Alex Anderson
1990 Born in Seattle, WA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Education
2018 M.F.A., Ceramics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Post-graduate Independent Study in Ceramic Art and Ink Painting, funded with a Fulbright Grant, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
2013 B.A., Studio Art and Chinese, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
2011 Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Jingdezhen, China
Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions
2023 Not Romantic, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
2022 Alex Anderson and Michael Stamm, Deli Gallery, New York, NY
2021 The Gazing Pool, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2020 Little Black Boy Makes Imperial Porcelains, Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Wonderland, Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibitions
2023 Elsewheres, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
Clay Pop Los Angeles, curated by Alia Dahl, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
THIS TOO SHALL PASS, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY (forthcoming)
The Angels, BAIK ART, Seoul, South Korea
Making in Between: Queer in Clay, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
Funk You Too!, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
Tokyo Gendai Fair, Gallery Common, Tokyo, Japan
Barrio Barrio, Guerrero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Death of Beauty, Sargent’s Daughters, Los Angeles, CA
Love Letter to LA, Phillips, Los Angeles, CA
The Bunker Art Space, West Palm Beach, FL
2022 California Biennale 2022, Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA
Learn but the letters forme(d) by heart, Then soon you’l gain this noble art, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR
Now I am a Lake, Public Gallery, London, UK
Belonging, Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA
2021 Plush, Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX
Clay Pop, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Group Exhibition, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2020 Spatial Recollections, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
Summer Group Exhibition, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
The Body, The Object, The Other, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
18 LA Artists, Outono Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2019 The GAG, De Buck Gallery, New York, NY
Youngbloods, Quotidian, Los Angeles, CA
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Lararium, Deli Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Inaugural Palm Beach Exhibition, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Lore Re-Imagined, Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, WA
Praxis, LBMAx Gallery, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Every Unlikely Story, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
The New Contemporaries, Vol 1, RESIDENCY, Inglewood, CA
Fahrenheit 2018, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
2017 Art Basel Miami Beach, Booth F24, Gavlak Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
Meet Jingdezhen: China and US Academic Clay Works, Jingdezhen, China
SoCal MFA, Exhibition, Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, CA
Fear Itself: Haunted Memories, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA
Hotel Kalifornia, Galerie Lefebvre et Fils, Paris, France
Artist Lectures
2023 ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA (forthcoming)
2021 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2020 School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, IL
Pomona College, Pomona, CA
New York University, New York, NY
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
2018 California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), Long Beach, CA
University of Southern California (USC), Roski School of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
2015 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
Bibliography
2022 Vankin, Deborah, “Why the Orange County Museum of Art is resurrecting its longtime California Biennale,” Los Angeles Times. August 31, 2022
Anderson, Alex and Suzanne Isken, “[Object As...] Alex Anderson,” Craft Council
2021 Clayton, Dominique, “Felix Art Fair Proves Creativity Flourishes in the City of Angels,” Cultured
Castro, Lauren, “FELIX LA,” Flaunt
“Alex Anderson,” Label Magazine
2020 Cheng, Scarlet, “Alex Anderson: Just Like Gold,” Artillery Magazine
Vizcarrondo-Laboy, Angelik, “Seriously Cute: Six Artists Harnessing the Power Dichotomy of Cuteness,” Cultured
Cheng, Scarlet, “Alex Anderson, Just Like Gold,” Artillery
Campbell, Andy, “Alex Anderson,” Artforum
Kamp, Justin, “5 Must-See Ceramics Shows You Can View Online,” Artsy
Laster, Paul, “Social Studies: 5 Artists Addressing Communal Concerns,” Art and Object
Weitz, Julie, “Alex Anderson at Gavlak,” Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles
2019 Clayton, Dominique, “Baked to Perfection,” LALA Magazine
Laster, Paul, “Lore Re-Imagined: Shadows of our Ancestors,” Art Asia Pacific
2018 Ollman, Leah, “The Disturbing Meets the Sweet in Alex Anderson's New Sculptures at Gavlak,” Los Angeles Times
“Alex Anderson's 'Wonderland' at Gavlak Los Angeles,” Blouin Art Info
“Wonderland,” Wall Street International
2017 Studio Visit Magazine Issue 39; Issue 40
Public Collections
Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA
Swarthmore College Library, Swarthmore, PA