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Celia Álvarez Muñoz

Celia Álvarez Muñoz

American artist

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

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

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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 her Masters of Fine Arts at North Texas State University, Denton.[6]

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.

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Álvarez Muñoz has exhibited at;

References

  1. [1]
    "Oral history interview with Celia Alvarez Muñoz, 2004 Feb. 7-28". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  2. [2]
    "Celia Álvarez Muñoz | Hammer Museum". hammer.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
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    "TWC Alumna, 'Artivist' Earns Lifetime Achievement Award". UTEP. 13 (2): 51. Fall 2021.
  4. [4]
    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.
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    A Ver teacher's guide: Celia Alvarez Muñoz (PDF). UCLA Chicano Studies Research Press & Regents of the University of California. 2010-01-01.
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    "Celia Alvarez Muñoz (American, 1937- )". Museum of New Mexico-Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  7. [7]
    Desert Modern and Beyond: El Paso Art 1960-2012. El Paso, Texas: El Paso Museum of Art. 2012. p. 32. ISBN 9780978538354.
  8. [8]
    Tejada, Roberto (2009). Celia Alvarez Muñoz. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-89551-112-6. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
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    "Celia Alvarez Muñoz". Idea Photographic: After Modernism. Museum of New Mexico. Archived from the original on 8 June 2022. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
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    Huerta, Benito (Fall 1999). "Celia Alvarez Muñoz". Art Lies: 59–62. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
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    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. [12]
    Lippard, Lucy (1996). Listening to Roswell's Heartbeat: Celia Muñoz's Herencia. New Mexico: Roswell Museum and Art Center.
  13. [13]
    "Celia Alvarez Munoz - Capp Street Project Archive". libraries.cca.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-09-21. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  14. [14]
    "Concentrations 26: Celia Alvarez Munoz, Abriendo Tierra/Breaking Ground". Texas History. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
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    Clark, Judi. "Celia Alvarez Muñoz: Stories Your Mother Never Told You - Lannan Foundation". www.lannan.org. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
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    "Frontera 450+". Station Museum. Archived from the original on 2016-03-15. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
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    "Chicana Badgirls: Las Hociconas". 516 ARTS. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
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    "Rastros Y Crónicas: Mujeres De Juárez". Hispago.com (in Spanish). 2009-10-17. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
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    Campana, Joseph (2012-04-06). "Photographs merge truth and illusion in Station Museum's Artifactual Realities". CultureMap Houston. CultureMap LLC. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
  20. [20]
    "Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo". Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA). 2014. Retrieved 2016-03-15.

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