Alvaro Barrington was born on 1 February 1983 in Caracas, Venezuela, the son of a Grenadian mother and Haitian father.
[1] Barrington attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and then trained at Hunter College in New York.
[6][7] Barrington's first solo exhibition, at MoMA PS1 in 2017, was a re-creation of his whole London studio in the New York gallery.
It featured the works of 48 artists selected by Barrington including Willem de Kooning, Cy Twombly and Katharina Grosse, alongside one of his own mixed-media pieces, Unc you the Plug (2019).
[12] Grace was accompanied by a soundscape, evoking rain on the tin roof of Barrington’s grandmother's house in Grenada, including broadcasts from Hackney-based NTS Radio, enhancing the immersive recreation of the artist's childhood environment.