Jhina alvarado biography
Jhina alvarado biography
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Jhina Alvarado
BIOGRAPHY
Jhina (pronounced He-nah) Alvarado is a self-taught, figurative artist who started painting in her late twenties. Having been afraid to paint a portrait or a human figure, she painted mostly abstracted art with elements of realism within each work.
In 2009, feeling frustrated artistically, she decided to challenge herself and painted her first portrait and now exclusively paints figuratively. As a woman of color, who is half Mexican and half Korean, she struggled with finding art that represented women who looked like her.
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To fix this, her recent work focuses on people, mostly women, of color who she sees in her community.
Jhina has had multiple gallery representation across the US and has been featured in many print and online magazines, blogs and art books.
Her work is in prominent private and corporate collections and has been commissioned by the royal family of Monaco. She currently teaches AP Calculus at the Ruth Asawa San Francis