About

Alvaro Sánchez is a Graphic artist and a casual photographer based in Guatemala city, red wine drinker, and macchiato coffee lover too, compulsive buyer of books and cd’s, cinema and music junkie. Actually working in advertising because something has to pay the bills…

•IV ICARO FILM FESTIVAL nominated with the short film
MONOTONY 2000
• VI ICARO FILM FESTIVAL winner with best animation
shortfilm DOLLS 2002
• VIDARTE MEXICAN FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL nominee
DOLLS 2003
•MADC (Museum of art and design of Costa Rica) Screening of DOLLS at the central american contemporanean video screen 2003
• Colloquia art center Screening of DOLLS and MONIMO 2003
• Screening at the CORPO E TECNOLOGIA festival at the auditorium Scipiao Senac of comunications and arts Sao Paulo DOLLS 2003
• Cultural Center EVOLUCAO official selection with DOLLS and MONIMO Campinas Sao Paulo 2003
• Official selection at the casa do lago Unicamp Campinas Brazil Exposition of short films DOLLS,MONIMO, 2003
• Screening at the Mostra do cine amador Cine Teatro
Fernando Leite Mendez Bahia Brazil MONIMO2003
• Videomix Festival at the Museum Abilio Barreto Belo Horizonte Official selection Brazil MONIMO 2003
• Screening at the MOCA of Los Angeles U.S.A. in the event
L.A. FREEWAVES of contemporanean video of central america
DOLLS 2002
• Expo at the URBALLOON SHOW New York 2003
• Screening at the Paso Imperial Rio de Janiero and Sao Paulo brasil teather Humberto M. DOLLS, MONOTONY,MONIMO, A HISTORY FROM THE STREET 2004
• VI International digitial art from Central America at the Cultural Center Pablo de la Torre/Centro Cultural cinematográfico ICAIC La habana Cuba DOLLS 2004
• Participation at the Cannes Festival 2004
(advertising t.v. comercials)
• 2 times nominated by the IBEROMAERICAN EYE ADVERTISING FESTIVAL to best director for Central American region
2005/2006 Argentina
• Selected to participate at the VIA SATELITE FESTIVAL/Bananas is my Businees/Inquieta Imagen / Centroamerica: of video by the MADC (Museum of art and design of Costa Rica) in Peru 2006
•Part of the permanent collection of contemporanean Latin American video of MADC
(Museum of art and design of Costa Rica)
• Art and design expo at the HANNABI DESGIN 2006
Malasya Singapur
• Published at DESKTOP MAGAZINE Australia 2003
• Published at BELIO MAGAZINE Australia 2005
• Clothing design for fashion store zelle29 in cologne
germany (www.zelle29.com) 2006
• Published at the art magazine PANIC BUTTON Ukraine 2006
• Expo at the JAPANESE FEVER launch book of
TERRITORY MAGAZINE at the IZU GALLERY In Kuala Lumpur 2006
• Expo from Panic Button magazine at
GALERIE NUIT D’ENCRE Paris 2006
• Expo and published at the METAMORFOSI Catalog of
GRA Genuine Roman Art -Roma Italy 2007
• Published at THE COMPEDIUM BOOK Switzerland 2007
• Solo expo at the Casa del Mango Guatemala2008
•Exposition at the TAPEMATTER DESIGN organized by
Plátano Rock Tenerife Spain 2008
• Published at the CELEBRITY BOOK by
Index Books Barcelona/Brasil 2008
• Publish art works for art magazines from Guatemala,U.S.A.,Germany,Sweden, Australia,Polonia, Slovakia,Greece,Scotland,Spain,Italy. from 2002 to date
• Awarded in several local and international
advertising festivals of design and film