BIO

Luis Alvaro Sahagún Nuño
An interdisciplinary artist whose practice weaves Mexican craft traditions and curanderismo, he reimagines ancestral rituals as transformative acts of healing. Guided by the Medicine Wheel, his work takes the form of ritual, offering, and meditation - centering resilience within community, labor, and cultural preservation. Through this practice, he reclaims and recontextualizes Indigenous traditions, emphasizing art’s capacity to restore spiritual, cultural, and historical connection.

Sahagún Nuño received a BFA from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and an MFA from Northern Illinois University. His work is part of the permanent collections of Fidelity, AltaMed, Amir Shariat, and the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art. He has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Ogden Contemporary, Roswell Museum Art Center, DePaul Art Museum, Freeport Art Museum, Charlie James Gallery, the Chicago Cultural Center, Arvika Konsthall (Sweden), the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, EXPO Chicago, NADA Art Fair, and the University of Virginia, among others. His work has been featured in Artforum, Hyperallergic, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Univision, FOX, NBC, NPR, and The Latinx Project (NYC).

He currently lives and works in Asheville, NC.