Andrius Alvarez-Backus (he/him; b. Warwick, NY) is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, drawing, and painting. Through mixed-media assemblage, he transforms everyday forms into surreal compositions that stage personal allegories of intimacy and embodiment drawn from his experience as a Filipino-American. His work interrogates where beauty and abjection meet, and how materiality conveys cultural meaning.

He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (2023), and his Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University (2025). His work has been shown internationally at the Wallach Art Gallery, Gallery Vacancy, Eli Klein Gallery, Fragment Gallery, Latitude Gallery, SK Gallery, Plato Gallery, MAMA Projects, Black Brick Project, Nguyen Wahed, and The Blanc, among others. His first museum solo exhibition, Desastre!, was on view at the Fitchburg Art Museum from June through August 2023, where his work is also included in the permanent collection. Recent honors include the Richard Lewis Bloch Memorial Prize, the Martin A. Rothenberg Travel Fellowship, the D'Arcy Hayman Scholarship, and the Quinta Carolina Scholarship. His work has been featured in The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, WhiteHot Magazine, Art Spiel, Impulse Magazine, and The Boston Art Review. He was the inaugural Nicholas Dahl Visiting Artist at the Provincetown Art Association & Museum in 2025, and is an artist-in-residence at Smack Mellon from 2025-2026.

Alvarez-Backus currently serves as the Communications Director at Queer|Art, the New York City-based nonprofit empowering LGBTQ+ artists across generations and disciplines.