Biography |
| 1960 | Born in Denver, Colorado |
| 1983 | BFA, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, with distinction |
| 1997 | Philip Morris Juror’s Merit Award, New American Talent: The Thirteenth Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association |
| 1998 | The Tesuque Foundation, Artist Fellowship Grant, Chicago |
| 2000 | American Artists at Giverny, Residency Grant, Art Production Fund, New York |
| 2006 | The Lewis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award |
| 2007 | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship |
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| Lives and works in New York. |
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Selected Solo Exhibitions |
| 2011 | Recent Paintings, David Nolan Gallery, New York |
| 2010 | Galerie Hussenot, Paris |
| 2008 | David Nolan Gallery, New York |
| Drawings 2000 – 2008, Nolan Judin, Berlin |
| Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York |
| 2007 | Renaissance Court Wall, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester |
| 2006 | Recent Work, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 2005 | Recent Paintings and Drawings, Feature, Inc., New York |
| 2004 | New Paintings, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami |
| Preview of New Paintings, Feature, Inc., New York |
| 2003 | Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles |
| Feature Inc., New York |
| 2001 | Recent Drawings, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami |
| 2000 | Recent Work, Feature Inc., New York |
| 1999 | Alexander Ross, Mary Boone Gallery, New York |
| 1998 | Paintings, Feature Inc., New York |
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Selected Group Exhibitions |
| 2011 | MELT, Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY |
| 2010 | Pastorale, curated by Klaus Kertess, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York |
| Summer Group Show, David Nolan Gallery, New York |
| 2009 | Morphological Mutiny: Steve DiBenedetto, Alexander Ross, and James Siena, Nolan Judin Berlin, Berlin; traveled to David Nolan Gallery, New York |
| Drawing Itself: A Survey of Contemporary Practice, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT |
| Extreme Frontiers/Urban Frontiers, Institute of Contemporary Art, Valencia, Spain |
| NY Masters, Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris |
| Slough, David Nolan Gallery, New York |
| 2007 | In Monet’s Garden: The Lure of Giverny, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio |
| Horizon, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York |
| Neo-Integrity, Derek Eller Gallery, New York |
| 2006 | Three Exhibitions Regarding Nature, Feature, Inc., New York |
| Surrealism, Then and Now, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York |
| Twice Drawn, The Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs |
| The 2006 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln |
| 2005 | Remote Viewing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; traveled to |
| St. Louis Museum of Art, Missouri |
| Realism and Abstraction: Six Degrees of Separation, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City |
| Survey, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri |
| 2004 | Our Grotesque, Curated by Robert Storr, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| Colored Pencil, K.S. Art, New York |
| Drawing II (Selected), G-Module, Paris |
| Endless Love, D.C. Moore Gallery, New York |
| 2003 | Giverny, Salon 94, New York |
| Mighty Graphitey, Feature, Inc., New York |
| Nature Boy, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York |
| On Line, Feigen Contemporary, New York |
| Ballpoint Inklings, K.S. Art, New York |
| 2002 | Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York |
| Miss Universe, Art Concept, Paris |
| Ballpoint Inklings, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts |
| Group Drawing Show, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 2001 | Arte Contemporaneo Internacional, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City |
| Works of SOLO Impression, Myers School of Art, University of Akron, Ohio |
| Luck of the Drawn, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington |
| Synth, White Columns, New York, organized by Leo Villareal |
| Painting/Not Painting, White Columns, New York, curated by Peter Rostovsky and Rachel Urkowitz |
| 2000 | Drawings & Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York |
| Drawing, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London |
| Alex8, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, Florida |
| Paper Trail Pt. 2, Shaheen Modern and Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio |
| Grok Terrence McKenna Dead, Feature Inc., New York |
| 00 Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York |
| Useful Indiscretions: works on paper, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington |
| 23rd Benefit Auction Exhibition, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York |
| Almost Something: Depictive Abstraction, Catherine Moore Fine Art, New York |
| anp City Projects, Cokkie Senoei, Rotterdam |
| Hairy Forearm’s Self-Referral, Feature Inc., New York |
| Group Exhibition, M du B, F, H & g, Montreal |
| Greater New York, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City |
| Superorganic Hydroponic Warfare, Derek Eller Gallery, New York |
| Group Show, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, curated by Ross Bleckner |
| 1999 | 1999 Drawings, Alexander and Bonin, New York |
| Pictorial Abstraction, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia |
| What Big Is, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington |
| Alexander Ross and Lucky DeBellevue, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London |
| Curious Parking @ Stupendous Strawberry, S & H DeBuck, Ghent, Belgium |
| Cookie Snow Feature Inc., Cokkie Senoei, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1998 | Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| WOp, ANP, Antwerp |
| Paper View, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington |
| Spectacular Optical, Thread Waxing Space, New York |
| View 3, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, curated by Klaus Kertess |
| 1997 | Swamp Thing, Salon 75, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Joel Beck |
| New American Talent: The Thirteenth Exhibition, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton; Texas Fine Arts Association at Center Space, Austin; organized by the Texas Fine Arts Association; curated by Robert Storr |
| 1996 | Relief Pieces, Feature, Inc., New York |
| Ab Fab, Feature, Inc., New York |
| A4 Favours, Three Month Gallery, Liverpool, UK, curated by Padraig Timony |
| Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York |
| 1995 | Group Show, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York |
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Publications |
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Monographs And Catalogues |
| 2008 | Carroll Dunham, Robert Storr, Recent Drawings, David Nolan Gallery. |
| 2006 | Dina Deitsch, Alexander Ross, in The 2006 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, Lincoln: DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park. |
| 2005 | Elizabeth M Grady, Alexander Ross, in Elisabeth Sussman, ed., Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. |
| 2004 | Robert Storr, Alexander Ross, in Sarah S. King, ed., Disparities & Deformations, Our Grotesque, Santa Fe: SITE Santa Fe. |
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Reviews |
| 2007 | Review, Horizon, The New Yorker, July 23, 2007. |
| 2006 | Shawn Hill, The 2006 DeCordova Exhibition, Dig, May 31, 2006. |
| Cate McQuaid, Controlled Chaos, The Boston Globe, May 5, 2006. |
| Christopher Millis, Good Behavior, The Boston Phoenix, May 19, 2006. |
| David Pagel, Color and Texture as Playthings, The Los Angeles Times, February 17, 2006. |
| 2005 | Andrea K Scott, World Piece, Time Out New York, July 28, 2005. |
| Grace Glueck, Tapping Into A Glut of Information and Making Sense (and Art) of It All, The New York Times, June 3, 2005. |
| David Cohen, Gallery Going, The New York Sun, April 7, 2005. |
| Ken Johnson, Alexander Ross, The New York Times, April 1, 2005. |
| Sean Manning, Alexander Ross, New York Press, March 16, 2005. |
| 2004 | David Cohen, Gallery Going, The New York Sun, March 11, 2004. |
| Elisa Turner, Photos of green things become weird works of art, The Miami Herald, February 10, 2004. |
| 2003 | Damarys Ocana, Tales of suspense, Miami Street, December 26, 2003. |
| Robert Storr, Warts and all: the art of Alexander Ross, Artforum, September 2003. |
| Roberta Smith, Mighty Graphitey, The New York Times, August 9, 2003. |
| David Cohen, Gallery Going, The New York Sun, July 17, 2003. |
| 2002 | Jerry Saltz, Sleepers Awake, The Village Voice, November 2002. |
| Carroll Dunham, Artists Curate, Artforum, October 2002. |
| 2001 | Frances Richard, Review, Artforum, March 2001. |
| 2000 | Roberta Smith, Art in Review, The New York Times, December 1, 2000. |
| Max Henry, Portals of Discovery, artnet.com Magazine, November 2000. |
| Klaus Kertess, The Story of 00, Gladstone Gallery, New York. |
| Catherine Hong, United Artists, Harper's Bazaar, May 2000. |
| Review, Superorganic Hydroponic Warfare, The New Yorker, March 6, 2000. |
| 1999 | Angus Ivy, Review (WOp), Zing Magazine, Summer 1999. |
| Jeremy Lin, Alexander Ross, Cellular One, Surface, Summer 1999. |
| Andrea K Scott, Reviews, Time Out New York, April 29, 1999. |
| Holland Cotter, Art in Review, The New York Times, April 23, 1999. |
| Christian Viveros-Faune, Green Machine, New York Press, April 7, 1999. |
| Luc Lambrecht, Amerikaans en Toch Niet, De Morgen, February 12, 1999. |
| Bert Popelier, Jonge Amerikanen, Financieel Economasche Tijd, February 3, 1999. |
| Edith Dove, Wonderlijke Combinaties, De Standaard, February 3, 1999. |
| Phoebe Hoban, The Mod Squad, New York Magazine, January 11, 1999 |
| 1998 | Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Call it Godzilla, Tema Celeste, October-December 1998. |
| Eleanor Heartney, Alexander Ross at Feature, Art in America, July 1998. |
| Ken Johnson, View Three, The New York Times, May 1998. |
| Andrew Decker, The Art of Now, Diversion, April 1998. |
| Review, Goings on About Town, The New Yorker, January 19, 1998. |
| David Ebony, Review, David Ebony's Top Ten, artnet.com Magazine, January 1998. |
| Kim Levin, Alexander Ross/Bome/Drawers, Village Voice/Choices, January 1998. |
| 1997 | Robert Storr, Texas Shuffle; Essay on New American Talent, Art News, December 1997. |
| 1996 | Tom Moody, Group Show, Mitchel Algus Gallery, Art Papers, Vol. 20 #1, January/February 1996. |
