| 2024 |
Shawn Ghassemitari, ‘HypeArt visits: Alvaro Barrington’, Hypebeast, 02 July 2024 Alex Bacon, ‘Alvaro Barrington with Alex Bacon’, The Brooklyn Rail, July 2024 Fiona Mckenzie Johnston, ‘Artists in Their Studio, Alvaro Barrington’, House & Garden, July 2024 Dominique Heyse-Moore, ‘Pang Pang’, Tate Etc, Summer 2024, pp. 52-59 Victoria L. Valentine, ‘Latest news in Black Art; Alvaro Barrington Unveils Tate Commission, New LGBTQ+ Biennial in Detroit, Oliver Lee Jackson Joined Lisson Gallery, Art School Closure & More’, Culture Type, 03 June 2024 Skye Sherwin, ‘Carnival dancers, stained glass and a haunted corner shop: a tour around Alvaro Barrington’s installation Grace’, The Guardian, 03 June 2024 Alayo Akinkugbe, ‘The Moving Story Behind Alvaro Barrington’s Monumental Tate Installation’, AnOther Magazine, 03 June 2024 Hannah Marsh, ‘Alvaro Barrington’, Tate Etc, Issue 61, Spring 2024, pp. 14 –15 Barry Pierce, ‘Alvaro Barrington’s Tate Commission is a sensory celebration’, Hero, 29 May 2024 Hetty Mahlich ‘Fashion's Favourite Artist Alvaro Barrington Launches Tate Show’, Showstudio, 28 May 2024 ‘Tate Britain Commission: Alvaro Barrington: GRACE’, Web Wire, 29 May 2024 Lisbeth Thalberg, ‘Alvaro Barrington’s GRACE: A Journey through Time and Culture at Tate Britain’, Martin Cid, 28 May 2024 Mark Westall, ‘Grace, A Major New Commission By Alvaro Barrington Unveiled By Tate Britain’, FAD Magazine, 28 May 2024 Ed Frankel, ‘Alvaro Barrington: ‘Grace’’, Time Out, 28 May 2024 Sean O’Hagan, ‘Biggie, Tupac, Ghostface – those guys saved my life’: Alvaro Barrington on hip-hop, carnival and his Tate show’, The Guardian, 26 May 2024 Michael Delgado, ‘“My art’s got to be a carnival, I’m there with you” – an interview with Alvaro Barrington’, Apollo, 24 May 2024 Louisa Buck, ‘Alvaro Barrington: the artist bringing carnival and the Caribbean to Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries’, The Art Newspaper, 28 May 2024 Jonathan Jones, ‘American action, blockbusting birds and Alvaro Barrington’s gallery takeover – the week in art’, The Guardian, 24 May 2024 Michael Delgado, ‘Crowd Pleaser’, Apollo, May 2024, pp. 50 – 55 Ashleigh Kane, ‘May 2024 exhibitions: Art shows to leave the house for this month’, Dazed, 24 April 2024 Federico Sargentone, ‘At “Loewe Lamps,” Brutalism Meets Poetry in Milan’, Interview, 23 April 2024 Dan Thawley ‘Fashion and Design Collide at Salone Del Mobile’, Business Of Fashion, 18 April 2024 Francesca Fontanesi ‘Loewe Lamps’, Muse, 17 April 2024 Colin Boyle, ‘For Salone del Mobile, Loewe invites 24 artists to reimagine the home’, Document Journal, 16 April 2024 ‘LOEWE Illuminates Salone del Mobile with Stunning Artist-Made Lamp Collection’, Rain, 16 April 2024 ‘Loewe Lamps’, SSI Life, 15 April 2024 William Van Meter, ‘Let There Be Light! Loewe Curates a Group Show of Lamps’ Artnet, 15 April 2024 Seb Emina, ‘The Art Of Making Art’, Fantastic Man, No. 38, 13 April 2024 George Pistachio, ‘Art Basel Hong Kong: The Best Booths to Visit at the Art Fair’ AnOther Magazine, 28 March 2024 ‘New York Symposium’, e-flux, 13 March 2024 Victoria L. Valentine, ‘2024 Tate Britain Commission Goes to Artist Alvaro Barrington: ‘My Mind Has Been Spinning Since I First Got Invited to Do It’, Culture Type, 12 March 2024 ‘Alvaro Barrington Chosen for Prestigious Tate Britain Commission’, Artlyst, 05 March 2024 Orla Brennan, ‘Five JW Anderson Fanatics On Why They Love The Label’s Off-Kilter Menswear’, AnOther Magazine, 15 January 2024 Tom Morton, ‘The Rise and Rise of Alvaro Barrington’, Art Basel, 08 January 2024 Sunil Gupta, ‘Alvaro Barrington by Sunil Gupta’, Middle Plane, No. 8, January 2024, pp. 214 – 239 |
| 2023 |
Amah-Rose Abrams, ‘They Got Time, You Belong To The City: Alvaro Barrington looks back’, Wallpaper, 17 November 2023 Elizabeth Hsieh, ‘Sumayya Vally and Alvaro Barrington Work Between The Folds of Familiar and Imaginative Belonging’, Document, 06 November 2023 Panashe Nyadundu, ‘The New Voices Of Frieze London To Watch’, Elle, 01 November 2023 ‘8 Artist Presentations You Won’t Want to Miss at Frieze London 2023’, Artnet, 13 October 2023 Skye Sherwin, ‘Which Artists are on Alvaro Barrington’s and Simone Leigh’s Radars?’, Frieze Week Magazine, 11 October 23 Maxwell Rabb, ‘10 Must-See Shows during Paris+ par Art Basel’, Artsy, 11 October 2023 Alayo Akinkugbe, ‘What to See at Frieze London 2023’, AnOther Magazine, 11 October 2023 Skye Sherwin, ‘Standing Together’, Frieze Week, 11 October 2023, p. 14 Mark Westall, ‘This September, Alvaro Barrington Will Present Grandma’s Land, A Major New Body of Work In Which The Artist Returns To His Early Experience Of Life Growing Up In The Caribbean’, FAD Magazine, 25 August 2023 Mark Westall, ‘Tate 2024 Exhibition Highlights Revealed’, Fad Magazine, 26 June 2023 Susan Acret, ‘Alvaro Barrington and Dean Cross: Landscape Is Country’, OCULA, 21 June 2023 Jo Higgins, ‘These Artists Shared Their Work Via Post, Now the Paint Is Almost Dry On The Result’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 June 2023 Alfred Mac Adam ‘Alvaro Barrington’, The Brooklyn Rail, 25 February 2023 |
| 2022 |
Sean Burns, Terence Trouillot and Chloe Stead, ‘Frieze Editors on the Artists and Trends of 2021’, Frieze, 17 December 2021 Tobi Onabolu, ‘The Innovators: Alvaro Barrington on Gratitude, Bad Faith, and Why It Takes Eight Galleries to Raise an Artist’, Artnet News, 05 December 2022 ‘Artist Alvaro Barrington Designs New Basketball Court in East London’, The Art Newspaper,30 November 2022 ‘2022 Artnet Innovators List’, Artnet, 30 November 2022 Amy Frearson, ‘Sumayya Vally creates Notting Hill Carnival pavilion with “a diasporic logic”’, Dezeen, 15 November 2022 Harriet Thorpe, ‘Alvaro Barrington Basketball Court in Bethnal Green Initiated by the London Lions’, ICON, 11 November 2022 Andy Butler, ‘Alvaro Barrington on Influence’, Vault, Issue 40 November 2022 to January 2023, pp. 26-31 Shawn Adams, ‘Notting Hill Carnival pavilion provides ‘a place to lime’ in London’, Wallpaper, 08 September 2022 Oliver Basciano, ‘’I fell asleep on a soundsystem!’ – the pyramid-building artists invading Notting Hill carnival’, The Guardian, 26 August 2022 Sam Gaskin and Michael Irwin, ‘Alvaro Barrington on Painting Trucks for Notting Hill Carnival 2022’, OCULA, 26 August 2022 Osman Can Yerebakan, ‘Alvaro Barrington’s paintings take a lifetime’, GQ Magazine, 04 May 2022 Caroline Ellen Liou, ‘Alvaro Barrington’s Love Letter to Los Angeles’, HYPERALLERGIC, 18 April 2022 Shawn Ghassemitari, ‘Alvaro Barrington Honors His Heroes in Blum & Poe Exhibition’, HYPE BEAST, 04 April 2022 Dua Lipa, ‘5 Visual Artists I’m Loving Right Now’, Newsletter #12, Service 95, April 2022 Alexandra Gordienko and Jodie Hill, ‘Alvaro Barrington’, MARFA #17, Spring-Summer 2022, pp. 148-161 Janelle Zara, ‘‘We saved each other’: Alvaro Barrington’s 90s hip-hop exhibition’, The Guardian, 29 March 2022 Nena Hawke, ‘Alvaro Barrington’s ‘La Vie en Rose’ Exhibition is an Homage to Tupac Shakur’, Black Book, 08 February 2022 Colby Chamberlain, ‘Alvaro Barrington’, ARTFORUM, January 2022 |
| 2021 |
Sam Gaskin, ‘Video Artists Occupy Public Screens in ‘LONDON ZEITGEIST’, Ocula, 06 July 2021 Kabir Jhala, ‘Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend’, The Art Newspaper, 18 June 2021 Gilda Williams, ‘Diary: Open Season’, ARTFORUM, 13 June 2021 Tomas Weber, ‘Alvaro Barrington’s Expansive Art’, ArtReview, 26 May 2021 Baya Simons and Rosanna Dodds, ‘Reclaiming the Canvas’, Financial Times, How to Spend it, The Hope Issue, 01 May 2021, pp. 44-51 Baya Simons and Rosanna Dodds, ‘Six artists reshaping our way of seeing’, How to Spend It, Financial Times, 26 April 2021 Skye Sherwin, ‘Artists on Artists: Alvaro Barrington’, Art Basel, 23 March 2021 Alvaro Barrington, ‘‘This Year Has Deranged My Senses’: 12 Artists on How the Pandemic Has Changed the Way They Approach Their Work’ [extract], Artnet News, 11 March 2021 Lanre Bakare, ‘Art: Black British artists send works to inspire children at school’, The Guardian, 05 March 2021 |
| 2020 |
Three Conversations Curated by Josh O’Connor’, Hero Magazine, November 2020, p. 90 Kate Eringer, ‘Frieze Art Fair By Kate Eringer for Purple Diary, Los Angeles’, Purple Diary, 23 February 2020 Charlotte Burns. ‘Frieze LA: The Sequel’, Art Agency Partners, 21 February 2020 Michael Juliano, ‘Frieze is here to let the art world know that L.A. is cool (but you already knew that)’, Time Out, 15 February 2020 José da Silva, ‘Artists go bumper to bumper at Frieze with auto-themed works’, The Art Newspaper, 15 February 2020 Kat Herriman, ‘Highlights From Frieze Week Los Angeles’, Cultured, 14 February 2020 Benjamin Sutton. ‘The 10 Best Booths at Frieze Los Angeles’, Artsy, 14 February 2020 Lucy Rees, ‘The Most Exciting Emerging Artists Spotted at Frieze L.A.’, Galerie Magazine, 14 February 2020 Rianna Jade Parker, ‘Review: Alvaro Barrington’, Frieze, No.208, January-February 2020, p. 177 Benoit Loiseau, ‘Painting Through Feelings with Alvaro Barrington’, The Face, Winter 2019-2020, pp. 274-279 Hans Ulrich Obrist (ed), ‘CATALOGUE: Thirty-Nine Artists and Their Unrealised Projects’, A Journal for Contemporary Art, Issue No. 4.5, 2020 |
| 2019 |
‘Best Shows of 2019’, A Quick One, December 2019 [e-newsletter] Zarina Muhammad, ‘Alvaro Barrington, ‘GARVEY: SEX LOVE NURTURING FAMALAY’ @ Sadie Coles HQ’, The White Pube, 03 November 2019 Kevin Brazil, ‘Alvaro Barrington: GARVEY: SEX, LOVE, NURTURING, FAMALAY’, The White Review, October 2019 Rianna Jade Parker, ‘Finding Sex, Love and Famalay with Alvaro Barrington at Sadie Coles’, Frieze, 23 October 2019 Farah Nayeri, ‘The Painter Alvaro Barrington on the Art He ‘Steals’ From’, The New York Times, 26 June 2019 Alain Elkann, ‘Alvaro Barrington’, Alain Elkann Interviews, 23 June 2019 Mark Beech, ‘Basquiat, Twombly Star in Spectacular “Artists I Steal From” at Thaddaeus Ropac, London’, Blouin Artinfo, 18 June 2019 Eddy Frankel, ‘Artists I Steal From review’, Time Out, 14 June 2019 Louisa Buck, ‘Great artists steal: Alvaro Barrington's new show reveals eclectic range of influences’, The Art Newspaper, 06 June 2019 ‘Alvaro Barrington. ARTISTS I STEAL FROM’, Yes & No, Issue No. 02:04, Spring Summer 2019, pp.20-27 Christopher Schreck, ‘Alvaro Barrington: Seeing Together’, Kaleidoscope, Issue 34, Spring / Summer 2019, pp. 62-63 |
| 2018 |
‘Say More Feel More Create More’, I-D, Spring 2018, p. 76 Gabriella Nugent, ‘Alvaro Barrington & David Weiss: A Different World’, The Brooklyn Rail, 07 February 2018 Jennifer Landes, ‘Rental’s ‘Woven’ Excites and Soothes’, The East Hampton Star, 09 January 2018 |
| 2017 |
Matthew J. Abrams, ‘Studio Visit: Alvaro Barrington at MoMA PS1’, BOMB Magazine, 04 December 2017 Cristine Brache, ‘” Good Art Always Gives”: Alvaro Barrington’s Generous First Solo at PS1’, ArtSlant, 14 November 2017 Dana Kopel, ‘Combining Histories: Alvaro Barrington and Dana Kopel in conversation’, Mousse Magazine: Once – Over, 09 November 2017 |