Annie Alvarez

Through a sequential visual language, each work recounts personal moments and their reverberations, forming a vortex of emotion that ultimately shaped her as an artist and as a person.

Born June 17, 1995, Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas

Annie’s work is not merely a source of visual pleasure—it is testimony. Within each piece reside intimate battles, violence, and the possibility of redemption. Her paintings stand as evidence: matter that gives weight and soul to what many once dismissed as a superfluous story. Through a sequential visual language, each work recounts personal moments and their reverberations, forming a vortex of emotion that ultimately shaped her as an artist and as a person.

A decade ago, upon relocating to Guadalajara, her story was marked by a reprehensible act: sexual abuse. Where joy, excitement, and hope had existed, there remained anger, fear, and disgust. She sought two simple words—“I believe you”—and they were denied. Instead, the crowd answered with a single accusation. Facing what felt like a definitive end, her path shifted when someone finally said, “I do believe you.” It was from that moment that healing began.

Following the death of the dealer who first supported her, Annie embraced a new conviction: never again to live under anyone’s shadow. She learned to forgive—not out of guilt, but out of understanding—and to stop allowing harm to define her horizon. No one holds power over her now: neither the coward who inflicted the violence nor the society that echoed it. Today, not yet fully whole but committed to seeking wholeness, her work resounds in the gallery with women who confront the viewer, command the space, and transform echoes of the past into visions of what is yet to come.