Biography

Appropriated texts, fragmented information graphics and medieval woodcuts form a dense image ecology in Alex Carver’s work. The paintings are populated with mesmerizing braille-like meshes, functioning sometimes as diagrams, spatial coordinates, or appearing like raised wounds over the surface of the skin. Carver’s application of techniques such as frottage produce multilayered and kaleidoscopic compositions.

 

ALEX CARVER (b. 1984) lives and works in Boise. Carver is a graduate of Cooper Union, New York and received his Masters of Fine Arts from Columbia University, New York. Alex Carver’s work has been exhibited and screened in international venues and in festivals including White Cube, Seoul (2025, solo); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2024, solo); Blue Galleries, Boise State University (2023, duo); Stavanger Art Museum, Norway (2023); Nahmad Contemporary, New York (2023); Lyles & King, New York (2023); Art Basel Parcours (2023, solo); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2023); Stavanger Art Museum (2023); Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2022, solo); Nahmad Contemporary, New York (2022); the Art Encounters Biennial, Romania (2021); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2021, solo); Helena Anrather, New York (2021); Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2019, solo); Tate Modern, London (2018); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2018, solo); art berlin, Berlin (2017, solo); Lincoln Center, New York (2016); Berlinale, Berlin (2015); Biennale of Moving Image, Geneva (2014); Melbourne International Film Festival (2014); BAM, New York (2014); Locarno International Film Festival, Locarno (2013); Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver (2013).

 

 

Alex Carver’s work is in the collections of:

 

Pinault Collection, Paris

Stavanger Art Museum

Ringier Collection, Zurich

Kistefos Museum, Norway

Langen Foundation, Neuss

GOME Art Foundation, Hong Kong

Works
  • Graft Harvest (Canto I)
    Graft Harvest (Canto I)
  • Graft Meshing (Canto XXXIV)
    Graft Meshing (Canto XXXIV)
  • Graft Meshing (verso detail)
    Graft Meshing (verso detail)
  • The Patient is Positioned and Draped (verso)
    The Patient is Positioned and Draped (verso)
  • Flaying Knife I (Human)
    Flaying Knife I (Human)
  • Imbibition (graft passively absorbs oxygen from the wound site)
    Imbibition (graft passively absorbs oxygen from the wound site)
  • Phases of the Skin Graft Take (epithelialization)
    Phases of the Skin Graft Take (epithelialization)
  • The Skin Bridges (donor site)
    The Skin Bridges (donor site)
  • Cave Canem!
    Cave Canem!
  • Operating Theater
    Operating Theater
  • A branch impaling a leg stripped of its flesh
    A branch impaling a leg stripped of its flesh
  • Functionalization of plant tissues for human cell expansion
    Functionalization of plant tissues for human cell expansion
  • I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace.
    I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace.
  • Skin Graft Preparation Device
    Skin Graft Preparation Device
  • The Pagan Machine
    The Pagan Machine
  • Surgical Console
    Surgical Console
  • Abstract, Dwelling Complex
    Abstract, Dwelling Complex
  • Blueprint I
    Blueprint I
  • Bubble Revision (for Barry Diller)
    Bubble Revision (for Barry Diller)
  • Modular Steel Cells II
    Modular Steel Cells II
  • Sludge Digester
    Sludge Digester
  • ALC:M 18-13:U_s
    Towards a Sustainable Eco-friendly Prison
  • 12.09.17_2428
    Athletic Painting Support XIII
  • 11.01.18_2848_medium
    The Fate of Three Homosexuals
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