Alexander Massouras (b. 1981) is an artist from Nottingham now based in Cambridge, UK. His work is in UK and international collections including the British Museum, the V&A, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. He was a Leverhulme Fellow at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre.
Through selective appropriation and erasure of found images, Massouras’s paintings, sculptures and prints explore the construction of the past, and the personal residues left on public memory. He uses a visual language that is simultaneously fragile and stark to question the very nature of permanence in art.
Collections
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Ashmolean Museum
- British Museum
- Deste Foundation
- Fitzwilliam Museum
- King’s College London
- London School of Economics
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- New York Public Library
- Rhode Island School of Design
- Victoria and Albert Museum
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, Departures (solo)
2024 Arter, Istanbul, Suppose You Are Not (work from the Ömer Koç collection, curated by Selen Ansen)
2023 Willoughby Gerrish, London, Apertures (solo)
2023 VCRB Gallery, Antwerp, Ambiguita
2022 Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, Hockney to Himid: 60 Years of British Printmaking
2019 Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, The Cambridge Show
King’s College, Cambridge, Not Now (solo)
2013 Pace, New York, Lucy de Kooning Presents (with Aakash Nihalani and
Carlos Soto)
2012 Artissima 19, Turin, Present Future curated section (solo)
2010 Jerwood Space, London (and tour), Jerwood Drawing Prize
2009 Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, Northern Print Biennale