Alva Mooses is an artist and educator based in New York City. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union and her MFA from Yale University. She has exhibited her work in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe, and has completed fellowships and residencies at Socrates Sculpture Park, The University of Chicago, Tou Trykk in Stavanger, Norway, and Casa Wabi, in Oaxaca, Mexico, among others. Since 2004, she has organized community art initiatives and collaborations in NYC, Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, El Salvador, and Argentina. In 2017, Alva co-founded LAZO, a collective that creates participatory art projects and exhibitions bringing together Latinx artists, curators, scholars, and activists. She is part of the Editorial Advisory Board for the media platform Latinx Spaces, Special Projects Consultant at The Clemente Center, and teaches Sculpture and Drawing at The Cooper Union School of Art.

My art practice weaves together my personal experiences as a Mexican-American with my research surrounding socio-political histories and colonized landscapes. My process is informed by the histories of print, paper, and book arts. I am often working with geological materials such as volcanic stones, rammed earth, clay, and cast concrete that make reference to lost or potential typographies and topographies, conveying strata of bodies in transformation. Through my work, I reflect on notions of belonging and mestizaje in American society.