Artist Statement

Jaime Alvarez is a photographer and artist born and raised in Puerto Rico.

His work ranges in content but at its core it deals with how people relate to place and objects through environmental and sustainability concerns.  

In 2019, Jaime began self publishing small books titled “Fishtown Daily”, which follows the everyday views of the neighborhood that is rapidly going through rapid developments.

Other projects Jaime has worked on include “Consumption” which is composed of large scale images and an installation portion that includes objects that have been discarded from homes that have been demolished in the Philadelphia area. These images and objects reflect peoples materialism, and sense of nostalgia.

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Artist Biography

Jaime lives in Fishtown, Philadelphia, PA, in a converted pickle factory with his wife, son, and dogs. Learn more about him and the variety of works at www.jaimephoto.com.

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Education

2003-2005
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
MFA, Photography

1997-2001

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
BFA, Photography

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Awards & Honors

2004
Fellowship recipient, The Photography Institute, New York, NY

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Bibliography

Print Media

2007
“Close to Home,” The Bruise Magazine

2006
“Time,” File Magazine, June 2006

2005
Issue #11, Mooncruise.com, January 2005

“Made Here,” Cranbrook Academy of Art Grad Book, May 2005

2003
Visionaire Publication, World, Issue #41, November 2003

2002
Issue #13, Eleven Bulls online zine, July 2002

Exhibitions

Solo

2020

Foreign, Glen Foerd on the Delaware, Philadelphia, PA

Bridesburg, in collaboration with Delaware River Front Property, Philadelphia, PA

El Yunque, Windows on Latimer, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA

2018

Consumption, Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia, PA

2015

Farthest From Earth, Penn State Abington Campus, Abington, PA

2012

Memento, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2011

Instruments of Cope, meltemBirey Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2003
One/12, Latin American Cultural Space, Washington, DC

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Two-person

2007
Taking the Measure: works by Jaime Alvarez and Ryan Widger, Yo Darkroom, Philadelphia, PA

2001
Challenging Displacement: works by Jaime Alvarez and Vale Bruck, Red Eye Gallery, Providence, RI

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Group

2022

Fishtown Daily, Commonwealth Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2021

#ICPConcerned, International Center Of Photography, Philadelphia, PA

2019

Catalyst, The Yard, Philadelphia, PA

2017

As By Digging, Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA

2016

MtoN, Kitchen Table Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2015

Young Latino Artists 20: Within Reach, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX

A Bridge to the Latin American Art Spirit, Art at the Center, Comcast Center, Philadelphia, PA

Other Selections: Local Artists Respond to the Museum Collection, Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA

Filadelfia: New Perspectives, Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia, PA

Crystal Beings, Esther Klein Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2014

Listening In, Philly Artists Speak, Curated by Grizzly Grizzly, Abington Art Center, Abington, PA

Way Down Low, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA

To Tiger With Love..., Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA

Force Field Project, Maken Studios, Philadelphia, PA

2013

Chorus Effect, Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

In Front of Strangers I Sing, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2008
Killing Time, Art Institute of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

2007
POST Preview, Freemans Auction House, Philadelphia, PA

2006
From the Studio III: Original artwork by POST artist, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA
Juror: Lia Gangitano

2005
Tales From a Dark Alley: Obscure Works of Art, 3rd Rail Studio,
Cranbrook Academy of Art, New Rochelle, NY

Degree Show, Cranbrook Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2004
Exchange show, Community Arts Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Cul-de-sac, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Post Summer Show, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Photography Institute Fellowship group show, Leroy Nieman Gallery, New York, NY

Slow Artist Event’s, Slow Gallery, Detroit, MI

Cranbrook Video Fest ’04, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Focus Group, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2003
Up and Coming: Small Works by Emerging Artists, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY

Eleven Bulls: NYCinDC, Decatur Blue Gallery, Washington, DC

Eleven Bulls: 15 Artists, Project Green Space, Brooklyn, NY

2001
Photography Senior Show, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI

1999
Iche’s Gallery, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico