Alexander Edwards

ALEXANDER EDWARDS is a multidisciplinary artist whose work engages systems of preservation as material conditions. Working across sculpture and installation, he employs perishable matter and discarded materials—including spices, e-waste, and wood—to construct contemporary reliquaries in which degradation becomes a record of time, labor, and survival. Rather than framing decay as loss, the work treats material exhaustion as evidence of circulation and value.

Drawing on still-life traditions and memento mori within a landscape of technological surplus, Edwards positions preservation as both ritual and containment. Through accumulation, and restraint, his sculptures function as quiet archives that hold bodily presence and temporal instability in suspension, framing fragility as a structural condition embedded within biological, social, and technological systems.

Edwards has exhibited at Emmanuel Gallery (Denver), Kate Werble Gallery (New York), and Ruscha & Co. (Los Angeles), and has received support from Hangar Centro de Investigação, Lisbon. He attended Pratt Institute and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

BA Visual & Critical Studies | Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, 2018

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 | “Lisbon Lemons” | Hangar Centro de Investigação Artística Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 | “Open Call 2026” Curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah | The Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2026 | “All That Remains (Residue)” | The Bishop Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2026 | “Pearl Show” | So-Too Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2026 | “Dear Artists—Be Still” | Band of Vices Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2026 | “Postcards From The Edge” | Visual AIDS - Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, NY
2025 | “SMOKESHOW” | SO-TOO Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2025 | “Love Letter Show” | Rusha & Co., Los Angeles, CA
2025 | “Made in Colorado” | Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2025 | “SHELF” curated by Rachel Allen and Nathan Carter | Kate Werble Gallery, New York City, New York
2023 | “December Holiday Show” | The Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2023 | “Where Are We?” | Fuori Visioni 7 Festival d'arte contemporanea, Biblioteca Passerini-Landi, Milan, Italy
2023 | “THE PATRIOT” | O’ Flaherty’s Gallery, New York City, New York
2023 | “ART SHOW 2” | Brooklyn, NY
2021 | “#protectchinatown” | Citigroup Gallery, Art Against Displacement, New York, NY
2021 | “Art a...