Alexandra Noel (b. 1989) currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She graduated with a BA in Visual Arts from the University of San Diego in 2011 and a MFA from Art Center College of Design in 2013.

Alexandra Noel’s small-scale paintings reveal uncanny assemblages of images. She concentrates on things depicted in a manner somewhere between surreal and familiar: newborns, home objects, and suburbia landscapes. She incorporates these aspects into far-flung imagined landscapes, tragic scenarios, and reinvented cinematic moments. The little panels hint at the size difference between human bodies and electronic devices. She zooms in, crops, stretches, and rescales her little panels as if they were images on screen. The audience is invited to view them from a very intimate perspective. Meanwhile, she emphasizes the tension between being sculptural and illusionistic. As a painter, Noel establishes a linguistic parallel to the dystopic and magical themes of her works by writing fiction that resembles the tone of poetry or a movie.

Recent Solo Exhibitions: Due, Barbati Gallery, Venice, Italy (2024); Three, Four, Derosia, New York, US (2022); Table, Galerie Crèvecoeur, Paris, France (2022); Funny Looking, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China (2021); Beijing Contemporary 2020 – Solo presentation with Antenna Space, 798 Art Center, Beijing, China (2020); There’s always something, Bodega (Derosia), New York, US (2019); Just a head, Atlantis, Marseille, France (2019); Master Planned, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Paris, France (2019); Theatre Road, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, US (2018); Frieze London – Solo presentation with Bodega (Derosia), London, UK (2018); The Armory Show – Solo presentation with Bodega (Derosia), New York, US (2017) among others.

Selected Group Exhibitions: What Men Live By, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium (2024); Burning Down the House: Rethinking Family, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Switzerland (2024); Horizons: Is there anybody out there?, curated by Robin Peckham, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China (2023); Basic Fit, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium (2023); Small Fixations, ICA Milano, Milan, Italy (2022); FRONT International Triennial: Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows, Cleveland, US (2022); Particularities, curated by Chris Sharp, X Museum, Beijing, China (2021); Made in L.A. 2020: A Version, Hammer Museum and The Huntington, Los Angeles, US (2020); The Sentimental Organization of the World, Galerie Crèvecoeur, Paris, France (2020); Bolthole, Potts, Los Angeles, US (2019); A Cloth Over a Birdcage, Château Shatto, Los Angeles, US (2019); Kiss in Tears, curated by XYZ Collective, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles, US (2018); Condo NY – Hosting Crèvecoeur (Paris), Derosia, New York, US (2018); Economy Plus, curated by Camille Blatrix, Balice Hertling, Paris, France (2017); Paris Internationale 2017 (Special Feature, Part 2), Libération de Paris, Paris, France (2017) among others.