ALEX ITO
Lives and works in NY, USA
EDUCATION
2013
BFA Sculpture, Double Minor in Cultural Studies and Art History, Pratt Institute, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Half Life, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2019
God Has No Fingernails, Good Enough Gallery, Atlanta, GA
You Promised Catastrophe, Zeller Van Almsick, Vienna, Austria
2017
EXPO Chicago, AALA Gallery booth
2016
NADA Miami, Springsteen, Miami, FL
Act II: Carcass and the White Light, Springsteen Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Act I: The Crucible’s Nest, AALA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Cloud Nine, The Still House Group, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Tales From a Sardine Run, Rod Barton Gallery, London, UK
Think of Me Fondly, Water McBeer Gallery
The Home of Tao Hsiao, Art General, New York, NY
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2017
(O), The Stranger (with Amna Ashgar), Hotel Pavillion, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Bouquet Complex (with Masami Kubo), Kimberly Klark, Queens, NY
2015
The Order of Shadowboxing, (with Greg Ito), Et. AI., San Francisco, CA
After Gruen (with Greg Ito), SADE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Jardin N°19 (with Erika Ceruzzi), Springsteen Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Single Image (with Brendan Lynch), Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Tokyo Gendai, SEIZAN Gallery booth, Tokyo, Japan
Other World/s, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR
Sin Fatigue, Salma Sarriedine, New York, NY
2025
LIFE STUDIES: VINCENT CHONG, AYA FUJIOKA, ALEX ITO, CHARLIE MAI, HOMER SHEW, SEIZAN Gallery, New York
2024
Grit, Zeller Van Almsick, Vienna
2023
Artists Against the Bomb, Judd Foundation, NY
2022
Group Show, Public Access, New York, NY
2021
Recovery, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY
Impatience of the Future, Zeller Van Amsick + Shore Gallery, Vienna
2019
Condo, A + Contemporary, Shanghai, China
2018
Pain is the Minimum, Springsteen (hosted by Galerie Breve for Condo), Mexico City, Mexico
2017
See the Moon?, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Recounting Truths and Prophecies, Driveway 327, Los Angeles, CA
In 3D the basil never wilts, Castor Gallery, New York, NY
Full House, White Columns, New York, NY
2016
Bruise, Et Al. Etc., San Francisco, CA
Return Policy, Howard Street, New York, NY
2015
A Perfect Lie, curated by Domenico de Chirico, Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Brussels, Belgium
Young Americans, curated by Cornelis Van Almsick, Granz Josefs Kai 3, Vienna, Austria
Jerry Bruckheimer Films, curated by Winslow Laroche and Larissa Lockshin, Sensei Gallery,
New York, NY
Data-scent, Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York, NY
I Refuse to Participate In Failure, Spreez, Munich, Germany
NADA NY, Springsteen Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show, 99cent Plus, Brooklyn, NY
Testing Ground: The Still House Group, The Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Service Entrance, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
B(L)RRR, ThreeFourThreeFour, New York, NY
2014
24/7, curated by Alex Bacon and Harrison Tenzer, Monte Carlo, Miami, FL
Two Two One, Regina Rex/ Harbor, New York, NY
When Floods Slit the Hills, Topless, Brooklyn, NY
Palace 88, East Broadway Mall, New York, NY
The Quantified Self, AMO Studios, New York, NY
99cent Plus Inaugural Exhibition, 99cent Plus, Brooklyn, NY
The Still House Group, II Museo Pino Pascali, Italy
2013
Straight II DVD, curated by Isaac Brest and Alex Perweiler, 1632 Pennsylvania Ave. Miami, FL
This is the Story of America: Everybody’s Doing What They Think They’re Supposed To Do, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
Honk if you don’t exist, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, New York
PUBLISHED TEXTS
2023
Ito, Alex. “Rirkrit Tiravanija: A LOT OF PEOPLE” Invites Us to Reimagine Possibility,” The Amp (Asian American Arts Alliance)
2020
Ito, Alex. “6 AAPI Artists Reflect on the Spike in Anti-Asian Violence,” Artsy
2019
Ito, Alex. “Measured Life,” Affidavit
2017
Ito, Alex. “Half-Life: Waste and Romance in a Landscape of Fear,” Silica Magazine
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2018
- Present, Director at Chen’s Brooklyn, NY
2022
Introverse: Allegory Today (co-curated with Howie Chen), 80WSE, New York, NY
2015
Watching Things Burn, Springsteen, Baltimore, MD
2014
Saving Face, The Still House Group, New York, NY
SELECTED PRESS
“6 AAPI Artists Reflect on the Spike in Anti- Asian Violence,” Artsy
“Your Concise New York Art Guide for December 2020,” Hyperallergic
“In The Studio,” Collector’s Agenda
Nam, Yoon. “As Far As We Can Go, Happiness is Always Just Over That Horizon, Burnaway
Six Questions: Alex Ito,” Tique Art Paper
“Alex Ito Interviewed by Nico Jacobsen”, Totokaelo,
“9 Artists to Watch in August,” Artspace
“Half Life: Waste and Romance in a Landscape of Fear,” Silica Magazine
“The Most Outstanding Sculptures of NADA Miami Beach 2016,” Artspace
“Collector and Curator Tiffany Zabludowicz’s Favorite Works From NADA Miami Beach 2016,” Artspace
“Alex Ito “Act II: Carcass and the White Light” at Springsteen, Baltimore,” Mousse Magazine
“Emma Hazen interviews Alex Ito,” OFLUXO
“Alex Ito at AALA reviewed,” AQNB
“Cloud Nine,” AQNB
“Vienna Art Week Reviewed,” Artnet News
“Mark Pieterson in conversation with Alex Ito,” OFLUXO
“Young Americans: Alex Ito about real and virtual spaces and their backgrounds,” Vienna Art Week
“The Order of Shadowboxing,” AQNB
“The Order of Shadowboxing,” San Francisco Chronicle
“Watching Things Burn at Springsteen,” Post Office Arts Journal
“Munich is also art,” i-D Vice
“Artists of the Week,” LVL3 Media
“New Show featuring Erika Ceruzzi and Alex Ito explores Springsteen’s otherworldly space,” City Paper
“The Exhibition Room: Palace 88,” Cura. No. 17
“SFAQ PICKS: Single Image,” San Francisco Arts Quarterly (SFAQ)
“The Still House Group Identifies What Art Fairs Do Best,” Artsy
“Honk if you don’t exist,” Art Observed
“SFAQ PICKS: Victory,” San Francisco Arts Quarterly (SFAQ)
EXHIBITIONS
LIFE STUDIES:
VINCENT CHONG, AYA FUJIOKA, ALEX ITO, CHARLIE MAI, HOMER SHEW