Alvaro Barrington has bopped around quite a few times in his life. The rising painter was born to Grenadian-Haitian parents in Caracas, Venezuela, but saw much of his coming of age transpire between Brooklyn and the Caribbean. Currently, he is based in London, where he has lived and worked for nearly a decade since graduating from the Slade School of Art in 2017. Barrington understands: no matter where you are in the world, you’ve always “gotta’ be fresh,” he tells Hypeart, “because you’re always going to be representing where you’re from.”
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