Alex Hubbard

Biography

Born 1975 in Toledo, US
Lives and works in Brooklyn, US

Education

1994-1996

  • BA, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, US

1997-1999

  • BFA, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, US

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2012

  • Alex Hubbard: Bent Paintings (Why Horses Paint), Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Alex Hubbard: Eat Your Friends, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
  • Hammer Projects: Alex Hubbard, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US

2011

  • Art Statements, Art 42 Basel, Maccarone, Basel, Switzerland
  • Your Cake Is Baked, House of Gaga/Gaga Arts Contemporano, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Just Like Pants, STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo, Norway
  • The Basement of Alamo, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece

2010

  • Part 1: The Offset, Aside, but Alex Hubbard Heads in the Dark, Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • Death Never Sleeps, The Kitchen, New York, US
  • Alex Hubbard, Mercer Union - Centre for Contemporary Visual Art, Toronto, Canada
  • Somebody had to do it, Maccarone Gallery, New York, US

2009

  • Bingo, wait a minute..., Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, US
  • Failed Projects and Ambien Drawings, Studio Miko, New York, US
  • Spaced Yourself, STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo, Norway

2008

  • Alex Hubbard: Last Best Offer, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, US
  • Si, es necesario, House of Gaga/Gaga Arts Contemporano, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Alex Hubbard, STANDARD (OSLO), Art Basel Miami, Miami, US
  • Alex Hubbard, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, US

2007

  • Collapse of the Expanded Field, Castillo/Corrales, Paris, France

2004

  • Alex Hubbard on Speed, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, US

Selected Group Exhibitions

2012

  • Pour une Grammaire du Hasard, Centre d’Art de Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Painting Now, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Painters Painting, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, USA

2011

  • Under Destruction, curated by Chris Sharp and Gianni Jetzer, Swiss Institute, New York, US
  • The Indiscipline of Painting: International Abstraction from the 1960s to Now, Tate St Ives, St. Ives, UK (exh. cat). This exhibition travelled to Mead Gallery, Coventry, UK (2012)
  • The Art of Narration Changes with Time, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
  • After Images, Musée Juif de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
  • Deep Comedy, curated by Dan Graham, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
  • Incidentes de vaije espejo en Yucatan y otros lugares, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Not About Paint, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, US

2010

  • Betwixt & Between, Artspace, New Haven, US
  • Under Destruction, curated by Chris Sharp and Gianni Jetzer, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
  • When do you see yourself in ten years?, STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo, Norway
  • About Us, Johann König, Berlin, Germany
  • How Soon Now, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, US
  • The Big Screen Project, CUE Artists Video, New York, US
  • Barbaric Freedom, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
  • The Purser, Green Naftali, New York, US
  • Declaracion anual de personas morales, House of Gaga/Gaga Arts Contemporano, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Le Faux Miroir, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
  • Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, US
  • At Home/Not at Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, curated by Matthew Higgs, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, US
  • Knight’s Move, Sculpture Center, New York, US
  • The Nice Thing about Castillo/Corrales, Castillo/Corrales, Paris, France
  • He’e nalu, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France
  • Alex Hubbard and Jon Pestoni, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, US
  • Conversazione, Galerie Pianissimo, Milan, Italy
  • The Inhabitants, Vilma Gold, London, UK
  • Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York, US
  • MA, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, US
  • What Were, Sutton Lane, London, UK
  • Dark: A show to winter, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, US
  • Solid State, Bureau, New York, US
  • CUE: Artists’ Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  • The Offset, Aside, But, Kunsthalle Berlin, Germany
  • Group Show, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
  • Au fil de l'oeuvre (Workflow), La Galerie, Contemporary Art Centre in Noisy-le-Sec, Paris, France
  • Video Art: Replay, Part 2. Everyday Imaginare, ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, US

2009

  • Reach of Realism, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Miami, US
  • Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and the Ready-Made Gesture, The Kitchen, New York, US
  • Coming In From the Cold, Galerie DUVE Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • Reflection: A Video Program, Gallery 400, Chicago, US
  • The Audio Show, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, US
  • My Summer Show, Galerie Lelong, New York, US
  • 20 YEARS: We gave a party for the gods and the Gods all came, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, US
  • LEAVE NO TRACE: Ridges, Troughs and Phantom Limbs, International Studio and Curatorial Program, curated by Maggie Clinton, New York, US
  • Skin Jobs, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, US
  • Alex Hubbard, Charlemagne Palestine, Anthony Pearson, and Jon Pestoni, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, US
  • Practice, Practice, Practice, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, US
  • Learn to communicate like a fucking normal person, curated by Anastasia Rogers and Jessie Cohan, Art Production Fund, New York, US
  • Bivouac, VOXPOPULI, Philadelphia, US
  • 008. Collection, nouvelles connexions, FRAC -Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France

2008

  • Organic Geometry, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, US
  • We Have Never Met Before [...], STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo, Norway
  • The Gentle Art of Collapsing the Expanded Field, Galerie Carlos Cardenas, Paris, France
  • Last Best Offer, Tony Wright Gallery, Chicago, US
  • Lift Series, The Kitchen, New York, US
  • Payday, Green Naftali, New York, US
  • Looking Back: The White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York, US
  • Craswell Crags, Lisa Cooley Fine Art, New York, US
  • Single Channel: Recent Video Work, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
  • Alex Hubbard and Oscar Tuazon, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Saint Louis, US
  • Zuordnungsprobleme, Johann König, Berlin, Germany
  • Cinema Zero, The Kitchen, New York, US
  • Distortions of an unendurable reality, Galleria Pianissimo, Milan, Italy
  • Meth Labs: A Lecture, The Ballroom, Marfa, US

2007

  • Sorry Genesis, Green Naftali, New York, US
  • with teeth, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, US
  • Blockbuster Summer, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, US
  • Foam of the Daze, Smith-Stewart, New York, US
  • Fuck Portland, Roxbox, Portland, US
  • Cinema Zero Presents, Collective Unconscious, New York, US

2006

  • Compulsive Jalouse, AIP Art Miami, US. This exhibition travelled to Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
  • Interstellar Low Ways, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, UK
  • Carron, Swiss Institute, New York, US
  • Sound and Performance Night, EFA Gallery, New York, US
  • Take One, Glassell School, Houston, US
  • Meth Labs: Lecture, Whitney Altria, New York, US
  • Everything Beautiful and Noble is the Result of Reason and Calculation, EFA, New York, US
  • Now, More than Ever, Foxy Production, New York, US
  • M*A*S*H New York, The Helena, New York, US

2005

  • Justin Lowe, Printed Matter, New York, US
  • Bathroom Sound Series, Monkey Town, New York, US
  • Greater Brooklyn, CRG Gallery, New York, US
  • The Donut Shop, Disjecta Art Space, Portland, US

2004

  • Hit and Run Video Series, Art in General, New York, US
  • Graphic Designs from the Oregon State Prison, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, US
  • Winter Rising, with Emily Sunblad and Agathe Snow, Participant Gallery, New York, US
  • Terminal 5, Terminal 5 JFK Airport, New York, US

2003

  • Club in the Shadow, Kenny Schachter Contemporary, New York, US
  • Reality/Fiction: (Re) Constructing Representation, Jamaica Center for the Arts, Jamaica, US
  • Dolphinfest, Holocene, Portland, US
  • Comment Rester Zen, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France
  • Plasma, Cosmic Gallery, Paris, France
  • Moph Art Space, Tokyo, Japan

2002

  • You’re Just a Summer Love, but I’ll Remember You…., Priska C. Juschka, Brooklyn, US

2000

  • Regional Arts & Culture Council Portland Building Installation Space, Portland, US

Public Collections

US

  • Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York
  • Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami