Anton Alvarez

Anton Alvarez’s sculptures challenge our perception of weight and gravity and appear both of this world and utterly separate from it. His practice is material-based and focused on the design of systems, tools and processes for producing objects and architecture. The technology created by the artist to aid in the creation of his works is inextricable from his process, highlighting the way in which an artist can be both craftsman and engineer, and the tension between these two roles. The oscillation between expression and constraint and advancing technological innovation while also utilising traditional craftsmanship tests our views of craft, material and the artistic process. 

Anton Alvarez (b. 1980, Uppsala, Sweden) graduated from the Royal College of Art, London, UK in 2012 and Konstfack in Stockholm, Sweden in 2009. 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 around the world. Alvarez has created several public sculptures in Sweden and has collaborated with Gucci, Fendi, Acne, and Issey Miyake. 

His notable solo and duo exhibitions include The Colour of Gravity, Helsinki Contemporary (2026), Sweet Tooth (with Oli Epp), Semiose, Paris (2025), Honey, Millesgården, Stockholm (2022); Tight Squeeze, Huxley-Parlour, London, UK (2021); Roman Toothpaste, Vandalorum, Värnamo, Sweden (2021), 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); and Alphabet Aerobics, National Centre for Craft and Design, Sleaford, UK (2016).

His selected group shows include 47th Tendencies: Kneaded. Shaped. Fired., Galleri F15, Moss, Norway (2026), Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat, Helsinki Contemporary (2024), Any Colour You Like, Carl Kostyal, Milan, Italy (2023) the 10th Korean Ceramic Biennale (2019), 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, Daelim Museum, Seoul, Korea (2016), and Wild Things, Texture Museum, Belgium (2016).