Alex Heilbron

b. San Rafael, CA

Lives / Works in Los Angeles, CA


EDUCATION

2017- 2020
University of California Los Angeles, M.F.A in Painting and Drawing
2014 - 2017
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Meisterschüler from Christopher Williams
2005 - 2009
San Francisco Art Institute, B.F.A in Painting

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024
Assembler, Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver, BC
2023
Apophenic, Meliksetian Briggs, Dallas, TX
2022
Pre-Nuptial Agreement, NADA, New York, NY
2021
Time and Intent, Meliksetien Briggs, Los Angeles, CA
2020
High Shame, Hiestand Galleries, Oxford, Ohio
2017
Scent Description for a Young Woman, Ashley, Berlin, Germany
Before Physician Narratives Came Patient Narratives, Storage Capacite, Düsseldorf, Germany

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
Born Digital, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2023
At the Wolford House, Wolford House, Los Angeles, CA
California Subject, Temples, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Women Painting Women, The Modern, Fort Worth, TX
Cassoni (*with Niko Chodor), Anne Baurrault, Paris, France
2021
Riviera Parking, (*as Riviera Parking) Studio For Artistic Research, Düsseldorf, Germany
Sub-Shapes, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
C’BARET What Not/Speak Easy, LAXART, Los Angeles, California
2017
the body is a temple and a body is a subject and a temple has walls – it becomes apparent that a temple is a body, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Visual Athletics, Cosmo Sports, Düsseldorf, Germany
2016
Mise En Abyme, Good Press Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Expi50/50loveja, Container, Düsseldorf, Germany
Makes Your Soul Feel Good Forever #2, Good Forever, Düsseldorf, Germany
She Hated Haiku, Poppy’s, Sacramento, CA
2015
Too Good to Be True, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Mittagstisch, Ladybug House, San Francisco, CA
2014
Wacky Worlds, Mission Comics, San Francisco, CA
Above the Wall Below the Wall, Unit Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Speed Dating, Zollamt, Offenbach, Germany
Kanadianish Deutsch Freundschaft, Lucky's Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2013
Sleepover, Positive/Negative, Vancouver, BC
All the Rotten Eggs In One Basket, Gallery Fukai, Vancouver, BC

AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES

2023
Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
2021
Canadian Council for the Arts, Research and Creation Grant
Kala Art Institute Residency, Berkeley, CA
2019 - 2020
Helen Frankenthaler Painting Award
2019 - 2020
British Columbia Arts Scholarship
2019
William and Dorothy Yeck Purchase Award

PUBLICATIONS

2022
Publication for the exhibition, Women Painting Women, Edited with text by Andrea Karnes. Preface by Marla Price. Text by Emma Amos, Faith Ringgold, and Lorna Simpson.

TEACHING AND LECTURES

2024
Artist Talk and Graduate studio visits, University of Dallas, Texas and Museum of Contemporary Art, Dallas
2024
Artist Talk, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
2023 - present
Scripps College, Department of Art, Visiting Lecturer
2022 - 2023
University of California Santa Barbara, Art Department Visiting Lecturer
2022
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon, Artist Talk
2021
University of California Santa Barbara, Artist Talk as Riviera Parking
2020
Miami University, Artist Talk