Alexander Massouras
Presentation
Alexander Massouras (b.1981) is a British artist and writer based in Cambridge, UK.
His work is in UK and international collections including the Ashmolean, the British Museum, the Fitzwilliam, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was a member of the research project “Art School Educated” at Tate, a Leverhulme Fellow at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre.
In March 2024, he is invited by Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou for his first solo exhibition in France.
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Education
2009–13
PhD, London Consortium / Tate (Humanities and Cultural Studies)
2000–04
BA, MA, Cambridge University (First Class, Law / History of Art)
Solo shows (selection)
2024
To come, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France
Other Places, Austin Desmond, London, UK
2023
Apertures, Willoughby Gerrish, London, UK
2019
Not Now, King's College, Cambridge, UK
2015
Under the Sun, Syson Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Machines of Loving Grace, David Krut Projects, New York, USA
2012
‘Present Future' curated section Artissima 19, Turin, Italy
2011
Pulse, prizewinner, Los Angeles, USA
Eighteen Pages, Skylight Projects, New York, USA
Collective exhibitions (selection)
2023
Public Figure: Painting, Drawing and Photography, Austin Desmond, London, UK
2022
Hockney to Himid: 60 Years of British Printmaking, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
2021
Prints and Fairytales with Julian Page, Austin Desmond, London, UK
The Waiting Place, curated by Ann-Marie James and Emily Godden, The Art Station, Saxmundham, UK
2020
The Letchworth Open, curated by Kristian Day, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth, UK
2019
The Cambridge Show, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
Points of Contact, Austin Desmond, London, UK
Abstract v. Figure, curated by Nick Hornby, Pinsent Masons, London, UK
2016
Face Value, curated by Kathleen Soriano, Collyer Bristow, London, UK
2015
Repetition/Variation, Julian Page Fine Art, London, UK
2013
Lucy de Kooning Presents with Aakash Nihalani and Carlos Soto, Pace, New York, USA
87A Lower Marsh, curated by Samia Calbayrac, London, UK
The Collective, curated by Katie Heller, House of St Barnabas, London, UK
Atomic, Transition Gallery, London, UK
2011
Rootstein Hopkins Drawing Prize, Morley College, London, UK
Iconoclasts, Lloyds Club, London, UK
2010
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London (and tour), UK
Make Yourself at Home, 7Eleven Gallery, New York, USA
2009
Northern Print Biennale, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Better History, 7Eleven Gallery, New York, USA
Prizes & Awards
2020 Paul Mellon Centre, Research Continuity Fellowship
2015 - 17 Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University
2014 Paul Mellon Centre, Postdoctoral Fellowship
2013 ING Discerning Eye (winner of London and V&A Purchase prizes)
2011 Pulse Prize (winner)
2011 Rootstein Hopkins Drawing Prize (shortlisted)
2010 Jerwood Drawing Prize (shortlisted)
2010 Gilchrist Fisher Award (shortlisted)
Collections
Art Institute of Chicago
Ashmolean Museum
British Museum
Deste Foundation
Fitzwilliam Museum
London School of Economics
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York Public Library
Rhode Island School of Design
Victoria and Albert Museum
Texts
Selected Bibliography
- Susan Tallman, ‘Alexander Massouras: The Real and the Imaginary', Art in Print vol. 6 no. 3 (September 2016)
- Robert Clark, ‘Exhibitions', The Guardian (15 August 2015)
- Alice Gale-Feeny, ‘Alexander Massouras: Under the Sun', This is Tomorrow (September 2015)
- Under the Sun [solo exhibition catalogue], with essays by John Newling and John-Paul Stonard (Syson Gallery, 2015)
- Gabriel Rolfe, ‘Art as Knowledge?', Times Literary Supplement Blog (19 November 2015)
- Harriet Agnew, ‘Bojo vs Cameron', Financial Times (8 May 2015)
- James Fox, ‘Collector's Corner', Printmaking Today vol. 23 no. 4 (Winter 2014)
- Emily Tobin, ‘Buying Art: Etching', House and Garden (March 2014)
- Erica Cooke, ‘Present Future', Artissima 2012 (exhibition catalogue)
- Rachel Spence, ‘Go Forth and Multiply', Financial Times (13 October 2012)
- Julia Hendrickson, review of Three Moderately Cautionary Tales cycle, Art in Print, 2 (2012)
- Matthew Steeples, ‘What's on Your Mantlepiece?' (interview), The Steeple Times (2012)
- A. Moret, ‘Into the Unknown', Installation, 2 (2012)
- Rachel Spence, ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit', Financial Times (14 October 2011)
- Eighteen Pages [solo exhibition catalogue], with essays by Jon Wood and Nathan Dunne (Skylight Projects, 2011)
- Lyndhurst Way: A Year of Exhibitions (Hannah Barry Gallery, 2007)
- Jackie Wullschlager, ‘Having Fun with Figures', Financial Times (19 May 2007)
Publications
- ‘Basic Design and the Artist-Teacher' in Basic Design [exhibition guide], ed. by Elena Crippa and Beth Williamson (London: Tate Media, 2013)
- ‘The Art of Art Students', in The London Art Schools, ed. by Nigel Llewellyn (London: Tate Publishing, 2015)
- ‘Modernist Ruins and the Temporal Landscape of Jeffrey Rubinoff's Sculpture Park', in The Art of Jeffrey Rubinoff, ed. by James Fox (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2017)
- ‘Art by the Many: The London Style Cults of the 1960s', Conversation Piece, ed. by Thomas Crow, British Art Studies, 7 (2017)
- ‘A Young Contemporary, 1958', ‘Dark Sunlight in Summer, 1963', and ‘The New Millennium, 2000' in The Royal Academy and its Summer Exhibitions (London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2018)
- ‘Notes on Casts' in Florian Roithmayr, Aftercast (Cambridge and London: Tenderbooks and Kettle's Yard, 2018)
- Kate Wakeling/Alexander Massouras, ‘Maiastra', Art in Print vol. 8 no. 4 (November 2018)
- ‘The Originality of the Antique and Other Modernist Myths', in Transantiquity ed. by Guilherme Blanc (exh. cat. Galeria Municipal do Porto, 2019)
- ‘Auerbach's Mimesis' in Frank Auerbach: Drawings of People, ed. Mark Hallett and Catherine Lampert (Yale University Press, 2022)
- ‘From Motion Pictures to Flight' and ‘Young and British' in Richard Smith: Artworks 1954– 2013, ed. Martin Harrison (Estate of Francis Bacon Publishing / Thames & Hudson, 2022)