Anthony Almendarez

Anthony Almendárez is an artist and composer working with sound, performance, video, and installation. His work explores modes of storytelling that reorders, remixes, and plays with the intersection between art, literature, and music, using sound as a point of departure. Almendárez’s work has been presented nationally and internationally including at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada; CIRCA, London, UK; Seen:Sound Visual/Music, Melbourne, Australia; ECHOFLUXX 19, Prague, Czech Republic; Conservatoire Maurice Ravel, Paris, France; Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, IL; Miami New Media Festival; Artpace, San Antonio; Aurora Picture Show; Blaffer Art Museum; and Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX. He is the recipient of artist grants from YES Contemporary and the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance. Writing on his work has been featured in publications including Moving Image Art London, The Invisible Archive Journal, Voyage Houston, and Glasstire. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Almendárez is currently based in Houston where he is an Administrative Coordinator for Nameless Sound. He received his BA in Music Education from California State University, Dominguez Hills; MA in Music Theory and Composition from Marshall University; and the MFA in Music/Sound from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.