Alexis Ross
Alexis Ross is a multi-disciplinary auteur who paints, draws, creates film sets, makes installations and inhabit several wonderful characters. He is magnificent storyteller and an avid public bath man. Alexis Ross is a reluctant exhibitor, but shows include Cop & Blow, So Fine Arts, Los Angeles, A Brief History Of the 20th Century Spa Gangs of Los Angeles, a site-specific installation in Gagnef, Sweden with Andreas Nilsson, and the now seminal Beautiful Losers exhibitions in Los Angeles and Tokyo.
Born 1972 in Norwalk, CT
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
Graduate Venice High School 1990
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Part Time Lover, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015
Cop & Blow, So Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Gray Wall Series, Alias East, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Leg Life, Café Legs #2, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
V1 XX - Twenty years of V1 Gallery, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020
MINE IV, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019
MINE III, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
New York Art Book Fair, V1 Gallery, New York, USA
2018
MINE II, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
New York Art Book Fair, V1 Gallery, New York, USA
2015
Under Heavy Manners, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014
Cash Machine, Father Son Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Beyond Elegance, Valmorbida Projects, New York
2011
Art In The Streets, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Contemporaries, Patricia Armocida Gallery, Milan
2009
Benefit Art Auction, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
2008
Beautiful Losers, Laforet Museum, Tokyo
2007
Letters First, Known Gallery, Los Angeles
SELECTED PROJECTS
2016
A Brief History Of the 20th Century Spa Gangs Of Los Angeles, site specific installation in Gagnef Sweden with Andreas Nillson
2009
Café Legs, a site-specific pop-up conceptual art cafe installation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, RVCA Boutique, Los Angeles, Ron Herman , Tokyo
Snow Cholo, site-specific installation Estrada Courts Housing projects, Los Angeles
2008
Billboard Project, site-specific billboard on La Brea Ave. In Los Angeles, collaboration with Undefeated and Nike
2007
7th Street Truck Yard, lettering on ice cream trucks (in collaboration with Jonathan Bleser), Community improvement project which included re-painting lettering and imagery on neighbourhood ice cream trucks, Los Angeles
Photobooth Project, Barnsdall Park Gallery, Los Angeles
2005-2007
Dreamland Artist Club, in conjunction with Creative Time, NY, sign painting and homemade tattoos in historic Coney Island
2002
Gents Of Desire, creation of a loose-knit social club involving creative personalities from across three continents.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Juxtapoz Magazine, Artist Feature, April 2014
L’Officiel Hommes, Paris, August 2012
Juxtapoz Magazine, April 2011
Los Angeles Times, July 6, 2008, Ronit Nabi & Erin Wenger
Los Angeles Times, September 27, 2007, Elina Shatkin
Juxtapoz Magazine, Spring 2007
May 2006, Artkip Magazine, Issue 22, Artist Feature.
New York Times, Randy Kennedy, June 17, 2005
ANP Quarterly, Issue 11, Artist Feature. 2005
New York Times, Ken Johnson, August 20, 2004
New York Times, Carol Vogel, June 4, 2004
Dazed & Confused, Amy Twort. July, 2002
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