Alexis Portilla

ALEXIS PORTILLA (b. 1965) is a Mexican-born artist living and working in New York City. His work can be found in public and corporate collections throughout the United States and abroad, including The New York Public Library, Penn State University, Harvard University, Warner Music Group, Pepsi Co., PricewaterhouseCoopers, Norwest Venture Partners, and Mikasa Corporation. In addition, his work is in more than 250 private collections in the United States, England, France, and Germany.

For more than 20 years, Portilla's work has been regularly exhibited at prominent venues throughout the United States. His work has been the subject of 11 solo exhibitions at established galleries in New York, New Jersey, Atlanta, and Hong Kong. His work has been exhibited in museum group exhibitions at the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Michigan, Hofstra University Museum in New York, and Monmouth Museum in New Jersey, as well as numerous group exhibitions and high-profile art fairs in New York, Miami, Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia.

Portilla’s work has received international press attention and has been reviewed in several publications, including Artnews. He has been a faculty instructor at Columbia University, where he taught pri...

MFA, Columbia University, 1990
BFA, Pratt Institute, 1987

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2017 Alexis Portilla: Poet in Space, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, NY

2014 Alexis Portilla: Surface Tension, Birnam Wood Galleries, New York, NY

2011 Alexis Portilla: Particles, Causey Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY

2010 Next Art Fair (Solo Booth), Causey Contemporary, Chicago

2009 Alexis Portilla: Under Currents; Paintings and Works on Paper, Chi’ Contemporary Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY

2007 Alexis Portilla: Evolution, Chi’ Contemporary Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY

2006 Alexis Portilla: Volumes and Incidents, A4L Gallery, New York, NY

2005 Alexis Portilla: Open Lines, Chi' Contemporary Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY

2004 Alexis Portilla, Domo Gallery, Summit, NJ

2003 Alexis Portilla: Vocabulary, Memory Gallery, Hong Kong

2000 Alexis Portilla: Paintings, Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ

1995 Alexis Portilla, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS:

2007 Bridge Art Fair, Chi’ Contemporary Fine Art, Miami, FL

1996 Two Contemporary Artists: Alexis Portilla and Ed Leonard, Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2017 In the Absence of Color: Artists Working in Black and White, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, NY
(Exhibited artists: Pablo At...