Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes
Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes is an art critic and exhibition curator. He was chief curator of the Sala Montcada of the Fundación "La Caixa" (1997-98), and, from 2002 to 2004, directed the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Párraga (Murcia, Spain). Some of his most outstanding exhibitions are: La casa, su idea (Comunidad de Madrid, 1996), El yo diverso (Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona, 1997), Ciudades sin nombre (Comunidad de Madrid, 1998), Escenarios (Injuve, Madrid, 2000), Mas vivas muertas que nunca (MEIAC, Badajoz, 2002), Monocanal (Museo Reina Sofía, CGAC, Centre d'Art Santa Mónica, Koldo Mitxelena, Museo Patio Herreriano, CajAstur, Casa Díaz Cassou and Centro José Guerrero, 2003), Esfuerzo (Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, 2004), Sesiones Animadas (CAAM, Las Palmas, and Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2005), Actions Tour (Nit Niu, Majorca, 2005), Historias animadas (Caixaforum, Barcelona, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao and Le Fresnoy, Lille, 2006), En un mundo mágico (Nit Niu, Majorca, 2006), Fantasmagoría (Fundación ICO, Madrid, 2007), Madrid Abierto 07 (Interventions in the public space, Madrid, 2007), and Los Límites del Crecimiento (Sala Alcalá 31, Comunidad de Madrid, 2007). He is currently preparing Try again, for La Casa Encendida, Madrid and Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastián.
As an art critic, he writes regularly for the ABCD (the ABC newspaper's cultural magazine) and the review Artecontexto. From 1995 to 1997 he worked for Diario 16 and from 1997-2002 directed El Periódico del Arte, while serving as a correspondent for The Art Newspaper, Le Journal des Arts and Il Giornalle dell'Arte, and collaborating with numerous national and international specialist publications.
