Andrius Alvarez-Backus

Andrius Alvarez-Backus is a Filipino-American interdisciplinary artist who works across sculpture, drawing, and painting. His mixed-media assemblages turn everyday objects into work about intimacy, embodiment, memory, and queer identity. He holds a BFA from The Cooper Union (2023) and an MFA from Columbia University (2025). He was a 2025-2026 artist at Smack Mellon and works as a communications lead at Queer|Art.