BIOGRAPHY & C.V.

Shannon Alonzo (b.1988, St.Joseph, Trinidad and Tobago) is an interdisciplinary artist focusing primarily on drawing, sculpture and performance. Her practice explores themes of collective belonging, place attachment and the significance of carnival ritual to the Caribbean consciousness. She holds a BA from London College of Fashion and MRes Creative Practice from the University of Westminster.

 

Alonzo has been working in the creative industries since 2011, within a variety of roles including visual art, costume design and production design. In 2025 she presented both sculptural and performance works at the Weltmuseum in Vienna and was invited to lead a series of workshops through the::sense::archive at Haverford College, Philadelphia. In 2024, she was commissioned to present work at Prospect 6 in New Orleans and participated in the exhibition ‘Hard Graft’ at the Wellcome Collection in London.  In 2023 she was the recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the Caribbean Cultural Institute of the Perez Art Museum Miami and has exhibited work at the Liverpool Biennial 2023, Documenta Fifteen in Germany,  Ambika P3 and London Gallery West in the U.K, Alice Yard, Y Gallery, and Loftt Gallery in Trinidad & Tobago and the Atlantic World Art Fair on Artsy.