Alex Hedison (USA, b. 1969)
Alex Hedison is a contemporary fine art photographer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles.
Committed to the decisiveness and precision of working with large and medium format film as well as digital technology, she addresses the interstices between tradition and novelty by exploring transitions between the two. Each photograph is a direct encounter between the individual and the immensity of the landscape, both architectural and natural. She often focuses on synthetic veils in ordinary environments, identifying a conceptual space between places. A geometry emerges and creates an architectural composition irrespective of context, linking her work to a medium-specific modernity that bolsters her observations of contemporary life.
She presents her work in series, and her photographs are a direct encounter between the individual and the immensity of the landscape. Recently, A Brief Infinity (2022) explored camera-less techniques including chemigrams (which produce an image using chemicals on light-sensitive paper) and hand-painted surfaces.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Hedison received her BA from Antioch University (2021) and previously studied at UCLA (1991) and SUNY Purchase (1989). Since 2017, she has held solo exhibitions with H Gallery, Paris; Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles; and recently with Shinsegae Gallery in Seoul, Korea. Her work was included in The Stubborn Influence of Painting, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado (2021); The Useful and the Decorative, The Landing, Los Angeles (2017); and Cadavre Exquis, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica; among others.
Hedison has shown work with Southern Guild from Dec 2024 and has been included in fair presentations at Frieze LA and NY, Untitled, Miami and Expo Chicago, and at exhibitions at Southern Guild gallery in Los Angeles.
Hedison’s photographs are in the permanent collection of The Getty Museum; The Philadelphia Musuem of Art; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Beth Rudin DeWoody/Bunker Art Space, West Palm Beach; Shah Garg Collection and Barclays Capital, London. Exhibition catalogues were published for A Brief Infinity, 2023, and Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, 2012, her solo exhibition with Diane Rosenstein Gallery in Los Angeles.
In 2024, Hedison directed ALOK, a documentary short film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film has been shown as part of the International Sundance Shorts Tour at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Phila MOCA, Philadelphia, PA; and the IFC Center in New York City; among others. ALOK was named Winner Best Documentary Short at the Sarasota Film Festival and the Audience Award Winner (Documentary Short) at NewFest in New York City.
EDUCATION
2021 BA, Antioch University
1992 University of California, Los Angeles
1987 State University of New York, Purchase
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 A Brief Infinity, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
A Brief Infinity, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 A Brief Infinity, H Gallery, Paris, France
2019 The In Between, H Gallery (Urban Art Fair), Paris
Here Not Here, H Gallery, Paris
2018 The In Between, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles
The In Between, H Gallery (Art Paris), Paris
The In Between, H Gallery (Photo London), London
The In Between, H Gallery (Paris Photo), Paris
2017 The In Between, H Gallery, Paris
10 Days, 20 Years, La Salle René Capitant - Mairie du Panthéon, Paris
2016 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Centro Cultural de Cascais, Cascais, Portugal
2012 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA
2010 In the Woods, Meredith Gunderson Projects, London, UK
Ithaka, Mews 42 Gallery, London
2009 Ithaka, Frank Pictures Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2008. Ithaka, Gallery 28, New York City, NY
Ithaka, Point of View Gallery, NYC in conjunction with The New Yorker’s Passport to The Arts
Ithaka, Shoreditch Town Hall, London in conjunction with Concrete and Glass
Ithaka, Shoreditch House, London
2005. Rebuilding, White Room Gallery, Los Angeles
2004 Elements, White Room Gallery, Los Angeles
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Convergence: Contemporary Artists of Armenian Descent, Forest Lawn Museum, Glendale, CA
2025 In Us Is Heaven, Southern Guild Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Beyond the Rainbow, The Bunker Art Space, West Palm Beach, Florida
2024 Twelve-Anniversary Exhibition, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles
2023 Faire Historie, H Gallery, Paris
2022 Cadavre Exquis, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica
2021 The Stubborn Influence of Painting, BMOCA, Boulder, CO
The In Between, H Gallery (Urban Art Fair), Paris
2020 The In Between, H Gallery (Art Paris), Paris
2019 By Collectors, La Montgolfière, Paris
2018 The In Between, Von Lintel Gallery (PULSE Miami), Miami Beach, FL
Talk To Me - 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles
2017 The Useful and the Decorative, The Landing, Los Angeles
2016 Both Sides of Sunset - Photographs of Los Angeles, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles
2013 First Anniversary- Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture and Photographs,
Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles
My Aim Is True, The Frostig Collection, Los Angeles
2002 Summer Exhibition, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica
RESIDENCY
2011 Myriam Blundell Projects: Willums Art Foundation Residency Programme, Pourrieres, France
AWARDS
2008 Barclays Capital, London, UK, Sponsorship recipient
COLLECTIONS
Getty Museum
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Grunwald Center Collection, Hammer Museum
Shah Garg Collection
CQ Global, Singapore
Barclays Capital, London, UK
Beth Rudin DeWoody
Participant Media