Alex Kay was born in Moscow, Russia in 1982. He traveled and lived all over the world with his family until moving to the United States in 2010. He earned his Master Of Fine Arts Degree at OTIS College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, CA. He also earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Professional Photography at Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. His multicultural perspective has now poured itself into the digital realm. Just as Uda Barth creates in the confines of her own home, Kay has turned to computer technology as his fountainhead. It is at once his entertainment, social hub, library, shopping mall, and art studio. In this realm Kay is investigating the digital culture’s perceptions of art, religion, and fame.
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Untitled, Back Gallery, Culver City, CA
2017 Unauthorized SFMOMA Show #647, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2016 Kim Zhang Mao, OTIS Graduate Department, Culver City, CA
Group Exhibitions
2022 Magix, Exhibizone, Onatrio, Canada
2021 ALC VideoArt Festival, Contemporary Art Museum of Alicante, Alicante, Spain
2021 Dictatorship of Political Correctness, IAVPOA, Kaunas, Lithuania
2021 Reality And Abstraction, IAVPOA, Kaunas, Lithuania
2020 Art of Black & White, Brick Lane Gallery, London, UK
2020 Creative Distancing, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
2020 Quarantine, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2020 Head on Collision, LAST Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Lusted Men, Recyclart, Brussels, Belgium
2019 Print Fair & Festival, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
2018 The Creative Portrait, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Annual Exhibition ’17, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Graduate Open Studios, OTIS Graduate Department, Culver City, CA
2017 Intake, Four Friends Gallery, Thousand Oaks, CA
2017 FAR Bazaar, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
2017 Inauguration, O.R. Gallery, Culver City, CA
2016 Liminal Spaces Between Life And Death, Appreciation And Appropriation, Square Gallery, London, UK
2016 Power of Interconnectivity, O.R. Gallery, Culver City, CA
2016 In Time and Space, Bells Art Factory, Ventura, CA
2015 Noche de Altares, Marcas Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
Awards
2024 A Long & Winding Road, Contest Winner
2023 Photographs People Like, Contest Winner
2022 Bridges, Contest Winner
2021 Edition In Five Or Less, Contest Winner
2021 Street Scene, Finalist
2020 Flowers That Could Be Paintings, Contest Winner
2019 In Edition of Five, Contest Winner
2019 Some Kind of Blue, Contest Winner
2018 Aviation, Contest Winner
2018 Nature, Contest Winner
2017 The Big Beautiful Moon, Contest Winner
2016 Transportation, Contest Winner
As Meshki Collective
2018 Wilmington Art Walk, Wilmington, CA
2018 Pins And Patches Expo, Santa Ana, CA
2018 Maiden L.A., Los Angeles, CA
2018 White Circle, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2018 Other Places Art Fair, San Pedro, CA
2017 Art Bazaar, O.R. Gallery, Culver City, CA
2017 Maiden L.A., Los Angeles, CA
2017 DNC, PØST, Los Angeles, CA
2017 DNC, Proxy Gallery, Culver City, CA
2017 The Lift, O.R. Gallery, Culver City, CA
2017 Meshki: Royal Black, Potato Sacks, i.e., Meaningmization, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Directed Scores, Ben Maltz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA