
Alex Israel’s “Noir” to Debut at Gagosian Beverly Hills this week.
6 January 2025 • Mark Westall
Noir is Alex Israel’s first gallery exhibition in his hometown in nearly a decade.
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).
6 January 2025 • Mark Westall
Noir is Alex Israel’s first gallery exhibition in his hometown in nearly a decade.
28 June 2024 • James Marshall
After visiting the show and interviewing the artist, I was left confused as to why Alex Israel remains the subject of so much… Read More
21 May 2024 • Mark Westall
Alex Israel to exhibit new interactive AI-powered work at Gagosian- Gagosian is to present Alex Israel’s seven-channel interactive AI-powered video… Read More
26 April 2023 • Mark Westall
Gagosian has announced “Fins,” the upcoming exhibition of new works by contemporary artist Alex Israel. The exhibition will feature a… Read More
26 September 2022 • Mark Westall
Alex Israel’s solo exhibition ‘Cut-Outs’ has just opened at Carl Kostyál Stockholm the Los Angeles artist’s second solo with the gallery.
1 December 2021 • Mark Westall
Alex Israel x Snapchat have an exhibition at The Bass Museum of works that use Snap’s augmented reality (AR) technology to bring Alex Israel’s Self-Portraits to… Read More
12 November 2020 • Mark Westall
Ice and Fire is viewable online through an exhibition website designed by Wade Guyton, Jacqueline Humphries, Jon Lucas, and Eric Wrenn: 512w19.thekitchen.org.
20 August 2020 • Alexandra Zirinis
Fifteen contemporary artists and activists have come together in conjunction with eBay, and three youth-led organizations– RISE, Woke Vote, and Mijente, with a genius campaign to get out the USA vote.
7 August 2020 • Mark Westall
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) has released a limited-production of artist-designed face masks in response to the COVID-19 safety and health guidelines.
17 June 2020 • Mark Westall
Opening Thursday 18th June, and curated by Lawrence Van Hagen, WHAT’S UP TWENTY TWENTY is an exhibition and art sale for our time, one that challenges the physical exhibition space as we know it and releases viewers from the confines of one gallery in one location.
13 January 2020 • Mark Westall
Always On My Mind is an exhibition of new Self-Portraits by Alex Israel. This is his first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom.
19 June 2019 • Mark Westall
Alex Israel x Snapchat is a unique collaboration between the Los Angeles-born artist and Snap. Invited to work with Snap’s advanced augmented reality (AR) team to expand upon his multi-disciplinary practice
17 June 2019 • Mark Westall
For its seventh summer exhibition, MAMO Arts Centre, located on the rooftop of Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse in Marseille, has invited Los Angeles-based artist Alex Israel to create site-specific works.
31 October 2016 • Staff
Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 focuses on the ways in which artists have dismantled and reassembled the conventions of cinema—screen, projection, darkness—to create new experiences of the moving image. The exhibition will fill the Whitney Museum’s 18,000-square-foot fifth-floor galleries, and will include a film series in the third-floor theatre.
3 May 2016 • Staff
Artist Alex Israel and writer Bret Easton Ellis merged their personal and professional explorations of their native Los Angeles for an exhibit at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills as part of its annual Oscar show program.
11 February 2016 • Mark Westall
Bret Easton Ellis and artist Alex Israel have merged to produce paintings together