Alex Israel

b. 1982, United States

Alex Israel was born in 1982 in Los Angeles, where he currently lives and works. Collections include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Broad, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Solo exhibitions include Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2013); Sightings, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2015–16); Alex Israel at The Huntington, Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA (2015); #AlexIsrael, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2016); Using Walls, Floors, and Ceilings, Jewish Museum, New York (2016–17); Waves, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria (2018); Alex Israel × Snapchat, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL (2021–22); and Freeway, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai (2021–22).

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