JONATHAN H ALFAROb. 1992, Windsor, Ontario
Lives and works in Vancouver, BC
Work202620252024202320222021202020192018Select Projects2026
SIRENSIREN, People, Vancouver, BC - curatorial project
- forthcoming2025
Vulnerable Pleasures, Corpo Freudiano Vancouver School of Psychoanalysis with Gallery Gachet, Vancouver, BC2024
Dear Friends &, Resident Artist, The Capilano Review and The Western Front, Vancouver, BC2023
Curator’s Sauna, Canton-Sardine, Vancouver, BC2023
High-Fructose Sun, Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver, BC2023
Transmissions, Art Gallery at Evergreen, Coquitlam, BC CVSelect Exhibitions2027
Candy-Sized, Free Economy, Vancouver, BC - forthcoming2026
Tender Threads, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC - forthcoming2026
SIRENSIREN, People, Vancouver, BC - curatorial project - forthcoming2025
Vulnerable Pleasures, Corpo Freudiano Vancouver Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis with Gallery Gachet, Vancouver, BC
2025
Fibre: CAROLINE ACHAINTRE, JONATHAN ALFARO, GHISLAIN BROWN-KOSSI, Wil Abale, Vancouver, BC2023
High-Fructose Sun, Burrard Arts Foundation – solo Vancouver, BC
2023
Thank You James H, Burrard Arts Foundation Garage – solo Vancouver, BC2023
Curator's Sauna, Canton-Sardine, Vancouver BC
2023
Transmissions, Art Gallery at Evergreen, Coquitlam, BC
2018
Intertwined, Michael O’Brian Exhibition Commons, Vancouver, BCGrants, Awards + Residencies2024
Dear Friends &, Resident Artist, The Capilano Review and The Western Front, Vancouver, BC2023
Burrard Arts Foundation Artist Residency, Vancouver, BC2023
Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization Grant2022
New Media Gallery Micro Residency Program, New Westminster, BC2022
Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation Grant2021
Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Crearion Grant2019
Audain Art Museum RBC Emerging Artist Program, Whistler, BCPublications + Published Writing2024
The Capilano Review Spring Issue2021
Kaur, Russna. Interviewed by Jonathan Alfaro. “A Conversation with: Russna Kaur.” 33 Acres Brewing Company, 22 April 2021 www.33acresbrewing.com/a-conversation-with-russna-kaur/2017
Alfaro, Jonathan. Keepsakes for the Displaced. Freq Magazine2017
Alfaro, Jonathan and Magalena Gorski. Catalytic Communities: People of the Hills. Freq Magazine, Vol 2, Issue 11.Artist Talks2026
Weaving Synposium, Surrey Art Gallery - forthcoming2025
Contemporary Arts Society of Vancouver, Studio Tour2024
Centre A, Writing Mentorship Program Studio Tour2024
Langara Artist Speaker Series2023
Langara Artist Speaker Series2023
Contemporary Arts Society of VancouverEducation2022
NSCAD University – Anna Leonowens Gallery Certificate in Gallery + Studio Management, Halifax, NS2020
BFA Visual Arts + Minor in Curatorial Studies – Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BCRelated Work2025
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Preparator, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC2023
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Archives + Library Catalogue Management, Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Vancouver, BC2023
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Preparator, Art Gallery at Evergreen, Coquitlam BC
2023
-2026
Studio Manager, Brent Wadden Studio, Vancouver, BC2023
Programming Jury, Modern Fuel, Kingston, ON2023
Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Peer Jury2022
Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Peer Jury
2022
-2025
Museum Library Catalogue Management, Rennie Museum, Vancouver, BC2022
Invigilator for exhibition 51@51, Rennie Museum, Vancouver, BC2022
Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Peer Jury2020
Project Management, The Museum of Other Realities, Vancouver, BC2010
Studio assistant to Nancy Patterson, Toronto, ON Jonathan Alfaro is a queer, LatinX interdisciplinary artist working on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy ̓əm, Sḵwx ̱wú7mesh, and səl ̓ílwətaʔɬ nations. Alfaro holds a BFA from Emily Carr University. Recent exhibitions have been held at Art Gallery Evergreen, Canton-Sardine, and the Burrard Arts Foundation (all 2023). Alfaro was selected for the Audain Art Museum’s RBC Emerging Artist Program (2019), and has participated in residencies at the New Media Gallery (2022), the Burrard Arts Foundation (2023), and the resident artist for the Dear Friends, reading series hosted by The Capilano Review and The Western Front (2024).
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