Cuban-born Juan Alonso-Rodríguez is a self-taught artist with a career spanning over three decades in Seattle.

His work has been exhibited throughout the US, Canada and Latin America and is included in the permanent collections of the Tacoma Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, Museum of Northwest Art, Microsoft, Swedish & Harborview Hospitals, General Mills among others.

He has created public works for Century Link Field, Seattle/Tacoma International Airport, King County Housing Authority, Epiphany School, Sound Transit’s Light Rail system, Chief Sealth High School and Renton Technical College. His awards include a 2010 Seattle Mayor’s Arts Award, The Neddy Fellowship, PONCHO Artist of the Year, two Artist Trust GAPs, two 4Culture Individual Artist Grants, ArtSpace’s 2016 DeJunius Hughes Award for Activism and the 2017 Conductive Garboil Grant. Juan is a Seattle Arts Commissioner and serves on the city’s Public Art Advisory Committee.

His book, 8 Days in Havana, can be seen here.

Indigo Flow 2, 2017, acrylic on unprimed canvas, 48" x 48"

Hoody, 2017, stainless steel, 138" H x 63" x 79", commissioned by WA State Arts Commission for Renton Technical College