Yorgo Alexopoulos is an American-born artist of Greek descent who combines a variety of media into immersive fine art installations and artworks. He is best known for his digitally animated works that fuse painting, drawing, photography, and cinematography into video installations and mixed-media sculptures. He often presents these works by combining and synchronizing multiple monitors or projections. Alexopoulos' artworks are concerned with the archetypal and often touch upon transcendental themes. Though he is frequently referred to as a digital artist, his practice is rooted in painting, the artist's primary medium.
Permanent public installations include a 27-channel video installation for Norman Foster's Bow Building in Calgary, Alberta, as well as large-scale video installations in Chicago's AMA Plaza designed by Mies Van Der Rohe, and New York's Row Hotel in Times Square. In 2011, he was commissioned by the Art Production Fund to produce a sprawling 432 LCD screen installation for the lobby of The Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas.
Alexopoulos' work has been written about in Artforum, The New York Times, The Creators Project (VICE Magazine), Architectural Digest, Forbes and Fast Company Design.
Yorgo Alexopoulos is a member of the legendary Los Angeles graffiti crew WCA (West Coast Artists), when during his youth he tagged ASH, helping to pioneer the graffiti movement in Southern California during the 1980s.
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Born in 1971
Lives and works in Los Angeles and New York City
EDUCATION
1995 BFA, School of the Arts Institute of Chicago
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
Times Square Alliance, Midnight Moment; Transits, New York, NY, 2014
Langham Hotel, IBM Building, Chicago, IL, 2013
Milford Plaza, New York, NY, 2013
Bow Building, Calgary Alberta, 2013
Cosmopolitan Hotel, Las Vegas, NV, 2011
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation
West Collection
Goldman Sachs
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Conjugated Gradients, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Drifting on a Memory, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA
2016
Act of Nature, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY
2015
C L O U D S, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA
2012
Transmigrations, Cristin Tierney, New York, NY
2011
No Feeling is Final; In Five Chapters, Kinz+Tillou Fine Art, New York, NY
2010
No Feeling is Final; In Five Chapters, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2007
The Infinite Sphere, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Retro Futurists, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
2001
The Truth Will Be Far Stranger, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
New Works, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA
2013
Lumens Festival, Lyons Pool, New York City, NY
2011
Revelation Regeneration, The Streaming Museum, New York, NY
2010
Bakers Dozen, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The New Old, Invisible Exports, New York, NY
2001
Respirator, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY
Superimposition, Caren Golden Gallery, New York, NY
2000
Dusk, I-20, New York, NY
Zeitgeist, Dirt Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1999
Science Fictions, White Columns, New York, NY
Return of the Real, Videoland, New York, NY
Forever is a Hell of a Long Time, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY
Photosynthesis, Rare, New York, NY
Broken Dreams, Red Chair Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Fact or Fiction, Red Chair Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1998
Gallery Artists, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY
Post Millennia Stress, Dirt Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1997
Road Show, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY
Inter Galactic, Four Walls, San Francisco, CA