Panch Alvarez is a visual artist and the founder of Studio Maya, an art space for emerging artists in the Philippines.
Alvarez’s work focuses on two concerns: pushing for further humanitarian discourse on social and climate justice and tackling the complexities of identity muddled by centuries of colonial influence.
Accorded the Loyola Schools Award for the Arts in 2009, Alvarez was selected as a resident artist at the Sandali Art Residency (2025) and the Linangan Art Residency (2023) in the Philippines. In 2023, he was named a fellow of the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency in Italy.
Alvarez has done multiple solo and group exhibits both in the Philippines and abroad, including a recent one at the People’s Museum of Climate Justice in The Hague, the Netherlands. In 2021, one of his works was featured at an event during Art Basel in Miami, Florida.
Alvarez is the author of two books: Seasonal Adversities, an ekphrastic art collaboration with poet Joel M. Toledo; and An Apartment in Naga, a book of illustrated fiction, which has been translated into Czech and published in Czechia in 2024.
He currently hosts the Studio Maya Art Podcast, a channel dedicated to discussing conceptual art forms and art practices in the Philippines.
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