JUAN ALONSO-RODRIGUEZ

Cuban-born Juan Alonso-Rodríguez is a self-taught artist with a career spanning over three decades in Seattle. His work has been exhibited throughout the US, Canada and Latin America and is included in the permanent collections of the Tacoma Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, Museum of Northwest Art, Microsoft, Swedish & Harborview Hospitals and General Mills among many others. He has created public works for Century Link Field, Seattle/Tacoma International Airport, King County Housing Authority, Epiphany School, Sound Transit’s Light Rail system, Chief Sealth High School and Renton Technical College. His awards include a 2010 Seattle Mayor’s Arts Award, The Neddy Fellowship, PONCHO Artist of the Year, two Artist Trust GAPs, three 4 Culture Individual Artist Grants, ArtSpace’s 2016 DeJunius Hughes Award for Activism, the 2017 Conductive Garboil Grant and a 2019 Artist Trust Fellowship. Juan is a Seattle Arts Commissioner and serves on the city’s Public Art Advisory Committee.