Chan Alvarez is a Madrid-based visual artist, art critic, and independent curator.
In his visual work, he explores how identity, self-consciousness, and perception are shaped—and reshaped—across time and context through the lens of philosophy. Working across diverse mediums, his projects focus on the philosophical discourse between theoretical constructs and the phenomenological experience. His works have been presented in exhibitions internationally, creating spaces that invite his viewers to engage with the shifting boundaries of personhood.
Beyond the studio, he works with independent galleries, artist-run spaces, and institutional settings to craft exhibitions and curatorial essays that foreground context, theory, and the lived experience of making.
He studied at the University of the Philippines Diliman and at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where his intellectual formation developed through engagements with critical theory, philosophy, and interdisciplinary inquiry. This academic grounding continues to inform the conceptual and methodological frameworks of his work.