Francisco Jose Alvarez Flores was born in Santiago on March 23 of year 1955, mechanic teacher mother and father. Whoa grows in the neighborhood and studied at the Scuola Italiana. Cursun year of architecture at Catholic University of Valparaiso, and in the year 1974 entered the School of Fine Arts at the University of Chile. In the School of Fine Arts has classes with Adolfo Couve, who decisively influenced his art. In the year 1977 travels to settle on the island of Calbuco, where he works and lives for 7 years. Reaffirming the nature and reality as a ground and pillar of his artistic eye. In the galley of this site you can see some works that have been recovered in that period. In 1985 he returned to Santiago, is reinserted into artistic medium and exposed for the first time university work individually, resulting in Calbuco and his recent work in the Gohete Institute. Then will come in 2 exhibitions Cerro Galera in the years 1990 and 92. An intimate exhibition, with motifs taken from everyday life and rescuing domestics baa light of eternity to objects and places. Works made in the Bellavista neighborhood in the company of his companion of that great designer Mara little Solimano Ins. The next few periods of life and work estligado the birth of her first child and Mythic Taller San Ignacio. Where together with - in that little - emerging young artists staged a chapter of art history by creating the first national Open Workshop, a form of direct selling artists, which is then installed as a pr PRACTICE common in all artistic workshops. Presented together in Sweden, Guatemala, Argentina, USA and La Galera Praxis, the Cultural Center of Spain and finally in a major exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art at the expo. Ark. Occasion in publishing a book with the exhibits. Pancho Alvarez exposes simultaneously in Contemporary Art Galley. Unfortunately during these exhibitions, a raging fire consumes San Ignacio full the workshop overnight, and that ends PERIOD. Meanwhile his two other children born in 2002 out in the Art Gallery of Cecilia Palma with his close friend Michael Wright. Currently preparing a new exhibition, works and teaches at the Workshop 56 in the neighborhood Bellavista