Education

2000 University of Texas, Austin, TX, MFA, Printmaking

1997 University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, BFA, Painting

Selected Publications & Reviews

2014 Lilly Lempe, Critic’s Picks (All My Work is Posthumous), Artforum

2011 Headache, Frederique Rusch and Alexandre Chaize, Editions du Livre, France
Felicia Feaster, Global Artists, Atlanta Magazine

New American Painting, #94, Open Studio Press

Wyatt Williams, A Few Questions with Alex Kvares and Mark Hosford,
Creative Loafing Atlanta

2009 New American Painting, #82, Open Studio Press

2007 Katherine Fox, One Sharp Draftsman, Atlanta Journal-Constitution,

Felicia Feaster, Containment Strategy, Creative Loafing

Phil Oppenheim, Art Papers

2006 Felicia Feaster, Queer as Folk, Creative Loafing, January

Jerry Cullum, Funky Good Time, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 23

2005 New American Painting, #58, Open Studio Press, 3 images &text

Phil Oppenheim, Art Papers

Jerry Cullum, Board of Imagery, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

2004 Katherine Fox, Student of Subcultures, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

2002 New American Painting, #35, Open Studio Press

The Review, July

The Kansas City Star, June 29th

Selected Exhibitions

2014 All My Work Is Posthumous (solo), Mulherin+ Pollard, New York, NY

2013 Grid/Graph, Mulherin + Pollard, New York, NY

2012 Another Green World, Beep Beep Gallery, Atlanta, GA

AB FAB, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA

SABOR!!, Leonard Codex, Brooklyn, NY

2011 Urban Mythos, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY

SasnaK (with Mark Hosford), Beep Beep gallery, Atlanta. GA

2010 Mergers and Acquisitions Two, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA

NEXT Art Fair, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Chicago, IL

On the Mark, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA

Movers & Shakers of the Georgia Arts Scene, MoCA GA, Atlanta, GA (Co-Curator)

Microwave 7, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA

Summer Shortcuts: a Drawing Forecast, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, NYC, NY

Gallery One Three Seven Project, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

Golden Blizzard: Blizzard Sleeves (with Golden Blizzard), Kibbee Gallery, Atlanta,

Oh So Fail (Solo), Beep Beep Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2008 West, Wester, Westest, Fecal Face Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Evil Prints: Outlaw Printmakers ’08, The Contemporary Art Museum, St.Louis, MO

Selects, Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2007 The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

Yes I Kansas, All Rise Gallery, Chicago, IL

The Young Movers and Shakers of the Georgia Art Scene, MOCA GA, Atlanta, GA

I’d Rather Be Drawing, Morgan gallery, Kansas City, MO

Selected Exhibitions

A Tremble Away from a Wink (solo), Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Tomorrow’s Drawing Today, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
The Art Center, St. Petersburg, FL

From America, Minsk Museum of Modern Art, Minsk, Belarus (former USSR)

Bad Drawing: mistaken, misbehaving, malevolent, awful, University Galleries on Sycamore, Cincinnati, OH

Exquisite Corpse, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA

Golden Blizzard: a Retrospective (solo, Golden Blizzard Collective), Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Affair at the Jupiter Hotel , Contemporary Art Fair (solo exhibition and performance representing Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Golden Blizzard Collective), Portland, OR

Blow Me a Blizzard (solo, Golden Blizzard Collective), Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta,

Love Hurts (solo, Golden Blizzard Collective), Young Blood Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Glitter Mortis (solo, Golden Blizzard Collective), Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, (MOCA GA), Atlanta, GA

2005 The Last Taboo, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA), Atlanta

Homegrown, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Winston-Salem, NC

Kaleidoscope, Woodruff Art Center, Atlanta, GA

Creepypeaches Meets Sugarboy and Madame X, University Gallery, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

Food, Gas & Lodging, Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2004 Sweet Flypaper of Life/ William Cordova, Kojo Griffin, Alexander Kvares, Charles Nelson, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Draw, Soo Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN

Gun and Knife Show, Fahrenheit Gallery, Kansas City, MO

The Stray Show, 1418 N. Kingsbury, Chicago IL

Atlanta Biennial, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA

Selected Exhibitions

2003 Two For Flinching, City Gallery Chastain, Atlanta, GA

A Shot in the Dark (curator), Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA

2002 Summer Invitational, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

Strange Comfort, Gatov Gallery, Long Beach, CA

Alexander Kvares, Recent Work (solo), UNI Gallery of Art,
University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA

Fresh, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

Kvares and Hosford, New Work, Slugfest gallery, Austin TX

Relativities (Traveling Exhibition),
Bankside Gallery, London, UK
The City Gallery, Leicester, UK
Aberyswyth Arts Center, Aberyswyth, UK
St. Barbe Museum, Lymington, UK
Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen, UK
Gracefield Arts Center, Shetland, UK
Off-Centre gallery, Bristol, UK
Bristol City Museum, Bristol, UK

1999 Murder (Traveling Exhibition)
Brazilian Cultural Center, Asncion, Paraguay
University of Windsor Art Gallery, Windsor, Canada
ISIS Gallery, University of Notre Dame, IN
Slugfest gallery, Austin TX
White Walls Gallery, Washington, DC

1998 Dakotas International Exhibition of Works on Paper
University of South Dakota Art Gallery, Vermilion, SD

Parkside National Small Prints Exhibition
University of Wisconsin Art Gallery, Kenosha, WI