User:Madamguru

Nico Alonso (b.1991 in Teaneck, NJ) is an audio-visual artist, illustrator, and curator. A quotidian technologist, she uses consumer-accessible tools such as the iPhones, discarded televisions, home-electronics, and more, to produce her music and video works under the pseudonym MadamGuru. Her painting and illustration follow a similar trend, incorporating collagable found and dollar-store sourced materials; namely stickers, children’s drawings, and construction-detritus.

She has performed at the Weltzhiemer-Johnson Frank Lloyd Wright House, PS1 MoMA, Secret Project Robot, among other venues, and is featured in a video work addressing the international refugee crisis, which is currently touring throughout Europe and South America with The National Gallery of Ireland.

Alonso often works in an advisory capacity with artists to hone professional skills such as inventory and client management, invoicing, PR, and is an advocate for independently operating artists, curators, and organizers across arts disciplines. In October of 2014, Alonso co-curated artist Jason Akira Somma's debut solo museum show "Because I Hate Technology", which was on view at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, NL through January of 2015. Previously, she has worked with ROOM EAST gallery in New York, NY; the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, OH; the Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin, OH; SLP Art Culture Commerce in New York, NY; and more. Alonso is based in New York, NY. She is currently the Managing Editor and Staff for the nomadic art radio and events platform, Clocktower.