Narda Alvarado
Narda (La Paz, 1975) began her artistic career as an autodidact in 1997 while studying Architecture in La Paz, where she earned her bachelor's degree in 2011. In 2012, she completed a Master of Science in Art, Culture, and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States. At MIT, she took several Comparative Media Studies courses and worked as a co-instructor and research assistant on Education & Video Game projects at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab. Between 2008 and 2010, she created and led a team of theorists to carry out a multidisciplinary research project. The result was the publication of the book Video Art in Bolivia: Theoretical Approaches and Videography. In 2008, she gave practical and theoretical workshops on vernacular YouTube video at American universities. In 2004, she received an Artistic Research Residency grant from the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, the Netherlands, equivalent to a Master's degree in Visual Arts. She participated in the Venice Biennales, the Fin del Mundo (Ushuaia), the Sao Paulo Biennales, the Busan Biennales, and the Mercosur Biennales, among others. She has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Bolivia, Latin America, and Europe. She has completed residencies and artist expeditions in Belgrade and Athens, PotosÃ, Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Jerusalem, and Oxford. She is currently a Philosophy student at the UMSA (University of Santiago de Chile) and lives and works in La Paz.
