ALEX KERR
Alex Kerr (b. 1989, Norfolk, Virginia) is a Los Angeles-based visual artist whose work explores the interplay between performance, identity, and artifice. Through a multidisciplinary practice spanning oil painting, ceramics, bronze, and mixed media, Kerr constructs surreal, theatrical worlds where self-mythology and masquerade collide. His work is steeped in dramaturgic symbolism—the harlequin, the vanity mirror, the mask—recurring motifs that question the boundary between authenticity and illusion. Utilizing disquieting color, layered patterns, and distorted spatial perspectives, Kerr investigates the tension between visibility and concealment, self-expression and deflection, ultimately transforming familiar objects and scenes into uncanny sites of existential inquiry.
Kerr has exhibited widely in solo and two-person exhibitions at NOON Projects (Los Angeles), New Low (Los Angeles), Slow Ode (Los Angeles), Mint (Atlanta), and Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta). He has also participated in group exhibitions at Guerrero Gallery (Los Angeles), The Floating Gallery (Los Angeles), and David Zwirner’s Platform (online). Kerr has been awarded residencies and fellowships, including the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences Fellowship and the Mint Leap Year Fellowship. He received his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2022 and his BFA from Georgia State University in 2015.
