Juan Alvarez

Juan Alvarez, aka Wamoo, is a Dominican-born, Washington Heights-raised music and media-based artist, working at the border between visual art, music and live performance. Taking shape as both video and self-produced music, Wamoo’s practice draws from his personal experience immigrating to the United States as a child, and the tools, like video games and music, which allowed him to both adapt to his new context as well as cope with it overtime. Reinventing these memories as material through his experience, he constructs experimental music videos self produced and found footage with aesthetics, characters, and cosplay to both regenerate and mold video game characters, early digital aesthetics and music into a multi-dimensional experience.

Juan Alvarez, aka Wamoo, is a Dominican-born, Washington Heights-raised and based musician and media-based artist, working at the border between visual art, music and live performance. His audiovisual work is constructed by means of collage art, reconstructing existing materials and bringing them into new contexts. He is mainly inspired by the video art of Joan Jonas and Pipilotti Rist, as well as music producers J Dilla and Tainy.

He has exhibited at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, SuperBlue Miami, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Andrew Freedman Home, among others. He has also been featured on publications like "Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora", an arts publication published by Illinois State University; and "Apricity", published by the University of Texas at Austin. He studied at the University at Albany, SUNY, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in two concentrations, Philosophy and World History.