Education
2008 MFA, Studio Art, New York University, New York, NY
2002 BS, Studio Art, New York University, New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Use What You Have To Make What You Need, de boer, Los Angeles, CA
2021 What We Don’t Remember Lives in Us Forever, de boer, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Alex McQuilkin: 4 Videos, Plymouth Rock, Zurich, CH
2017 Superficies, MuseumofAmericaBooks, Brooklyn, NY
2014 …a girl should be, Spring/Break, Old School, New York, NY
2011 Alex McQuilkin: The First Ten Years, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Unbreak My Heart, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY
2009 I Wish I Was a Beam of Light, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt, DE
2008 Romeo and Juliet, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt, DE
2007 Joan of Arc, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Live Through This, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY
2005 New Media Wall, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Test Run, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Tragically Sweet, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt, DE
2003 Double Life, 404 arte contemporanea, Naples, Italy
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Someone Else, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, DE
The Ulterior Narrative, Tick Tack, Antwertp, BE
Currents: Women Artists from the KMA Collection, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
Prospect & Co-Prosperity, Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, Chengdu, CN
Artists & Allies V, Signs and Symbols, New York, NY
2021
Everything Has It’s Place, Sevil Dolmaci, Istanbul, TR
12 Notes, Zona Frana Projects, Barcelona, ES
NADA x Foreland, Catskill, NY
Chromatic Vigils/Low Tides, The Sphinx Northeast, Hudson, NY
Safe Harbor, One Mile, Kingston, NY
2020
Beyond Appearances: Women Looking at Women, Kunstraum, Brooklyn, NY
2019
I will be Dead, KÖNIG LONDON, London, UK
20 x 16, Morgan Lehman, New York, NY
2018
Complicated Territory: Alex McQuilkin, Erin Riley, Martha Tuttle, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Girls 3000, Martinetz Gallery, Cologne, DE
The Cruellest Month, Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY
Tell Him What We Said About “Paint it Black”, One Mile Gallery, Kingston, NY
Tell Him What We Said About “Paint it Black”, Thorne-Sagendorph Gallery, Keene State, Keene, NH
2017
Feedback, Marlborough Contemporary, New York, NY
Escape Attempts, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA
Squared x 2, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2016
These Days; Leaves of Grass, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Queensize, Museum Arnhem, NL
I Prefer Life, Reyden Weiss Collection, Weserburg, Bremen DE
Television, 99 Cent Plus Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015
My Way, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Frieze NY, New York, NY
Auto Body, Faena Arts Center, Buenos Aires, AR
The Now Forever, Basilica Hudson, Hudson, NY
PLAY, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Raw and the Cooked, Frosch & Portman, New York, NY
In Your Dreams, Neuehouse, New York, NY
2014
Queensize, Collectors Room, Berlin, DE
Auto Body, Spinello Projects, Miami, FL
A Womanhouse or a Roaming House, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Undulation of Something Faintly Familiar, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
Misrepresentation, Lesley Heller, New York, NY
By Invitation Only, Kinz + Tillou, Brooklyn, NY
Birds, Bernaducci Meisel, New York, NY
The Whitney Art Party Auction, Highline Stages, New York, NY
Unlooped-Kino, Manifesta 10, St. Petersburg, RU
The Reason for Beauty, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Still/Video, Pingyao International Photo Festival, Pingyao, CH
2013
Play- The Frivolous and the Serious, The Collectors Room, Berlin, DE
Currents, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
Holiday Show, NeueHouse, New York, NY
Goddess, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2012
En Désordre, Philara-Sammlung Zeitgenössischer Kunst, Dusseldorf, DE
Ugly, Broke, Sober, Kathleen Cullen Fine Art, New York, NY
Graphomania, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
These are the Good Times, New York University, New York, NY
2011
Guilty Pleasures, 2020 art, Sydney, Australia
Desperate Acts, Columbia University, Macy Art Gallery, New York, NY
Presages, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Saccharine, Grimmuseum, Berlin, DE
Highlights from the Kunstfilm Biennial, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
Hip & Cool, Fundacion Marcelino Botin, Santander, ES
Gewalt, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE
Mother, New York University, New York, NY
Julia Stoschek Collection- I Want to See How You See, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, DE
2009
On Portrait-01, Kunstagenten Gallery, Berlin, DE
East Coast Video, Ramis Barquet, New York, NY
Radiographas 09, Center for Ancient Art Institute, Gijon, ES
KunstFilmBiennale, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE
Highlights from the KunstFilmBiennale, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, ES
Highlights from the KunstFilmBiennale, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Talk, Talk, Academy of Visual Arts [HGB], Leipzig, DE
Talk, Talk, Kunstverein Medienturm Graz, Graz, AU
That’s Just the Way It Is, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY
Talk Dirty to Me, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
Highlights from the KunstFilmBiennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
Brooklyn is Burning, Glasslands, Brooklyn, NY
2008
Diana und Actaeon, Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, DE
Number Two: Fragile, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, DE
Busan Biennial: Expenditure, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, KR
VIDEOCRACY, tina b., The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, CZ
A Silence: Jesper Just/Alex McQuilkin/Jen Gustavson, Sala SAM, Santiago, CL
2007
Look Away, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY
Teenage Kicks, Vegas Gallery, London, UK
Aggression, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, CH
Kunstfilm Biennial, Cologne, DE
Felt Temperature..., Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, DE
Into Me/Out of Me, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, IT
Final Cut, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabruck, DE
Je Suis Une Bombe, Kunsthalle Barmen, Wuppertal, DE
12th Biennial of Moving Images, Centre pour L’Image Contemporain, Saint Geneve, CH
Final Cut, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabruck, DE
2006
Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY
Into Me/Out of Me, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
HER-SELF, Ritter/Zamet, London, UK
VIDEONALE Bonn, Ernst Museum, Budapest, HU
Lo Ultimo de Nueva York, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, ES
America: How Contemporary Artists see the USA, Figge von Rosen, Cologne, DE
When the Revolution Comes, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY
Video Heroes, CGAC, The Contemporary Art Museum of Santiago de Compostela, ES
Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle, Franfurt, DE
COOLHUNTERS, Budapest Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, HU
2005
COOLHUNTERS, Kunstlerhaus Wien, AU
Vicious, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Fransisco, CA
Orgien, Voelker & Freunde Galerie, Berlin, DE
Dead Kids Do Nothing, 31 Grand, Brooklyn, NY
Corpus 05 Brugge, Musea Brugge, Brugge, BE
Realities III: Exceptions, Fotogalerie Wien, Wien, AU
Poesia In Forma Di Rosa, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, IT
Video/Ekonomie, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Museum Karlsruhe, DE
First We Take Museums, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, FI
Himmelsbilder, Dommuseum zu Salzburg, Saslzburg, AU
Boost in the Shell, Cultural Center of Bruges, Bruges, BE
Nocturnal Transmissions, Curator’s Office, Washington, DC
COOLHUNTERS, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Museum Karlsruhe, DE
Unspeakable, Aeroplastics, Brussels, BE
2004
Body, Gimm Eis, Copenhagen, DK
Black Milk, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY
Short Histories of Video, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Like a Virgin, Eastern Edge, St. John’s, CA
Pulse of America, Aeroplastics, Brussels, BE
2003
Without Fear or Reproach, Witte Zaal, Gent, BeE
Foreplay, Ritter/Zamet Galerie, London, UK
Meanwhile in the Real World, Chapelle de la Sorbonne, Paris, FR
Female Turbulence, Aeroplastics, Brussels, BE
Interdit Aux Moins 18 Ans, Galerie Une, Neuchatel, CH
Luxurious, Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg
No Platform Just a Trampoline, Marcus Ritter Gallery, New York, NY
Bad Girls, Ikon Ltd./Kay Richards Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA
Emergencias, Galeria de Arte Carmen de la Guerra, Madrid, ES, 2002
Cabaret Electronico, Galeria de Arte Carmen de la Guerra, Madrid, ES
Porn Ar(t)ound the World, KC nOna, Mechelen, BE
Room for a Revolution, Deluxe Projects, Chicago, IL
Strip and Tease, Aeroplastics, Brussels, DE
Selected Bibliography
2018
Graver, David, “Complicated Territory at Dorsky Gallery,” Coolhunting.com, October 1
2017
Syms, Edward, “Alex McQuilkin: Artist of Self Discovery,” Frontrunner Magazine, February
2016
Van Leeuwen, Anna Meisje, "Meisje aan de Wand," Volkskrant, February 26
2014
Hodara, Susan, “Personal Ways of Untangling the Political,” The New York Times, November 8
“Here’s to Everlasting Youth,” Foliocue.com, April 28
2013
Hill, Andrea, “Alex McQuilkin on Brigitte Bardot”, Paddle8.com, June 12
Scherm, Rebecca “The Gaze That Stands Between You and Everything Real,” The Hairpin,
August 8
2010
Hunter, Becky, “Ana Finel Honigman’s Saccharine”, Dazed Digital, October
I Want To See How You See, Exhibition Catalogue, 102-103.
2009
Johnson, Ken, “East Coast Video,” The New York Times, July 30
Schütte, Christoph, “Posen, Blick, Tränen,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 8, 35
Cantz, Hatje, Number Two: Fragile, Julia Stoschek Collection, Exhibition Catalogue, 231-244.
2008
Kielmayer, Oliver, Aggression, Kunsthalle Winterthur Catalogue, 47-53.
Cohen, Michael, Expenditure: Busan Biennale Catalogue, 47, 248-249.
Castillo, Rodrigo, “Audaz gringa se ahoga por partida doble en Santiago,” August 15
Robinson, Walter, “Bataille Biennale In Busan,” artnet, July 17
Sala SAM presenta exposicion "A Silence,” La Segunda, July 31
2007
Smith, Roberta, Last Chance Arts Listings, The New York Times, November 23
Micchelli, Thomas, “Alex McQuilkin: Joan of Arc,” The Brooklyn Rail, December 14
Cohen, David, “Double Dose of French Film,” The New York Sun, November 1
Honigman, Ana Finel, “Not Another Teen Movie,” Style.com, October 17
Fyfe, Joe, “Who's a Martyr Today?,” Gay City News, November 14
Cantz Hatje, Into Me/Out of Me Exhibition Catalogue, 332-333, 537, 566.
Fyfe, Joe, “Alex McQuilkin: Joan of Arc,” artcritical.com, Dec 11
Final Cut: Media Art and Cinema Exhibition Catalogue, May
KunstFilm Biennale Exhibition Catalogue, 70.
2006
Saltz, Jerry, “Desperata,” The Village Voice, April 28
Johnson, Ken, “At P.S.1, an Exhibition Focusing on the Shock of the Body in All Its Messy
Corporality,” The New York Times, July 7
“And Leonardo, Too,” The New York Sun, April 5
Honigman, Ana Finel, “Overwhelming Life,” artnet, March 29
Berwick, Carly, “Blood, Sweat, Tears and More Fill P.S.1s Galleries in Queens,” Bloomerg.com,
July 5
Cohen, David, “Art as a Four Letter Word,” The New York Sun, July 20
Melchart, Erwin, “Galerie auf Weltreise,” Kronenzeitung Wien, January 25
The Youth of Today Exhibition Catalogue, Number 1
2005
Dath, Dietmar, “Wie man Insider Ausgrenzt,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 8
Fessler, Anne Katrin, “Der Ort ist die Strasse,” Der Standard, Austria, July 22, 22
Honigman, Ana Finel, “London in Pictures,” artnet, June 6
Thon, Ute, “Alex McQuilkin: Madchenkunst Echt Bose!” Art, January, 43 – 49
Goldstein, Leigh, “One to Watch: Alex McQuilkin,” Artkrush, Issue 17, October 19
“Karlsruhe: Coolhunters - Wie die Halfpipe ins Museum Kommt,” Art, May, 92
McQuaid, Cate, "Girl Watching," The Boston Globe, February 25, 2005.
Kaufmann, Suasanne, “Der Will Nur Spielen,” Kunstzeitung, 106, June 26
Bantelmann, Wiebke, “Im Jugendzimmer,” Badische Zeitung, April 29
Patzer, Georg, “Mit Coco Chanel Gebrandmarkt,” Stuttgarter Zeitung, April 28
Hoch, Jenny, “Konformismus Kann Geil Sein,” Der Spiegel 17, 147
Buhr, Elke, “Nachrichten aus Teenie-Land,” Frankfurter Rundschau, April 27, 15
Braun, Adrienne, “Wie die Halfpipe ins Museum Kommt,” Art, May, 92
2004
Cohen, Michael, “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” FlashArt, March, 94- 95
Schutte, Christoph, “Pferdebilder und Lippenstift.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 18, 50
Borowski, Judith, “Punkvideos und rosarote Backfischwelt,” Financial Times Deutschland, October 22, 3
Peschke, Mark, “So Beeinflussbar,” Frankfurter Rundschau, 15
Coulson, Amanda, “Alex McQuilkin,” Lapiz, October, 86
2003
Finch, Charlie, “The Next Big Thing,” artnet, April 2
“Double Life: Trine Boesen e Alex McQuilkin,” AdrART, January
Pacifico, Maya, “Trine Boesen e Alex Mcquilkin-Double Life: Napoli,” Exibart, February 7
2002
Dannatt, Adrian, “L'art et son marche: Une foire jeune,” Le Journal des Arts, April, 5-18, 21
Streitfeld. L.P., “Post Sept. 11:Eroticism In New York,” New York Arts Magazine, April
Dannatt, Adrian, “Raunchy Merchandise On Virtually Every Stand,” The Art Newspaper, April 37