Celia Álvarez Muñoz is a conceptual and multimedia artist working for the past five decades across media, from painting and photography to installation and sculpture, to illuminate our collective experience of the American borderlands. Her work uses the everyday stuff of life, including her own personal history growing up Catholic on the Texas-Mexico border and her work as an educator, in the pursuit of a universal storytelling. Muñoz’s practice yields new worlds from the interstices between languages, cultures, and communities, and is a wholly democratic pursuit of didactic engagement. Upending the impersonal qualities of visual tropes such as the comic strip, educational flashcard and storybook page, she imbues her often overlooked contributions to the whitewashed Pictures Generation with a wry pathos.

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Throughout her career, Álvarez Muñoz has experienced widespread institutional support, from her inclusion in the 1991 Whitney Biennial to her participation in the 2016 Radical Women exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles to her recent traveling retrospective beginning at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Her solo exhibition El Limite is on view at the Amon Carter Museum of Art, Fort Worth, TX. through October 18, 2026.

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Recent solo exhibitions include Apothecary Rx at Tureen (2025) Los Brilliantes at Ruby City, San Antonio (2025), Breaking the Binding at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA (2023-2024). Her work is also held in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among others.

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In 2023 Radius Books published a monograph of her retrospective titled Breaking the Binding with Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.

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