Juan Alonso-Rodríguez is a Cuban-born, self-taught artist whose transition from music to visual arts coincided with his move to Seattle in 1982. Working in a variety of visual mediums - from acrylic on unprimed canvas, to modeling paste on panel, to cut steel - Alonso-Rodríguez’s work is an ongoing exploration of abstraction inspired by landscapes, botanical forms, architecture, and his Caribbean upbringing.Alonso-Rodríguez has been a vital fixture in the PNW art community for over 40 years. Currently residing Florida, his work has been exhibited throughout the US, Canada and Latin America and is included in the permanent collections of the Tacoma Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, Museum of Northwest Art, Microsoft, Swedish & Harborview Hospitals, General Mills. He has created public works for Century Link Field, Seattle/Tacoma International Airport, King County Housing Authority, Epiphany School, Sound Transit’s Light Rail system, Chief Sealth High School and Renton Technical College, both commissioned by Washington State Arts Commission. Alonso-Rodríguez’s awards include a 2010 Seattle Mayor’s Arts Award, The Neddy Fellowship, PONCHO Artist of the Year, two Artist Trust GAPs, three 4Culture Individual Artist Grants, ArtSpace’s 2016 Dejunius Hughes Award for Activism, the 2017 Conductive Garboil Grant, a 2019 Artist Trust Fellowship and a 2019 Washington State Governor’s Arts Award: Individual. Alonso-Rodríguez is a former Seattle Arts Commissioner and served four years on the Public Art Advisory Committee for the City of Seattle.