Alex Puz (b. 1989, Long Beach, CA)
Education
2022 MFA Painting/Printmaking Yale School of Art
2014 BFA Studio Art Hunter College
Solo Exhibitions
2021 And It Follows, Jennifer Terzian Gallery, Litchfield, CT
2017 Void Set Beach, Studio Show, Silks Building, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Vibrant Matters curated by Melanie Kress, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, New York, NY
Yale MFA Thesis: Vibrant Matters curated by Melanie Kress and Rachelle Dang, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
Friends in Bricolage curated by Matt Smoak, Green Shutter House, New Haven, CT
By Tomorrow, Jackson Institute of Global Affairs, New Haven, CT
Care: The Arts at Yale Health, Yale Health Center, New Haven, CT
2021 Elàn Vital, curated by Max Teicher and Emily White of Gagosian Gallery, MoCA Westport, CT
10268#, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
2020 No Masters curated by A.L. Steiner, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
2019 Spirit Rift, Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
When Black Swallows Red, La MaMa, New York, NY
Vakwu, Sam Bennett and Sarah Lizzio Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Disposable Aesthetics, Hull’s Second Story, New Haven, CT
Midnight, Paradice Palase, Brooklyn, NY
2017 We Have Forgotten the Physical, Image Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 6X6X2016, Rochester Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
BOS Salon Show, Space 776, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Bob and Roberta Smith: Art Amnesty, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
2014 Hunter BFA Thesis, Leubsdorf Gallery, NY, NY
Awards/Honors/Fellowships
2022 Yale Prison Education Initiative, Visual Thinking, Teaching Fellowship
Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art: Deep Ecology in the Cognitive Capitalocene
Yale School of Art Teaching Assistanship, Visual Thinking, taught by Anahita Voussoughi
2021 Yale School of Art Teaching Assistantship, Color Practice, taught by Anoka Faruqee
Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art: Activist Neuroaesthetics of Cognitive Capitalism
Yale School of Art, Toby Devan Lewis Scholarship
2017 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant Nominee
Presentations
2021 Color and Cognition, Guest Lecture, Yale School of Art, ART 116: Color Practice
Chromavores: Color Theory in Painting Panelist, Yale School of Art
Selected Bibliography
2022 A System of Seeing, Clara Blumstein, LiveArt.io
On Radical Intimacies, Vibrant Matters Catalogue Essay, Alexandra M. Thomas
2021 One of America's Oldest and Most Prestigious Institutions Looks Ahead to the Future, Duke London, Thehundreds.uk
Provokr, Elàn Vital Exhibition Review "A Diverse Group of Artists in Perfect Harmony"
2020 Yale Daily News, Review of “No Masters” and Interview
Some Kind of Opening Ivy League Art Magazine, “Five Works” Interview
Inside Voices, “Artists Respond to Isolation”, Interview
2018 New Haven Arts Council, Exhibition Review
2017 Hyperallergic, “A View from the Easel”
Private/Public Collections:
Permanent Collection of Yale Health
Education
2022 MFA Painting/Printmaking Yale School of Art
2014 BFA Studio Art Hunter College
Solo Exhibitions
2021 And It Follows, Jennifer Terzian Gallery, Litchfield, CT
2017 Void Set Beach, Studio Show, Silks Building, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Vibrant Matters curated by Melanie Kress, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, New York, NY
Yale MFA Thesis: Vibrant Matters curated by Melanie Kress and Rachelle Dang, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
Friends in Bricolage curated by Matt Smoak, Green Shutter House, New Haven, CT
By Tomorrow, Jackson Institute of Global Affairs, New Haven, CT
Care: The Arts at Yale Health, Yale Health Center, New Haven, CT
2021 Elàn Vital, curated by Max Teicher and Emily White of Gagosian Gallery, MoCA Westport, CT
10268#, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
2020 No Masters curated by A.L. Steiner, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
2019 Spirit Rift, Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
When Black Swallows Red, La MaMa, New York, NY
Vakwu, Sam Bennett and Sarah Lizzio Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Disposable Aesthetics, Hull’s Second Story, New Haven, CT
Midnight, Paradice Palase, Brooklyn, NY
2017 We Have Forgotten the Physical, Image Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 6X6X2016, Rochester Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
BOS Salon Show, Space 776, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Bob and Roberta Smith: Art Amnesty, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
2014 Hunter BFA Thesis, Leubsdorf Gallery, NY, NY
Awards/Honors/Fellowships
2022 Yale Prison Education Initiative, Visual Thinking, Teaching Fellowship
Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art: Deep Ecology in the Cognitive Capitalocene
Yale School of Art Teaching Assistanship, Visual Thinking, taught by Anahita Voussoughi
2021 Yale School of Art Teaching Assistantship, Color Practice, taught by Anoka Faruqee
Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art: Activist Neuroaesthetics of Cognitive Capitalism
Yale School of Art, Toby Devan Lewis Scholarship
2017 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant Nominee
Presentations
2021 Color and Cognition, Guest Lecture, Yale School of Art, ART 116: Color Practice
Chromavores: Color Theory in Painting Panelist, Yale School of Art
Selected Bibliography
2022 A System of Seeing, Clara Blumstein, LiveArt.io
On Radical Intimacies, Vibrant Matters Catalogue Essay, Alexandra M. Thomas
2021 One of America's Oldest and Most Prestigious Institutions Looks Ahead to the Future, Duke London, Thehundreds.uk
Provokr, Elàn Vital Exhibition Review "A Diverse Group of Artists in Perfect Harmony"
2020 Yale Daily News, Review of “No Masters” and Interview
Some Kind of Opening Ivy League Art Magazine, “Five Works” Interview
Inside Voices, “Artists Respond to Isolation”, Interview
2018 New Haven Arts Council, Exhibition Review
2017 Hyperallergic, “A View from the Easel”
Private/Public Collections:
Permanent Collection of Yale Health