Juan Alonso-Rodríguez is a Cuban-born, multi-award-winning self-taught artist currently residing in St Petersburg, Florida. Previously based in Seattle, he has been an active member of the Pacific Northwest arts community for several decades. His work has been exhibited throughout the US and is included in the permanent collections of the Tacoma Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum, the University of Washington’s Henry Art Gallery, and the Museum of Northwest Art, as well as the collections of Microsoft and General Mills, among others. He has created public works for Seattle/Tacoma International Airportand Seattle’s Sound Transit System, among others. Besides a 2019 Artist Trust Fellowship, his awards include two Artist Trust GAP’s, the 1997 Neddy Fellowship, a 2010 Seattle Mayor’s Arts Award, the 2016 DeJunius Hughes Award for Activism, the 2017 Conductive Garboil Grant, the 2019 Governor’s Arts Award for an Individual Artist. He has been nominated twice for the Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptor’s Grant.