Pedro Diego Alvarado was born in Mexico City 1956 in a family of engravers and painters. His paternal grandfather was Carlos Alvarado Lang and Diego Rivera his maternal grandfather.<br />Following a short tenure at the Escuela de Pintura “La Esmeralda,” he attended the class of Gilberto Aceves Navarro in the Academia de San Carlos from 1974 -77. <br />He moved to Paris in 1977 to study at the Ecole National des Beaux Arts. Henri Cartier-Bresson becomes his friend and mentor. At the Atelier Clot Bramsen et Georges, he learns lithography. <br />Back in Mexico, during the decade of the eighties, he paints in the studio of the painter Ricardo Martínez and learns the Venetian Technique with the painter Vlady (Serge).<br />In 1984, Alvarado holds his first one man show in the Galería de Arte Mexicano, and in 1991 he paints a 60 square meter mural for the lobby of the Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico.<br />In England, during 1994, Alvarado works as assistant to the Nicaraguan painter Armando Morales. Pedro Diego Alvarado presents individual exhibitions regularly and has participated in many collective shows in Mexico and internationally<br />
