Alexander Massouras
Présentation
Alexander Massouras (né en 1981) est un artiste et écrivain britannique basé à Cambridge, au Royaume-Uni. Ses œuvres font partie de collections britanniques et internationales, notamment l'Ashmolean, le British Museum, le Fitzwilliam et le Metropolitan Museum of Art. Il a été membre du projet de recherche "Art School Educated" à la Tate, à la bourse de recherche Leverhulme à la Ruskin School of Art, Université d'Oxford et à la bourse postdoctorale au Paul Mellon Centre.
En mars 2024, il est invité par la Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou pour une première exposition personnelle en France.
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Education
2009–13
Doctorat, London Consortium / Tate (Siences humaines et Cultural Studies)
2000–04
BA, MA, Université de Cambridge (First Class, Droit / Histoire de l'art)
Expositions personnelles (sélection)
2024
A venir, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France
Other Places, Austin Desmond, Londres, Royaume-Uni
2023
Apertures, Willoughby Gerrish, Londres, Royaume-Uni
2019
Not Now, King's College, Cambridge, Royaume-Uni
2015
Under the Sun, Syson Gallery, Nottingham, Royaume-Uni
Machines of Loving Grace, David Krut Projects, New York, Etats-Unis
2012
‘Present Future' curated section Artissima 19, Turin, Italie
2011
Pulse, prizewinner, Los Angeles, Etats-Unis
Eighteen Pages, Skylight Projects, New York, Etats-Unis
Expositions collectives (sélection)
2023
Public Figure: Painting, Drawing and Photography, Austin Desmond, Londres, Royaume-Uni
2022
Hockney to Himid: 60 Years of British Printmaking, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, Royaume-Uni
2021
Prints and Fairytales avec Julian Page, Austin Desmond, Londres, Royaume-Uni
The Waiting Place, Commissaires Ann-Marie James et Emily Godden, The Art Station, Saxmundham, Royaume-Uni
2020
The Letchworth Open, Commissaire Kristian Day, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth, Royaume- Uni
2019
The Cambridge Show, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Royaume-Uni
Points of Contact, Austin Desmond, Londres, Royaume-Uni
Abstract v. Figure, Commissaire Nick Hornby, Pinsent Masons, Londres, Royaume-Uni
2016
Face Value, Commissaire Kathleen Soriano, Collyer Bristow, Londres, Royaume-Uni
2015
Repetition/Variation, Julian Page Fine Art, Londres, Royaume-Uni
2013
Lucy de Kooning Presents avec Aakash Nihalani et Carlos Soto, Pace, New York, Etats-Unis
87A Lower Marsh, curated by Samia Calbayrac, Londres, Royaume-Uni
The Collective, curated by Katie Heller, House of St Barnabas Londres, Royaume-Uni Atomic, Transition Gallery, Londres, Royaume-Uni
2011
Rootstein Hopkins Drawing Prize, Morley College, Londres, Royaume-Uni
Iconoclasts, Lloyds Club, Londres, Royaume-Uni
2010
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, Londres, Royaume-Uni
Make Yourself at Home, 7Eleven Gallery, New York, Etats-Unis
2009
Northern Print Biennale, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, Royaume-Uni
Better History, 7Eleven Gallery, New York, Etats-Unis
Prix
2020 Paul Mellon Centre, Research Continuity Fellowship
2015 - 17 Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Ruskin School of Art, Université d'Oxford 2014 Paul Mellon Centre, bourse postdoctorale
2013 ING Discerning Eye (Lauréat du Prix of Londres et V&A Purchase)
2011 Prix Pulse (Lauréat)
2011 Prix de dessin Rootstein Hopkins (présélectionné)
2010 Prix de dessin Jerwood (présélectionné)
2010 Prix Gilchrist Fisher (présélectionné)
Textes
Bibliographie (sélection)
- 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)