Andrius Alvarez-Backus is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, drawing, and painting. Through the transformation of everyday objects, he amplifies their poetic connotations to evoke personal allegories of intimacy, embodiment, and memory. His mixed media assemblages interrogate how desire bridges beauty and abjection, and how the semiotics of materials convey cultural meanings within the queer Filipinx experience.

He received his BFA from The Cooper Union (2023), and his MFA from Columbia University (2025). His work has been shown internationally at the Wallach Art Gallery, Fragment Gallery, SK Gallery, Plato Gallery, Chelsea Walls, Black Brick Project, the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, among others. He mounted his first museum solo exhibition, “Desastre!,” at the Fitchburg Art Museum in 2023, where his work is also included in the permanent collection. Recent honors include the Richard Lewis Bloch Memorial Prize, the Martin A. Rothenberg Travel Fellowship, the D’Arcy Hayman Scholarship, and the Quinta Carolina Scholarship. In 2025, he was the inaugural Nicholas Dahl Visiting Artist at the Provincetown Art Association & Museum.

Alvarez-Backus currently serves as the Communications Manager at Queer|Art, the NYC nonprofit empowering LGBTQ+ artists across generations and disciplines.