Celia Álvarez Muñoz is a conceptual multi-media Texas artist known for her diverse works including artist’s books, photography, installation, and public art. She is a recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Awards in Photography and New Genres, the CAA Committee on Women in the Arts Recognition Award, the Honors Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts by Women’s Caucus for Art, the Outstanding Centennial Alumnus by the University of North Texas College of Arts and Sciences, and many others. Her work has been nationally and internationally exhibited, including in the Whitney Museum of American Art 1991 Biennial. Her art is in numerous private and public collections. Álvarez Muñoz’s work has recently been featured in the cataloged exhibition, “Radical Women: Latin American Art 1960-1985,” which toured internationally 2015-2018. Recent books covering her art include Art and Politics Now: Cultural Activism, by Susan Noyes Platt, 2011; Shooting from the Wild Side: A Study of Chicana Art Photographers, by Asta M. Kuusinen, 2006; Art of the Found Object: Texas Artists, by Robert James Craig, Texas A&M University Press 2017; Icons and Symbols of the Borderlands, by Diana Molina of Juntos Art 2020; and Celia Álvarez Muñoz, by writer/poet Roberto Tejada. Obras, published by Cattywampus Press, marked Álvarez Muñoz’s 2020 Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts Award from Art League Houston.