Alex Carver (b. Boise, Idaho) currently lives and works between New York and Boise. He earned an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from the Cooper Union, both in New York.
His recent solo and two-person presentations include ‘Expanded Skin’ at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2024); ‘Porous Images’ at Blue Galleries, Boise State University, Idaho (2023); ‘A Desired Mesh’, Art Basel Parcours, Museum der Kulturen Basel, Switzerland (2023); ‘Engineer Sacrifice’ and ‘Sequence 8: one work, on or two weeks’ at Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (both 2022). Notable recent group exhibitions include ‘Ugly Painting’, organised by Dean Kissick and Eleanor Cayre, Nahmad Contemporary, New York (2023); ‘Synthetic Bodies’, Lyles & King, New York (2023); and ‘Our Other Us’, 4th Art Encounters Biennial, curated by Mihnea Micron and Kasia Redzisz, Timișoara, Romania (2021). Carver’s collaborative feature film with Daniel Schmidt, The Unity of All Things, was presented at the 2013 Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland. Other film works of his have been shown in international venues and festivals such as Tate Modern, London (2018); the Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York (2016); Berlinale Internationale Filmfestspiele, Berlin (2015); the Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania (2015); Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Switzerland (2014); and the Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada (2013), among others. ‘Effigy’, a solo exhibition of new work by the artist, will open on 24 April 2025 at White Cube, Seoul.
Text courtesy White Cube

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