Alex Hubbard

Born 1975, in Toledo, Oregon, USA

Lives and works in LA, USA

Education

1994–1996 Lewis and Clark College, Portland, USA



1997–1999 B.F.A. Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, USA


2002–2003 Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program, New York, USA



Selected solo exhibitions

2022

"Staircase Descending A Nude", Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich

2019

"The Corner of the Table", Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Projectors", Gaga & Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

2018

"Private Lives", Galerie Neu, Berlin

2017

"Chemical Compulsion", Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
"Homemade Readymades", Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens

2016

"El Cafecito", House of Gaga, Mexico City, MX
"Like a virgin, touched for the thirty-first time", STANDARD (Oslo), Oslo, Norway

2015

"Basic Perversions", Maccarone, Los Angeles
"EAT YOUR FRIENDS", Cranford Arts Collection, London, United Kingdom

2014

"Urethane Paintings", Galerie Eva Pressenhuber, Zurich
"Rose video 04: Hubbard", Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA, USA
"Alex Hubbard", Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany

2013

"Dirty Harry 1 2 3", STANDARD (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
"Magical Ramón and The Five Bar Blues", Maccarone Gallery, New York, USA

2012

"Bent Paintings (Why horses paint)", Galerie Eva Pressenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland
"Eat Your Friends", Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
"Hammer Projects: Alex Hubbard", Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

2011

"The Basement of the Alamo”, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece
"Your Cake is Baked", Gaga Arte Contemporaneo, Col Roma, Mexico
"Just Like Pants", STANDARD (Oslo), Oslo, Norway

2010

"Somebody had to do it", Maccarone Gallery, New York, USA
"Death Never Sleeps", The Kitchen, New York, USA
"Alex Hubbard", Mercer Union - Centre for Contemporary Visual Art, Toronto, Mexico

2009

"Bingo, wait a minute...", Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, USA
"Spaced yourself", STANDARD (Oslo), Oslo, Norway

2008

"The Way Things Go Wrong, Flicker Out, and Quit, Art Positions (under the auspices of STANDARD (Oslo), Oslo, Norway), Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, USA
"Last Best Offer", Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, USA
"Alex Hubbard", House of Gaga / Gaga Arte Contemporano, Mexico City, Mexico
"Alex Hubbard and Oscar Tuazon", St Louis Museum of Contemporary Art, St Louis, USA
"Alex Hubbard", Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA

2007

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

2004

"Alex Hubbard On Speed", Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, USA

Selected group exhibitions

2019

“Into Form: Selections from the Rose Collection, 1957 – 2018,” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
"Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection", Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2018

“Modes d’emploi,” FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France
“Mad World,” Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
“6 Artists”, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
“Jeff Elrod, Alex Hubbard, Yang Shu,” Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong, China
“Smooth Transitions,” Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
“For Good,” GOODROOM, Munich, Germany

2017

"Social Surfaces", Artists Space, New York, NY
"Man in the Mirror", Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
"MIDTOWN", Lever House, New York, NY

2016

"Single-Channel Catalyst: Alex Hubbard’s ‘Eat Your Friends’ and Selections from the Collection",
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
"Early Winter", Campoli Presti, Paris, France
"Real Fine Arts Presents", Real Fine Arts, New York
"In the Making", Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, NY
"Still/Moving: Photographs and Video Art form the DeWoody Collection", Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
"Staged", Sam Francis Gallery Cross Roads School, Los Angeles, CA

2015

"America is hard to see", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Man in the Mirror", Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium

2014

"The Motorman", Richard Telles Fine At, Los Angeles, USA
"Man in the Mirror", Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
"L'Almanach 14", Le Consortium, Dijon, France
"Past, Present, Future", Galerie Neu, Berlin, Berlin Germany

2013

"6 Artists", Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece
"Standard Escape Routes", STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo, Norway
"Chat Jet", Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria
"Claire Fontaine, Alex Hubbard, Nick Mauss, Cerith Wyn Evans", Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany

2012

"Painting... EXPANDED", espacio 1414, Santurce, Puerto Rico
"Pour une grammaire du hasard", Fri Art, Fribourg, Switzerland

2011

"Sculpture Now", Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland
"Printemps de Septembre" (curated by Anne Pontégnie), Toulouse, France

"The Confdence-Man", Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany

"Under Destruction", Curated by Chris Sharp and Gianni Jetzer, Swiss Institute, New York
"US
Deep Comedy", Curated by Dan Graham, Le Consortium, Dijon
Not About Paint, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, US
"The Art of Narration Changes with Time", Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany

"After Images", Musée Juif de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium

2010

"When do you see yourself in ten years?" (curated by Eivind Furnesvik), STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo, Norway
Whitney Biennial (curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari), Whitney Museum, New York, USA

"Greater New York 2010", Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

"Knight's Move", Sculpture Center, New York, USA

2009

"The Reach of Realism", curated by Ruba Katrib, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, USA
"Besides, With, Against, And Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture", curated by Debra Singer, The Kitchen, New York, USA

"My Summer Show: Works by Richard Aldrich, Markus Amm, John Bock, Josh Brand, Alex Hubbard, Sergej Jensen, Michael Krebber, Daniel Lefcourt, SimonDybbroe Møller, Jenny Monick, Manfred Pernice, Josh Smith, Matt Sheridan Smith", Galerie Lelong, New York, USA

"Alex Hubbard, Charlemagne Palestine, Anthony Pearson, and Jon Pestoni", China Art Objects, Los Angeles, USA
"The Audio Show", organized by Seth Kelly, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
"Skin Jobs", curated by Chris Dorland, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA

"20 Years Anniversay Exhibition", Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA
"Nothingness and Being", The Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
"Learn How To Communicate Like a Fucking Normal Person", curated by Anastasia Rogers and
Jessie Cohan, Art Production Fund, New York, USA

"008. Collection, nouvelles connexions", FRAC - Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France
"Bivouac", VOXPOPULI, Philadelphia, USA

2008

"The White Columns Annual", White Columns, New York, USA
"We have never met before, but it's with great anticipation of your understanding that I'm writing
you and I hope you will in good faith give a deep consideration to my proposal below", STANDARD (Oslo), Oslo, Norway

"The Gentle Art of Collapsing the Expanded Field", L'atelier Cardenas Bellanger, Paris
"Craswell Crags", Lisa Cooley, New York, USA

"Payday", Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA

"Single Channel", Galerie Thomas Schülte, Berlin, Germany

"Zuordningsprobleme", Johann König, Berlin, Germany

"Cinema Zero", The Kitchen, New York, USA 

"Distortion of an Unendurable Reality", Galleria Pianissimo, Milan, Italy

"Meth Labs, A Lecture, The Ballroom", Marfa, USA



2007



"Sorry Genesis", Greene Naftali, New York, USA

"Blockbuster Summer", Taxter & Spengemann, New York/NY, USA

"with teeth", Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York/NY, USA

"Foam of the Daze", Smith-Stewart, New York/NY, USA

"Fuck Portland", Roxbox, Portland, USA

"Cinema Zero Presents", Collective Unconscious, New York/NY, USA



2006



"Compulsive Jalouse", AIP Art, Miami / Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

"Interstellar Low Ways", Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, USA

"Carron", Swiss Institute, New York, USA

"Sound and Performance Night", EFA Gallery, New York, USA

"Take One", Glassell School, Houston, USA

"Meth Labs - A Lecture", Whitney Altria, New York, USA

"Everything Beautiful and Noble is the Result of Reason and Calculation", EFA, New York, USA

"Now More than Ever", Foxy Productions, New York, USA



2005



"Justin Lowe", Printed Matter, New York, USA

"Bathroom Sound Series", Monkey Town, New York/NY, USA

"Greater Brooklyn", CRG Gallery, New York, USA

"The Donut Shop", Disjecta Art Space, Portland, USA



2004



"Hit and Run Video Series", Art in General, New York, USA

"Graphic Designs From the Oregon State Prison", Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, USA

"Winter Rising", with Emily Sundblad and Agathe Snow, Participant Gallery, New York, USA

"Terminal Five", Terminal Five J.F.K. Airport, New York, USA



2003



"Club in the Shadow", Kenny Schachter Contemporary, New York, USA

"Reality / Fiction", Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, New York, USA

"Dolphinfest", Holocene, Portland, USA

"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, USA



2000


The Regional Arts & Culture Council Portland Building Installation Space, Portland, USA

Public Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York
FRAC - Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême
Jumex Foundation, Mexico City
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle