Residence: Los Angeles, California
Solo Exhibitions
2018 “Geometric Generation”, Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver BC
2018 “Chevrons”, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 “Collaboration”, Coagula Curatorial, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA
2017 “In Pono”, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2017 “Long Play”, Scape Gallery, Corona del Mar, CA
2016 “Left at 69’s”, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
2016 “Geometrie de Luce”, Artesilva, Mila, Italy
2016 “what we do is secret”, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 New Paintings, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York City, NY
2016 New Paintings, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2016 New Paintings, Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, Idaho
2016 New Paintings, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 Byways, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA
2015 Revisited, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2014 California, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2014 Inform / form, Launch gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Swell, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2013 Cross Current, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 Paintings, Jennifer Kostuik, Vancouver, BC
2012 Alex Couwenberg and Karl Benjamin: Influence, Divergence, & the Evolution of an Idea, William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Trajectory, David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2011 New Paintings, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2011 New Paintings, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2011 New Paintings, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 Over the Years, Metro Gallery, Pomona, CA
2010 New Paintings, Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
2009 A Bit Left of All Right, William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Singles, Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID
2009 Arcade, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2009 Morphic Traces, San Luis Obispo Art Center, San Luis Obispo, CA
2009 Waimea, Royale Projects, Indian Wells, CA
2008 Working Space, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2008 Bypassing Referents, Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
2007 Cosmetically, Aesthetically, Unregrettably, d.e.n. Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2007 New Paintings, Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID
2007 New Paintings, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2006 New Paintings, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2006 Black Labeled, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Alex Couwenberg: a ten year evolution, University Gallery, CSUS, Turlock, CA
2005 de Stad, Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
2005 Metropolitan, 455 Market Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 tussenruimte, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Primo, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Paintings, Gensler, San Francisco, CA
2003 Alexander Couwenberg; a seven year survey, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2002 New Paintings, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 New Paintings, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 New Paintings, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997 The Hot Rod Series, East Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
1996 New Paintings, Dillingham/Caples Gallery, Claremont, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 Construct, Kosuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2016 Art Changes Things, Donkey Mill Art Center, Holualoa, HI
2016 Collection: Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
2016 Forethought, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
2016 New Masters Versus Modern Artists, Heitsch Galerie, Munich, Germany
2016 Diosyncratic Fileds, Ease Hawaii Cultural Center, Hilo, HI
2016 20 Years Kostuik Gallery, Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2015 LA | SF, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 New Abstraction, Lyons, Wier Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Artist of the film MANA, Villa di Donato, Napoli , Italy
2014 Shift – five decades of Contemporary California Painting, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
2014 Celebrating The Spirit of Summer, Lancaster MOAH, Lancaster, CA
2014 LA Abstract, Red Pipe Gallery, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Mas Attack 2, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2013 Mama, Gallery MELD, Kailua-Kona, HI
2011 The Gleam in the Young Bastards Eye, William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Tel-Art-Phone, Beacon Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
2011 A Generous Spirit, Robert and Francis Fullerton Museum of Art, CSUSB, CA
2010 Karl Benjamin: Under the Influence, Royal Projects, Indiana Wells, CA
2010 Over Paper, Bruno Davis Gallery, St. Louie, MO
2010 Line, Curve, Form, David Richards Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Claremont Modernism, OBJCT Gallery, Claremont, CA
2010 WHAT, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Enduring Legacy, Claremont Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
2009 West/East, Royale Projects, Indian Wells, CA
2009 Rant, Design Loves Art, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA
2009 Art Auction, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2009 Los Angeles Currents, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Summer Group Show, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2009 ONA 2X2, Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA
2008 Liquid Light, Museum of Design Art and Architecture, Culver City, CA
2008 Between the Lines, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2008 15 Years, 15 Artists, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2008 Art Auction, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2008 The Finish Fetish, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
2008 Keeping It Straight, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2008 Works on Paper, Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID
2007 West Coast Abstraction, Peter Blake Galley, Laguna Beach, CA
2007 Liquid Light, dba256 Gallery, Pomona, CA
2007 Off the Grid, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007 Paintings Edge, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2007 Inland Emperors, dba256 Gallery, Pomona, CA
2007 Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2007 Inaugural Exhibition, Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID
2007 Summer Group Show, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2007 Art Auction 12, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2007 Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA
2007 Decade, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Out of Line, Cal State Stanislaus, University Gallery, Turlock, CA
2007 Grey Scale, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2007 Art Auction = Stimulus, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2007 Let There Be Light, Phantom Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Aligning With Abstract Los Angeles, d.e.n. Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Landscape Perspectives, Art + Industry, Palm Springs, CA
2006 Summer Abstraction, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2006 Monotype, d.e.n. Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2006 2nd Gwang Hwa Moon International Arts Festival, Sejong Center, Seoul, Korea
2006 Flow: Fine Lines on Water, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2006 Flow: Fine Lines on Water, Lisa Coscino Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA
2006 Recent Acquisitions, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2006 Border Crossing, Sopa Fine Arts, British Columbia, Canada
2006 Out of Line, Parks Exhibition Center, Idyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild, CA
2005 Inaugural Exhibition, Sopa Fine Arts, British Columbia, Canada
2005 A Common Thread, Soho Myriad, Atlanta, GA
2005 Out of Line, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2005 Out of Line, Brandstater Gallery, La Sierra University, Riverside, CA
2005 Abstract Los Angeles, Louisiana Tech University Galleries, Ruston, LA
2005 Art Auction 11, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2005 Theories: LA Paint, Post, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA
2005 Monothon, 2005, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2004 Luster, Gensler, San Francisco, CA
2004 Abstract Work from the Permanent Collection, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2004 Continental Divide: LA/NYC, Planet Thailand, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Abstract Los Angeles, Soho Myriad, Atlanta, GA
2004 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 No Chaser; Straight Ahead Abstract Painting, Post, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Group Show, Dolby/Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Black and White, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 New Paintings, Soho Myriad, Atlanta, GA Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA
2003 Art Auction 10, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2002 California Dream, Il Museo I Magli di Sarezzo, Brescia, Italy
2002 Summer Group Show,Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Sam Maloof and Friends, dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA
2001 New American Paintings Group Show, OSP Gallery/Open Studio Press, Boston, MA
2001 Homage: Roland Reiss, Claremont Graduate School alumni show, dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA 2001Art Auction 9, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2001 Monothon, 2001, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA S
2001 Sequence, Mt. San Antonio College Art Gallery, Walnut, CA
2000 Art 2000: Applauding Revolutionary Talent, Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, CA
1999 Faculty Exhibition, Mt. San Antonio College Art Gallery, Walnut, CA
1999 Faculty Exhibition, Chaffey College, Ontario Museum of Art, Ontario, CA
1998 Six Gallery Artist, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Synchronicity, Mt. San Antonio College Art Gallery, Walnut, CA
1998 Contemporary Works of the Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Antelope Valley College, Lancaster, CA
1997 Convergent Abstraction, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997 L.A. Emerging, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1997 Art Auction 6, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1997 3 Weeks in L.A., Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Recent Paintings, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1997 Fringe of the Fringe, dA Gallery Benefit Art Auction, dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA
1996 42.2 – CGS to Paradiso, Gallery Paradiso, Newport Beach, CA
1996 Painting and Sculpture, Art Center Alumni Show, Thousand Oaks Municipal Art Gallery, Thousand Oaks, CA
1995 Raw Data, East Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
1994 Recent Work, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA Youth Culture, Lava Room, Costa Mesa, CA
Awards
2007 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant
Selected Public Collections
– Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA
– California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, CA
– Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
– Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
– Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
– Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, GA
– Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
– Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
– Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
– Pitzer College Museum Collection, Claremont, CA
– Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
– Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
– Robert and Francis Fullerton Museum of Art, California State Museum, Sa Bernardino, CA
– University of La Verne, La Verne, CA
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2018 Gary Brewer, “The Language of Style”, Art and Cake, September 2018
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2017 Liz Goldner, “Alex Couwenberg At SCAPE”, Art and Cake, November 2017
2017 Jennifer Fernandex, “Warm Modernism”, Architectural Degest, April 2017
2016 Shana Nys Dambrot, “In The Next Dimension”
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2013 Roth, David, “Alex Couwenberg at Andrea Schwartz, “Square Cylinder”, December 2013
2013 Senn, David, “Crosscurrents”. Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, 2013
2013 Lucas-Zenk, Carolyn, West Hawaii Today, July 2013
2012 Frank, Peter, Huffington Post, January 2012
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2011 Carasso, Roberta, Coast Magazine, “Colors, Shapes, and Light, October 2011
2011 Walsh, Daniella, Riviera Magazine, Spring 2011
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2008 Harris, Freddie, Sun Valley Magazine, “Gallery Openings,” Winter 2008
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2008 Gay, Malcolm, Riverfront Times, “St. Louis Art Capsules,” May 20, 2008
2008 Grossman, Emily, Art and Living, “The Straight Take”, March 20, 2008
2008 The New York Sun, “Brother Culture” January 25, 2008
2008 Biller, Steven, Palm Springs Life, “Critics Pick,” January, 2008
2008 Davies, Stacy, IE Weekly, “Everything Old Is New Again,” January 17, 2008
2007 Myers, Holly, Los Angeles Times, “Like 50’s lounge music, remixed,” August 17, 2007
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2007 Bossick, Karen, Wood River Journal, “Buzzer, Gilman Contemporary”, August 1, 2007
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2007 Frank, Peter, LA Weekly, “Grids Unlocked,” Art Pick of the Week, June 6, 2007
2007 Jit Fong Chin, SqueezeOC, “Grey Matters”, January, 2007
2007 Walsh, Daniella, Orange County Register, “Shades of Gray”, January 14, 2007
2007 Carasso, Roberta, Laguna News Post, “Artwaves” January 4, 2007
2007 Walsh, Daniella, Riviera Magazine, “The Radar Art” January, 2007
2007 Rupe, Cynthia, SqueezeOC, Picks of the Week, January 4, 2007
2007 Mckenna, John Page, Palm Springs Life, Winter/Spring 2007
2006 Melrod, George, Art Ltd., “Culver City: Chelsea West?” October, 2006
2006 Cripps, Mick, Lifescapes, “Artist Profile,” September, 2006
2006 Allen, Bobbie, Coastline Pilot, “Seven Abstractionists for summer,” July 6, 2006
2005 Frank, Peter, LA Weekly, “Art Pick of the Week,” October 2005
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2001 Frank, Peter, LA Weekly, “Art pick of the week,” January, 2001
2000 Johnstone, Mark, ART 2000: Applauding Revolutionary Talent, Millard Sheets Gallery Catalog
Visiting Artist / Lecturer
• Donkey Mill Art Center, Holualoa, HI
• Summer Arts, California State University Monterey, Monterey, CA
• Modernism Week 2009, The Krisel House, Palm Springs, CA
• Paintings Edge, Idyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild, CA Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
• Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA California
• State University Stanislaus, Turlock, CA Idyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild, CA Millard Sheets Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA