Diana Yesenia Alvarado

Diana Yesenia Alvarado (born 1992) is a Chicana artist. Alvarado utilizes the medium of ceramics to express her Mexican heritage and recall her childhood in Los Angeles.

Biography Alvarado was born in 1992 and raised in Los Angeles, California. Her parents at a young age would separate, mainly living with her mother in Southeast LA and visiting her father between East and South LA. Additionally, the cartoonish figures with bright, colorful appearances that Alvarado creates are often likened to the visual elements of Los Angeles, such as “hand-painted characters on the side of liquor and grocery stores, [and] the multi-colored lettering on the window of the party supply store.” Alvarado has had 18 exhibitions in the past five years and has collaborated with artists like Alfonso Gonzalez Jr. and Jaime Muñoz.