Visiting photography faculty wins JGS Fellowship for Photography

Nando Alvarez-Perez

Nando Alvarez-Perez, visiting assistant professor of photography in Alfred University's School of Art and Design, is one of five New York State-based photography artists to receive a 2024 JGS Fellowship for Photography.

The 2024 JGS Fellowship for Photography awards winners an unrestricted $8,000 cash grant, which is administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). The Fellowships are open to New York State photography artists living and working anywhere in the following regions of the state: Western New York, Finger Lakes, Southern Tier, Central New York, North Country, Mohawk Valley, Capital District, Hudson Valley, and Long Island.

Each year, fellowships are awarded to five artists working in traditional and experimental photography or any form in which photographic techniques are pivotal. Support for this funding is provided by Joy of Giving Something (JGS), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the photographic arts.

Alvarez-Perez has exhibited at NADA New York 2024; Lydian Stater Gallery, New York, NY; Buffalo Central Terminal, Buffalo, NY; Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA; Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA; Untitled Art Fair, San Francisco, CA; and Material Art Fair, CDMX, among many others. His practice extends to his work as a founding director of The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, an art and education nonprofit that models how culture can sustain communities through focused, practical engagements with contemporary art, and as editor-in-chief of Cornelia, a visual art review published three times a year for the Western New York and Southern Ontario region.

Alvarez-Perez lives and works in Buffalo, NY. He received a bachelor's degree in film studies from CUNY Hunter in 2011 and an MFA from The San Francisco Art Institute in 2014, where he was awarded the Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Photography.