Born 1960 in Denver, Colorado
Lives and works in Massachusetts
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
2002
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, New York
2006
The Lewis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, New York
2010
New York Foundation for the Arts Painting Fellowship
2012
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Individual Support Grant, New York
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
Alexander Ross: Recent Terrestrials, David Nolan Gallery, New York
2013
Recent Paintings and Drawings, Galerie Hussenot, Paris
2012
Terrestrial Exemplars, Nolan Judin, Berlin
2011
Collage Drawings, New York Foundation for the Arts, Brooklyn, New York
Alexander Ross: Recent Paintings, David Nolan Gallery, New York
2010
Galerie Hussenot, Paris
2008
Drawings 2000-2008, Nolan Judin, Berlin
Recent Drawings, David Nolan Gallery, New York
New Work, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2007
Worcester Art Museum, Renaissance Court Wall, Worcester, Massachusetts
2006
Recent Work, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
2005
Recent Paintings and Drawings, Feature Inc., New York
Survey, Contemporary Art Museum of Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri
2004
New Paintings, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami
Preview of New Paintings, Feature Inc., New York
2003
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Paintings and Drawings, Feature Inc., New York
New Paintings, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami
2001
Recent Drawings, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami
2000
Recent Work, Feature Inc., New York
1999
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1998
Paintings, Feature Inc., New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
Influence, curated by Oliver Wasow, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, New York
The Guston Effect, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA
2014
Spaced Out: Migration to the Interior, curated by Phong Bui, Red Bull Studios, New York
TOSSED: Organized by Jennifer Coates and Rachel Schmidhofer, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, New York
Ellen Berkenblit, Steve Dibenedetto, Philip Hanson, Barry Le Va, Albert Oehlen, Alexander Ross, Rebecca Shore, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Let’s Go, Let Go: In Memoriam Hudson, 33 Orchard, New York
This One's Optimistic: Pincushion, Curated by Cary Smith, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Haven
2013
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, curated by Phong Bui, Industry City, Brooklyn, New York
40 Years at the Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Ambach & Rice, Los Angeles
Imprinted Pictures, Cheymore Gallery, Tuxedo Park, New York
2012
THING: An Outdoor Sculpture Show, curated by Susan Jennings, W. Cornwall, Connecticut
Summer, David Nolan Gallery, New York
2011
MELT, Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
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, Vermont
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, New York
The 2006 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Frontiers: Collecting the Art of Our Time, Worcester Art Museum, Worchester, Massachusetts
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, Missouri
Survey, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri
Alexander Ross + Wayne Gonzalez, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
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
SITE Sante Fe’s Fifth International Biennial, Sante Fe Biennial, Sante Fe, New Mexico
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
Everybody knows this is Nowhere, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami
Painting and Illustration, The Luckman Fine Arts Complex, 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, Massachusetts
Synth, organized by Leo Villareal, White Columns, New York
Painting/Not Painting, curated by Peter Rostovsky and Rachel Urkowitz, White Columns, New York
Miss Univers, Art: Concept, Paris
2000
Drawings & Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Drawing, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Alex8, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami
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, Massachusetts
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, New York
Superorganic Hydroponic Warfare, Derek Eller Gallery, New York
Group Show, curated by Ross Bleckner, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm
1999
1999 Drawings, Alexander and Bonin, New York
Pictorial Abstraction, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia
What Big Is, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
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
1998
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
WOp, ANP, Antwerp
Paper View, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Spectacular Optical, Thread Waxing Space, New York
View 3, curated by Klaus Kertess, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1997
Swamp Thing, Salon 75, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Joel Beck
New American Talent: The Thirteenth Exhibition, organized by the Texas Fine Arts Association and curated by Robert Storr, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton; traveled to Texas Fine Arts Association at CenterSpace, Austin
1996
Relief Pieces, Feature Inc., New York
Ab Fab, Feature Inc., New York
A4 Favours, curated by Padraig Timony, Three Month Gallery, Liverpool
Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York
1995
Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York