Alex KVARES
BIO
Education
2000
University of Texas, Austin, TX, MFA, Printmaking
1997
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, BFA, Painting
Selected Publications & Reviews
2014
Lilly Lempe, Critic’s Picks (All My Work is Posthumous), Artforum
2011
Headache, Frederique Rusch and Alexandre Chaize, Editions du Livre, France
Felicia Feaster, Global Artists, Atlanta Magazine
New American Painting, #94, Open Studio Press
Wyatt Williams, A Few Questions with Alex Kvares and Mark Hosford, Creative Loafing Atlanta
2009
New American Painting, #82, Open Studio Press
2007
Katherine Fox, One Sharp Draftsman, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Felicia Feaster, Containment Strategy, Creative Loafing Atlant
Phil Oppenheim, Art Paper
2006
Felicia Feaster, Queer as Folk, Creative Loafing, January
Jerry Cullum, Funky Good Time, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 2
2005
New American Painting, #58, Open Studio Press, 3 images &text
Phil Oppenheim, Art Papers
Jerry Cullum, Board of Imagery, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
2004
Katherine Fox, Student of Subcultures, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
2002
New American Painting, #35, Open Studio Press
The Review, July
The Kansas City Star, June 29th
Selected Exhibitions
2014
All My Work Is Posthumous (solo), Mulherin+ Pollard, New York, NY
2013
Grid/Graph, Mulherin + Pollard, New York, NY
2012
Another Green World, Beep Beep Gallery, Atlanta, GA
AB FAB, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
SABOR!!, Leonard Codex, Brooklyn, NY
2011
Urban Mythos, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
SasnaK (with Mark Hosford), Beep Beep gallery, Atlanta. GA
2010
Mergers and Acquisitions Two, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
NEXT Art Fair, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Chicago, IL
On the Mark, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA
Movers & Shakers of the Georgia Arts Scene, MoCA GA, Atlanta, GA (Co-Curator)
2009
Microwave 7, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
Summer Shortcuts: a Drawing Forecast, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, NYC, NY
Gallery One Three Seven Project, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Golden Blizzard: Blizzard Sleeves (with Golden Blizzard), Kibbee Gallery, Atlanta
Oh So Fail (Solo), Beep Beep Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2008
West, Wester, Westest, Fecal Face Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Evil Prints: Outlaw Printmakers ’08, The Contemporary Art Museum, St.Louis, MO
Selects, Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007
The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Yes I Kansas, All Rise Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Young Movers and Shakers of the Georgia Art Scene, MOCA GA, Atlanta, GA
I’d Rather Be Drawing, Morgan gallery, Kansas City, MO
2006
A Tremble Away from a Wink (solo), Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Tomorrow’s Drawing Today, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
The Art Center, St. Petersburg, FL
From America, Minsk Museum of Modern Art, Minsk, Belarus (former USSR)
Bad Drawing: mistaken, misbehaving, malevolent, awful, University Galleries on Sycamore, Cincinnati, OH
Exquisite Corpse, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Golden Blizzard: a Retrospective (solo, Golden Blizzard Collective), Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Affair at the Jupiter Hotel , Contemporary Art Fair (solo exhibition and performance representing Atlanta Contemporary Art
Center, Golden Blizzard Collective), Portland, OR
Blow Me a Blizzard (solo, Golden Blizzard Collective), Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta,
Love Hurts (solo, Golden Blizzard Collective), Young Blood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Glitter Mortis (solo, Golden Blizzard Collective), Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, (MOCA GA), Atlanta, GA
2005
The Last Taboo, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA), Atlanta
Homegrown, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Winston-Salem, NC
Kaleidoscope, Woodruff Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Creepypeaches Meets Sugarboy and Madame X, University Gallery, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
Food, Gas & Lodging, Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2004
Sweet Flypaper of Life/ William Cordova, Kojo Griffin, Alexander Kvares, Charles Nelson, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Draw, Soo Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
Gun and Knife Show, Fahrenheit Gallery, Kansas City, MO
The Stray Show, 1418 N. Kingsbury, Chicago IL
2003
Atlanta Biennial, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Two For Flinching, City Gallery Chastain, Atlanta, GA
Tickled Pink, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
A Shot in the Dark (curator), Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
2002
Summer Invitational, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Strange Comfort, Gatov Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Alexander Kvares, Recent Work (solo), UNI Gallery of Art, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA
2001
Fresh, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2000
Kvares and Hosford, New Work, Slugfest gallery, Austin TX
Relativities (Traveling Exhibition),
Bankside Gallery, London, UK
The City Gallery, Leicester, UK
Aberyswyth Arts Center, Aberyswyth, UK
St. Barbe Museum, Lymington, UK
Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen, UK
Gracefield Arts Center, Shetland, UK
Off-Centre gallery, Bristol, UK
Bristol City Museum, Bristol, UK
1999
Murder (Traveling Exhibition)
Brazilian Cultural Center, Asncion, Paraguay
University of Windsor Art Gallery, Windsor, Canada
ISIS Gallery, University of Notre Dame, IN
Slugfest gallery, Austin TX
White Walls Gallery, Washington, DC
1998
Dakotas International Exhibition of Works on Paper, University of South Dakota Art Gallery, Vermilion, SD
Parkside National Small Prints Exhibition, University of Wisconsin Art Gallery, Kenosha, WI