Alfredo Quiroz

Alfredo Quiroz is a Paraguayan visual artist, born in Asunción in 1974. Largely self-taught, his first approach to visual arts came through painting in 2009. He began his artistic career with painting and later expanded into graphic work, audiovisual media, and installations, sometimes working from an intermedial perspective. Quiroz holds a degree in Medicine (Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, 2000) and a specialization in Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation (Hospital Central "Dr. Emilio Cubas" of the Instituto de Previsión Social, 2005), an aspect of his professional life that plays a significant role in his visual work.

He held his first solo exhibition at the Centro de Artes Visuales/Museo del Barro under the title Ser tu cuerpo in 2009. Since then, he has steadily developed a series of exhibition projects, shown mainly at Galería Fábrica/Club de Arte, which has arguably served as a laboratory for experimentation under the guidance of artist, curator, and gallerist Osvaldo Salerno, with whom Quiroz maintained a close relationship of friendship and collaboration.

Despite being self-taught, his proximity to mentors such as Carlos Colombino, Ricardo Migliorisi, and Ticio Escobar provided valuable critical feedback that propelled his work both formally and conceptually. Although he did not receive formal technical training, his consistent participation in theoretical courses and seminars on visual arts enriched and deepened his artistic explorations.

Over the past decade, he has held nearly twenty solo exhibitions in Paraguay, France, and Germany, and has taken part in group exhibitions both nationally and internationally in countries such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, the United States, Finland, Italy, and Venezuela.

He was awarded the Colores para los Derechos Humanos Prize by the United Nations (Asunción, 2010) and was selected for the National Fine Arts Prize (Asunción, 2010). In 2014, he received the Henri Matisse Prize, granted by the Embassy of France in Paraguay, after previously earning an honorable mention (2012) and second prize (2013). He also received an honorable mention at the Livio Abramo Prize (Asunción, 2014), and won the Invernadero, Arte-Política-Experimento Prize (Asunción, 2015) and the Hippolyte Bayard Photography Prize (Asunción, 2018).

Thanks to these recognitions, Quiroz undertook artist residencies at La Escocesa (Barcelona, 2016) and at the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, 2017, 2019–2020). His work is part of the public collection of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Asunción, Paraguay), as well as private institutional collections such as the Centro de Artes Visuales/Museo del Barro (Paraguay), Fundación Ricardo Migliorisi (Paraguay), and the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA, United States). His work is also represented in private collections including the Mendonca Collection, the Justo Pastor Benítez Colnago Collection, the Félix Toranzos Collection, the Hrisuk Collection – History, Art and Culture of Paraguay, and the Marc Schwartzman Collection (Argentina).