JUAN ALONSO-RODÍGUEZ
BORN: 1956, Havana, CUBA
EDUCATION: Self-taught
AWARDS:
2021 UW Libraries Artists Images Lecturer, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2020 Joan Mitchell Foundation 2020 Painters & Sculptors Grant Nominee
2019 Governor’s Arts Award - Individual, ArtsWA, Washington State
Artist Trust Fellowship, Artist Trust, Washington State
4Culture 2019 Art Projects Grant: Individuals, 4Culture, King County, WA
Joan Mitchell Foundation 2019 Painters & Sculptors Grant Nominee
2017 Conductive Garboil Grant, Estate of Su Job, Seattle, WA
2016 Dejunius Hughes Award for Activism, Artspace, Minneapolis, MN
2015 Artist in Residence, Town Hall Seattle, Seattle, WA
Seattle Presents Gallery Residency, Office of Arts & Culture, Seattle, WA
2013 4-Culture - Special Projects Grant, King County, WA
2012 Special Projects Grant, Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, Seattle, WA
2011 Individual Artist Grant, 4Culture, King County, WA
2010 City of Seattle Mayor’s Arts Award, Seattle, WA
GAP (Grants for Artist’s Projects), Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
2007 Artist of the Year, PONCHO (Patrons of Northwest Civic, Cultural and Charitable Organizations)
2006 4-Culture - Special Projects Grant, King County, WA
2004 City Artists Program - Special Projects Grant, City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs
1999 GAP (Grants for Artist’s Projects), Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
Sustaining Purchase Award, Seattle Collects, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
1997 The Neddy Artist Fellowship, Behnke Foundation, Seattle, WA
1996 Neddy Award Nominee, Behnke Foundation, Seattle, WA
Special Projects Grant, King County Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
Northwest New Works Grant, On The Boards, Seattle, WA (collaboration)
1993 Artist in Residence, Centrum Foundation, Port Townsend, WA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2024 WATER/EARTH/SKY, ArtX Contemporary, Seattle, WA
2020 Strata: Works by Juan Alonso-Rodríguez, M. David & Co., Brooklyn, NY
2017 Seattle City Hall, Mayor's Offices, Seattle, WA
2013 Layered, Storefronts Seattle, Open Studio Project, Seattle, WA
2012 Upstairs Gallery, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010 Under Construction, Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, MN Pratt Fine Arts, Seattle, WA
2009 Aqua/Wynwood Art Fair, Miami, FL
2008 Notations, Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2007 Grey Matters, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 Exotica, Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2005 RC Gallery, Portland, OR Pratt Fine Arts, Seattle, WA
2004 Weathered, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
2003 Cancer Lifeline, Seattle, WA
2001 Closer, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
Juan Alonso: Give/Take, West Gallery, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
2000 Hyper-Terrestrial, Friesen Gallery, Ketchum, ID
1999 Seeds, Upstairs Gallery, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
1998 Passion, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
Signs of Spring, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
1997 Friesen Gallery, Ketchum, ID
1996 Resident Alien, Seattle Central Community College Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (King County Arts
Commission Special Project) Pierce College, Tacoma, WA
AIDS Housing of Washington, Bailey Boushay House, Seattle, WA
1995 (Betty and Loretta's) Garden Detour, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
Levi's Plaza, Levi Strauss Global Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
1994/95 TestaRossa, Seattle, WA
1994 Elemental, Upstairs Gallery, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
Julie Rico Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Bellevue Art Museum, Outside Wall, Bellevue, WA
1993 The Bon Marche, Seattle, WA
Juan Alonso, Work From His Centrum Residency, January 1993, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
1992 Nipple to the Bottle, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
1991 Rhythms, Momentum Gallery, Ventura Arts Council, Ventura, CA WilliamsLamb Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Recollections, Esvelt Gallery, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA
1990 Upstairs Gallery, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
Dancing at the Drop of a Hat, WilliamsLamb Gallery, Long Beach, CA
1989 Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Re Building: Works from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
Midtown Soul, ARTE NOIR Gallery, Seattle, WA
Celebrating Pacific Northwest Artists: 25 Years of the Neddy Awards, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle, WA
Celebrating The First 50 Years: Highlights from the Civic Collection, 1973-2023, King Street Station, Seattle, WA
2022 Enter/Return: Never-endings, The En, Seattle, WA
2021 Painting Deconstructed: Selections from the Northwest Collection, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Sheltered: Artists Respond to Covid-19, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA
2020 Color Fields (2 person show), SLATE contemporary, Oakland, CA
2018 Jorge Mendez Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
Re:Definition 2018 - Paramount Theatre’s 90th Anniversary Celebration of Community, Culture and Space
Paramount Theater, Seattle, WA
Juan Alonso-Rodríguez & Terrell Lozada, City of Kent's Centennial Center Gallery, Kent, WA
2017 Making Our Mark - Art by Pratt Teaching Artists, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) - Legacy Exhibit, Seattle, WA
Here's to Summer! Wendy Frieze Gallerist/Nash Frame, Minneapolis, MN
Many Lands, curated by Ben Gannon, Bridge Productions, Seattle, WA
Avenidas y Generaciones, curated by Blanca Santander, WA State Convention Center, Seattle, WA
2016 American Painting Today, V2, Presented by Hedreen Gallery, Seattle, WA
Placiness, 57 Biscayne, Good Arts Building, Seattle, WA
Seattle Simplified Part 2, recent art purchases for the city’s Portable Works Collection, Seattle Municipal
Tower Gallery
Summer Salon, Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2015 Winter Salon, Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2013 Visions & Environments, Washington State Convention Center
To Give in Return, Seattle City Hall, Seattle, WA
2011 Passages: Contemporary Latino/a Artists, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
Seattle as Collector, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Vortexibition Polyphonica, Stroum Gallery, Henry Art Gallery, U of WA, Seattle, WA
2010 Juan Alonso & Stephanie Hargrave, TASTE Restaurant, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Juan Alonso & Marita Dingus, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
The Art of Discovery: The Northwest Art Collection of the Junior League of Seattle,
Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
Honoring 15 Years of Neddy Fellows, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
A Continuing Cultural Legacy: Selections from the Safeco Collection Contribution to the Washington Art Consortium, Wright Exhibition Space, Seattle, WA
¡SENSE US! Ten Latino Artists of the Pacific Northwest, ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007 8th Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
A Decade of Excellence: Celebrating the Neddy Artist Fellowship, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2004 Seattle Perspective: Selections from the City of Seattle % for Art Portable Works Collection,
Washington State Convention & Trade Center, Seattle, WA
2003 New Paintings: Inaugural Exhibit, the new Seattle Art Museum Rental/Sales Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001 Northwest Views, Selections from the SAFECO Collection, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2000 Bumberbiennale: Painting 2000, Olympic Room, Northwest Court, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
1999 The Asian Aesthetic: Interpretations, Bradford Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bygone Modern - Paintings by Northwest Artists from the Last Quarter of the 20th Century, WA State Convention Center
Fresh Flowers, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1998 1998 Neddy Artist Fellowship Exhibit, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA
Class of 98, Galeria Dos Damas, San Diego, CA
Looking to Nature, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
1997 1997 Neddy Artist Fellowship Exhibit, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA
Working Papers, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996 The Neddy Inaugural Art Exhibit, Galleria of Art, Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, WA
1995/96 Celebration Especially for Children: The Art of Theater, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1995 The Survival of Joy: Contemporary Cuban Art, Seattle Central Community College, Seattle, WA
Folie a Deux, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Washington: 100 Years, 100 Paintings, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1994 Eyes on Public Art, 21st Year Retrospective Exhibition: Contention Corridor, Bumbershoot
Exhibition, Seattle Center-Northwest Rooms, Seattle, WA
Public Encounters, Selection from State of Oregon Percentage for Art Collection, Bush Barn Art
Center, Salem
COLLECTIONS:
Affiliated American, Corporate Headquarters, Bellevue, WA
AIDS Housing of Washington
AirTouch Cellular, Bellevue, WA
Beresford, Booth, Baronsky, & Trompeter, Seattle, WA
California Lawyers for the Arts, Santa Monica, CA
Care Unit Hospital, Kirkland, WA
Centrum Foundation, Port Townsend, WA
City of Everett, WA
City of Kent, WA
City of Renton, WA
City of Tacoma, WA
City of Seattle, WA
City of Yakima, WA
Danmoor Coorporation, San Antonio, TX
Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
General Mills, Minneapolis, MN
Harborview Medical Center, Cultural Heritage Collection, Seattle, WA
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Hilton Hotel, Seattle, WA
IMG Inc., Division of Masushian Corporation, Tokyo, JAPAN
Jumby Bay Villas, Long Island, Antigua, WEST INDIES
Junior League of Seattle, Seattle, WA
King County Housing Authority, Seattle, WA
Legacy Emanuel Children’s Hospital, Portland, OR
Long Island Resort Hotel, Long Island, Antigua, WEST INDIES
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
One Bean Productions, Hollywood, CA
Oregon State Arts Commission, New Portland State Office Building, Portland, OR
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Lumen Field (Seahawks Stadium), Seattle, WA
Seattle/Tacoma International Airport, Port of Seattle, WA
Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
University of Washington Biology Art Collection
University of Washington Libraries Artist Images Art Collection
Walker Richer & Quinn Inc, Seattle, WA
Washington State's Art in Public Places Program
PUBLIC WORKS:
Renton Technical College, Renton, WA, ArtsWA
Chief Sealth International High School, Seattle, WA, ArtsWA
King County Housing Authority, Seattle, WA
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Port of Seattle, WA
Portland State Office Building, Portland, OR
Seattle Light Rail, Sound Transit, WA
Lumen Field and Exhibition Center, Seattle
Epiphany School, Seattle, WA