Artist in Residence, Stockholm, 3 November 2025–27 April 2026

Anton Alvarez is an artist living and working in Stockholm.

His work oscillates between expression and control, combining technological innovation while utilizing traditional craftsmanship. In his practice, he puts a  major focus on designing systems; creating the tools and processes for production his sculptural objects and architecture. They highlight the way in which an artist can become both craftsman and engineer, and the tension between these two roles. His sculptural forms challenge our perception of weight and gravity as they appear to be both of this world and utterly separate from it.

During his IASPIS residency Anton will continue his practices on developing new tools and methods for materializing new ideas and sculptures.

Anton Alvarez (b.1980) graduated from the Royal College of Art, London, UK in 2012.
Recent exhibitions include Sweet Tooth (duo show with Oli Epp), Semiose, Paris (2025); Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat, Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki (2025); Columns and Fences (duo show with Mathias Weinfurter), Ruttkowski 68, Collagen (2023); Recent solo exhibitions include The Flavour is So Strong, Larsen Warner, Stockholm, Sweden (2019); L’Ultima Cera, Church San Bernardino alle Monache, Milan, Italy (2019); Visual Vertigo, Espace Muraille, Geneva, Switzerland (2018); To Plan the Unexpected, Christian Larsen, Stockholm, Sweden (2017); Alphabet Aerobics, National Centre for Craft and Design, UK (2016); How Long is a Piece of Thread, Xue Xue Institute, Taiwan (2016); Wrapsody, Salon 94, NY (2015). In September 2019 Alvarez was included included in the 10th Korean ceramic Biennale. Selected group shows include Ceramic Momentum: Staging the Object, Clay Keramikmuseum, Middelfart, Denmark (2019); The Most Real Thing: Contemporary Textiles and Sculpture, New Art centre, Roche Court, UK (2018); Color Your Life at Daelim Museum, Seoul, Korea and Wild Things at the Texture Museum, Belgium. Alvarez’s work is included in the public collections of the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden; Denver Art Museum, Colorado, USA and the Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden as well as many prominent private collections.