David Alekhuogie

Deux Bobine, 2024. Archival pigment print on cotton rag, two panel frames interlocked, 40 x 50 inches and 32 x 40 inches.

Mask 99/2, 2022. Archival inkjet print on cotton rag, 36 x 48 inches.

BIOGRAPHY
Born: Los Angeles, California, 1986
Resides: Rancho Cucamonga, California
Education: Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute Fellow (present); Yale University (M.F.A., 2015); School of the Art Institute in Chicago (B.F.A., 2013); University of California, Berkeley (B.S. 2008); Chaffey Community College (A.A., 2011)
Website: davidalekhuogie.com

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
“I made this for you,” Assembly, Houston, Texas.

2021
“Naïveté,” Yancey Richardson, New York.

2019
“Black Satin,” Company Gallery, New York.
“to live & die in LA,” Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles.
“Gravity,” Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery.

2018
“Them Boys,” University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

2017
“Them Boys,” Skibum MacArthur, Los Angeles.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
“Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
“Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
“There is a Body,” Katonah Museum of Art, New York.

2023
“Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960,” Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
“Remix,” J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
“New Directions: Recent Acquisitions,” George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York.

2022
“A History of Photography: Selections from the Museum’s Collection,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.

2021
“Men of Change: Power, Triumph, Truth,” California African American Museum, Los Angeles.

2020
“New Photography: Companion Pieces,” Museum of Modern Art, New York.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021
Bell, Graham W. “David Alekhuogie: Naïveté,” The Brooklyn Rail (April).
Iduma, Emmanuel. “How David Alekhuogie Navigates the Colonial Past,” Aperture (April 30).
Southern, Lara. “Interview: David Alekhuogie ‘Naïveté,’” Musée (April 1).

2020
Dafoe, Taylor. “MoMA’s ‘New Photography’ Show Spotlights Young Photographers Making the Medium Tactile; There’s Just One Problem: It’s Online Only,”artnet.com (November 30).
“Works for the Now, by Queer Artists of Color,” New York Times Style Magazine (June 29).

2019
Aton, Francesca. “David Alekhuogie on American Landscape and Body Politics,” Art in America (July 11).
Roffino, Sara. “A Condo Tour with Walter Robinson,” culturedmag.com (July 11).
Laster, Paul. “6 Must-See Artists Showing at Condo New York 2019,” Galerie (July 10).
Farago, Jason. “The Los Angeles Art Scene Looks to the World,” New York Times (February 28).
Weiss, Aurielle. “David Alekhuogie Defies Gravity in Exhibition,” Flaunt (February 14).

2018
Horst, Aaron. “David Alekhuogie Them Boys,” artreview.com (January 12).

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