Alvaro Labañino

Alvaro Labañino uses restrained color, geometric partitions, and ordinary domestic objects to explore isolation, memory, and inherited diaspora experience.

• Born in Miami in 1989; BFA with honors in Painting and minor in Art History, Florida International University, 2012; MFA, FIU, 2017.
• He maintains an active studio in Miami and has worked in academic and fine-art framing sectors.

• Mental Labyrinths & Inner Thresholds.
• The Unpopulated Studio.
• Domestic Artifacts & The Commonplace.
• Wanderlust & Purposeful Travel.

• 2018: Echoes of Silence, Coral Springs Museum of Art, Florida.

• 2026: Circular Reflections, Westchester Regional Library, Miami.
• 2025: Circular Reflections, St. Thomas University, Miami.
• 2022: Florida Biennial, Museum of Arts & Sciences, Daytona Beach.
• 2012: BFA Graduation Exhibition, Frost Art Museum, Miami.

• 2019: Honorable Mention, Alexandria Museum of Art.
• 2018: 2nd Place Award, Arts Council of Martin County.
• 2012: Geoffrey Olsen Painting Award, Florida International University.

• 2026: Catálogo: Reflexiones Circulares [Curaduría: Miguel Rodez].
• 2025: Rodez, Miguel. Circular Reflections: Cuban Art Documentation Project.
• 2018: Jesús Rosado. “Echoes of Silence: Alvaro Labañino.”

• The Rodríguez Collection Permanent Art Archive.
• Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas Registry.
• DAW Fine Art Permanent Collection.