Luis Alvaro Sahagún Nuño

Luis Alvaro Sahagún Nuño (born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico) lives in Asheville, North Carolina. He is an artist and ritualist whose practice confronts the palpable inescapability of race and transforms art into an act of cultural and spiritual reclamation. He has exhibited widely at venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Charlie James Gallery (Los Angeles), Latchkey Gallery (New York), and the National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago). He has held residencies at Roswell, New Mexico and the Chicago Artist Coalition. He was a Critical Race Studies Scholar at Michigan State University. His work has been examined in publications including Artillery Magazine, Artforum, the Los Angeles Times, Newcity, and the Chicago Tribune. His work is included in the Fidelity Investments Collection (Boston), Alta Med Collection (Los Angeles), and the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection (South Florida), among others. His practice has been spotlighted as having a unique voice helping to shape, shift, and touch the world on radio, podcasts, and television networks such as MundoFOX, NBC, Univision, and WBEZ-NPR. Sahagún Nuño is a 3Arts awardee and a 2023 United States Artist Fellow. He received his undergraduate degree from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and an MFA at Northern Illinois University.