b. Rostvo-na-Donu, Russia 1963
Education
1989-1993 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1980-1983 Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Liberation and Disorientation, Hollis Taggert Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Fin de Siécle, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Some Paintings In No Particular Order, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, NY
2016 Unstable Equilibrium, Foster Gallery, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
2015 Unstable Equilibrium, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 Beautiful and Profound Paintings, J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY,
Alex Kanevsky, Scarfone/Hartly Gallery at University of Tampa, FL
2013 The Fox and The Hedgehog, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 Lux Art Institute, San Diego, CA
2011 Heroes and Animals, J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Heroes and Animals, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Proserpine, J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Waves & X-Rays, Rosenfield Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Visitations, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Parlor Games, J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Paintings, Gallerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Canada
2005 Instances of Stillness, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Paintings, J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Photographs, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Short Focus Paintings, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2003 Short Focus Paintings, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Mediated Pleasures, J. Cacciola Galleries, New York, NY
2002 Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001 Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
J. Cacciola Galleries, New York, NY
2000 Overwhelmed Portraiture, Philadelphia Art Alliance
Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1999 Strong Light Paintings, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
1998 Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1997 Motion Paintings, Merrimack College, Andover, MA
Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
1996 Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1995 Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Group Shows
2020 The Food Show, curated by Chantal Lee and Jeffrey Morabito, SFA Projects, New York, NY
2019 Lightning Strikes II, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
What's for Dinner? A Brief History of Food in Art, The Galerie Gmurzynska, New York, NY
An Inherently Hopeful Gesture, curated by Bill Scott, Cerulean Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Innovation and Vitality: 150 Years of Alumni from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Avery Galleries,
Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia, PA
2018 L'etat Des Limbes, Alex Kanevsky and Edwige Fouvry, Galerie Guido Romero Pierni, Paris, France
Painters Who Fucking Know How To Paint, curated by Kate Sweeney and Kate Vrijmoet, Center on Contemporary Art,
Seattle, WA
Lithuania, 12+1, Meno parkas, Kaunas
Disrupted Realism, curated by John Seed, Stanek Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Artist As Subject: 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
A More Perfect Union? Power, Sex, and Race in the Representation of Couples, Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Artist As Subject: 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Uncatchable, Guido Romero Pierini Galerie, Paris, France
More Than Your Selfie, New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA
2015 Lightning Strikes I, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The More The Merrier, curated by Bill Scott Cerulean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Body Politic, curated by Courtney Jordan & Kristin Künc, National Arts Club, New York, NY
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, N.C., The Philadelphia Story
2012 Annual Show, invited guest artist, Royal Society of British Artists, London, U.K.
2011 Accumulations, J. Cacciola, New York, NY
2010 Remnants, Fuse Gallery, New York, NY
Visual Voices, Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University
2009 Fine Artists of Accomplishment, Somerville Manning Gallery
2008 Into Your Head, Hopkinson House Gallery of Contemporary Art, Haddon Township, NJ
Painterly Painting: The Next Level, The Art Museum of Los Gatos, CA
Edwards Art Gallery, Holderness School, Plymouth, N.H.
2007 10 Year Anniversary, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Finding a Form – Influences in Figurative Painting Tower Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
True Love Always, curated by Rebecca Campbell, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Bader Fund, The First Three Years, Brady Art Gallery, G. Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Art 212, New York, NY
2005 Very Early Pictures, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
Figura, Gallerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Canada
2004 Pittura e fotografia dal punto di vista dell’occhio moderno, Castell Welsperg, Italy
Works on Paper 2004, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
Paintings & Photographs (together with Jon Redmond) J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Mostra di Opere in Formato Piccolo, Casa Wassermann, Villabassa, Italy
2001 Form & Figure, J. Cacciola Galleries, New York
1999 The Edge of Vision, The Edge of Sight, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
1998 Pertaining to Philadelphia, Mulligan-Shanoski Gallery, San Fancisco, CA
Through The Heart Of The City, Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
1997 Contemporary Landscape, Berman Museum of Art - Ursinus College, Bucknell University
1994 Double Exposure, curated by Dore Ashton, Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY
Publications
2020 Book Reviews, Harper's Magazine, July
2019 Lightning Strikes II, Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Disrupted Realism, John Seed, Schiffer Publishing
Readings, Harper's Magazine, March
"Landscape Painting Now", Todd Bradway (editor) and Barry Schwabsky (writer), D.A.P. Publishers, NY
2018 "Ends and Beginnings: Dolby Chadwick presents a new solo exhibition for Alex Kanevsky", Rochelle Belsito,
American Art Collector, December
Broken Kingdom (cover), Michelle Bitting, Risk Press
"Alex Kanevsky", Vidas Poskus, Nemunas Magazine, Lithuania
the moth magazine of art and literature Issue 34, Ireland
2017 "The Laws of Motion: In-Studio Interview with Alex Kanevsky", Kim Power, Art Pulse Magazine
the moth magazine of art and literature Issue 28, Ireland
"Caminhos em Poetica Visuais Bidimensionais", Amanda S. Torres Cunha, Editora Intersaberes, Brazil
2016 "Interrupted Images: Discombobulation In Painting Is Definitely A Thing", John Seed, Huffington Post, September
2015 Lightning Strikes - 18 Poets, 18 Artists, Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Alex Kanevsky, Monograph, Peter Selz, Frances Malcolm, and Neil Plotkin, Dolby Chadwick Gallery
"Chamem-lhe pintor, nao artista", Diario de Noticias, Portugal, February 21
La Piqure (book cover), Marie-Christine Horn, L'Age D'Homme, Switzerland
Review, David M. Roth, Squarecylinder, October
Interview, John Seed, Huffington Post, October
2013 "People and Their Bodies - pintura Alex Kanevsky", Egoista, Magazine of Art and Literature, #51, Portugal, December
"Alex Kanevsky", Jacques Desage, Miroir de L’Art, France #45, (article and cover)
"Interior with Meat", Harper’s Magazine, May (cover)
"100 Peintures Contemporaines", Ludovic Duhamel, Miroir de L’Art, France #43
"Alex Kanevsky at Dolby Chadwick Gallery", Allison Malafronte, Fine Art Connoisseur, February
"Alex Kanevsky in residence at Lux Art Institute", James Chute, San Diego Union Tribune, June 9
2012 Alex Kanevsky - Contemporary Painter Series monograph, Tianjin Yangliuqing Fine Arts Press, China
"Alex Kanevsky, Doppio Sogno", Artinmostra, December 4
2011 Corpi Esposti, Catalog essay, Barbara Frigerio Gallery, Ilaria Bignotti, Milan, May
"Alex Kanevsky, Le Hasard Manipulé", Frédéric Charles Baitinger, Artension, France, May/June
"Alex Kanevsky - Dolby Chadwick", Peter Selz, Art in America, January
2010 "Christopher Brown at Berggruen; Kanevsky at Dolby Chadwick", Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle,
October 23
"Polish Rider 2", Subaltern Magazine, Nr1, Sweden (cover)
2009 Cover and inside reproductions, Versal 7, Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Alex Kanevsky – Proserpine", Mario Naves, City Arts, NYC, May
"Alex Kanevsky", Alexandra Bourré, Vernissages Magazine, France, January
Alex Kanevsky, 13 paintings, Guernica Magazine, January
2008 Painterly Painting: The Next Level, Catalog essay, The Art Museum of Los Gatos, Peter Campion
Alla Prima Painting, Al Gury, Watson & Gupil, NY
Synecdoche, NY movie review, Carina Chocano, L.A. Times movie review, September
"Peggy’s House (Readings)", Harper's Magazine, September
La Hermana Falsa, Book cover painting reproduction, David Miklos, Tusquets Editores, Mexico
"Kanevsky in his Stride", Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, May 10
2007 Alex Kanevsky / J.Cacciola Gallery, Valerie Gladstone, Art News, September
"Considering affairs of the heart", Holly Myers, Los Angeles Times, March 9
2005 "Alex Kanevsky's paintings tell a story about how we capture time and truth", Sharon Mizota, San Francisco Weekly
Review, Mario Neves, The New York Observer, May 30
2004 Figura, Catalog of group exhibition, Galleries de Bellefeuille, Tyler Benedict, Montreal, Canada
"Painter takes cues from camera", Victoria Donohoe, Philadelphia Inquirer, March 28
Fox Hunt, Harper’s Magazine, May
2003 T.S. in Her Bath, Harper’s Magazine, November
"Blue Horizon 3", West Branch Magazine (cover), December
"Love Affair with Paint", Catalog essay, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, Robert Flynn Johnson, September
New American Paintings, Number 45, May
Observation of Time and Lived Moments: Paintings of Alex Kanevsky, Catalog essay, Cacciola Gallery, Tom Csaszar 2000 New American Paintings, Number 27 (cover), May
"Raking Light", Edward J. Sozanski, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 26
1999 Review, Catherine Quillman, Philadelphia Inquirer, October 21
Review, Victoria Donohoe, Philadelphia Inquirer, October 17
Review, Joshua Meyer, Art New England, April-May
1998 "Superfly Artists on the Verge – 25 Artists to Watch", Philadelphia Weekly, September 23
"Fast, Smeared and Out of Control", Gerard Brown, Philadelphia Weekly, April 29
"Motion paintings", Ellen Andersen, Haverhill Gazette, January 15
1997 "Ars Longa, and It Keeps Changing", Catalog, Judith E. Stein, Pew Fellowships in the Arts
Review, John Chambless, Philadelphia Inquirer, March 14
1995 "Alex Kanevsky - Rosenfeld Gallery", Tom Csaszar, New Art Examiner, May
Awards
2012 Lux Art Institute, art residency, Encinitas, CA, USA
2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, painting fellowship
2007 Eagle Hill Foundation, Steuben, ME, painting residency
2006 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, painting fellowship
2004 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, painting fellowship
2003 Frantz and Virginia Bader Fund, grant for painting
The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ireland, residency fellowship
New American Paintings, Number 45, May 2003
2002 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, painting fellowship
2000 New American Paintings, Number 27 cover, May 2000
1999 New American Paintings, Open Studio Competition
1997 Pew Fellowship in the Arts, painting fellowship
1994 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, painting fellowship
1993 Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for Painting
1993 Mary Townsend & William Clarke Mason Memorial Prize in Sculpture
1992 William Emlen Cresson Memorial Travel Scholarship
Mabel Wilson Woodrow Memorial Award
Pearson Memorial Prize for Painting
Special Projects and Collections
2017 Schmidt Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Out There, curated together with Michael Gallagher
2013 Philadelphia Sketch Club, Some Drawings, curated together with Bill Scott
2012 Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2011 University of North Carolina, Asheville, Drawing Discourse, judge
2010 Achenbach Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young & Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Woodmere Museum Collection, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Synecdoche, NY, feature film directed by Charlie Kaufman – paintings for the film
2007 Vast Beautiful System, Jenny Jaskey Gallery (Tower), Philadelphia, PA
Teaching
2002–2017 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Adjunct Painting Instructor
2005 Governor’s Institutes on the Arts, Castleton, VT, Visiting artist
2004 Painting and Photography through the Contemporary Eye, Dobbiaco, Italy, Artist in Residence
University of Delaware, Newark, DE, Visiting Artist/ Critic
2001 - 2003 Governor’s Institutes on the Arts, Castleton, VT, Painting Teacher