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Education:
2013, Pratt Institute, BFA Sculpture, Double Minor in Cultural Studies and Art History

Solo Exhibitions and Two Person Exhibition:

2020
Half Life (solo), Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2019
God Has No Fingernails (solo), Good Enough Gallery, Atlanta, GA
You Promised Catastrophe (solo), Zeller Van Almsick (solo), Vienna, Austria

2017
EXPO Chicago (solo), AALA Gallery
(O), The Stranger (with Amna Ashgar), Hotel Pavilion, Brooklyn, NY

2016
NADA Miami (solo), Springsteen, Miami, FL
Act II: Carcass and the White Light (solo), Springsteen Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Act I: The Crucible's Nest (solo), AALA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Bouquet Complex (with Masami Kubo), Kimberly Klark, Queens, NY

2015
Cloud Nine , The Still House Group, Brooklyn, NY
The Order of Shadowboxing (with Greg Ito), Et. Al. , San Francisco, CA
After Gruen, SADE Gallery (with Greg Ito), Los Angeles, CA,

2014,
Jardin N°19 (with Erika Ceruzzi), Springsteen Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Tales From a Sardine Run , Rod Barton Gallery, London, UK
Think of Me Fondly, Water McBeer Gallery
The Home of Tao Hsiao, Art in General, New York,NY
Single Image (with Brendan Lynch), Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

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 Almsick + Shore Gallery, Vienna

2019
Condo, A+ Contemporary, Shanghai 

2018
Pain is the Minimum, Springsteen (hosted by Galerie Breve for Condo), Mexico City

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
Young Americans (curated by Cornelis van Almsick), Franz Josefs Kai 3, Vienna
Jerry Bruckheimer Films, curated by Winslow Laroche and Larissa Lockshin, Sensei Gallery, New York
Data-scent, Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York, NY
I Refuse to Participate In Failure, Spreez, Munich
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, Il 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, “Rirkrit Tiravanija: A LOT OF PEOPLE” Invites Us to Reimagine Possibility, The Amp (Asian American Arts Alliance)
2020, 6 AAPI Artists Reflect on the Spike in Anti-Asian Violence, Artsy
2019, Measured Life, Affidavit
2017, 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
As Far As We Can Go, Happiness Is Always Just Over That Horizon, Burnaway by Yoon Nam
Tique Art Paper, Six Questions: Alex Ito
Totokaelo, Alex Ito interviewed by Nico Jacobsen
Artspace, 9 Artists to Watch in August
Silica Magazine, Half Life: Waste and Romance in a Landscape of Fear
Artspace, The 10 Most Outstanding Sculptures of NADA Miami Beach 2016
Artspace, Collector and Curator Tiffany Zabludowicz's Favorite Works From NADA Miami Beach 2016
Mousse Magazine, Alex Ito “Act II: Carcass and the White Light” at Springsteen, Baltimore
OFLUXO, Emma Hazen interviews Alex Ito
AQNB, Alex Ito at AALA reviewed
AQNB, Cloud Nine
Artnet News, Vienna Art Week Reviewed
OFluxo, Mark Pieterson in conversation with Alex Ito
Vienna Art Week, Young Americans: Alex Ito about real and virtual spaces and their backgrounds
AQNB, The Order of Shadowboxing
San Francisco Chronicle, The Order of Shadowboxing
Post Office Arts Journal, Watching Things Burn at Springsteen
i-D Vice, Munich is also art
LVL3 Media, Artist of the Week
City Paper, New Show featuring Erika Ceruzzi and Alex Ito explores Springsteen's otherworldly space
Cura. No. 17, The Exhibition Room: Palace 88
San Francisco Arts Quarterly (SFAQ), SFAQ PICKS: Single Image
Artsy, The Still House Group Identifies What Art Fairs Do Best
Art Observed, honk if you don't exist
San Francisco Arts Quarterly (SFAQ), SFAQ PICKS: Victory