, NY : Munich, Germany: American Federation of Arts ; Hirmer Publishers. ISBN 978-3-7774-4168-9. OCLC 1373831827