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Alex Dordoy is a painter and sculptor who explores ideas of artificiality, nostalgia, and the role of technology in image-making. The unearthly scenes depicted in Dordoy’s paintings reference Art Nouveau advertisements and designs, awakening the symbolic potential of their imagery. The artist edits and manipulates his source imagery using Photoshop and paints the resulting compositions, returning these representations to the physical realm. Through editing and reconfiguration, the images are stripped of their previous meaning and re-contextualized as vivid moments preserved before our eyes. Some of their original aura of romanticism and nostalgia persists, contrasted by the painter’s precise, graphic rendering.
Dordoy often paints multiple versions of the same image in varying bright hues, suggesting the passing of time by means of an artificial light source. While the presence of civilization is apparent in many of his works, the figure is distinctly absent. The conspicuous lack of a protagonist or empathetic subject in Dordoy’s works implicates the viewer as a participant.
Alex Dordoy (b. 1985 in Newcastle, UK) lives and works in London (UK). He received his BFA from the Glasgow School of Art (UK) in 2007 and completed the residency program at De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL) in 2009. Dordoy’s work can be found in many private collections, as well as the collections of Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL); The Roberts Institute of Art (RIA), London (UK); THE EKARD COLLECTION; KRC Art Collection, Voorschoten (NL); Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL); Start Museum, Shanghai (CN); Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao (CN); Zabludowicz Collection, London (UK) among others.
Dordoy often paints multiple versions of the same image in varying bright hues, suggesting the passing of time by means of an artificial light source. While the presence of civilization is apparent in many of his works, the figure is distinctly absent. The conspicuous lack of a protagonist or empathetic subject in Dordoy’s works implicates the viewer as a participant.
Alex Dordoy (b. 1985 in Newcastle, UK) lives and works in London (UK). He received his BFA from the Glasgow School of Art (UK) in 2007 and completed the residency program at De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL) in 2009. Dordoy’s work can be found in many private collections, as well as the collections of Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL); The Roberts Institute of Art (RIA), London (UK); THE EKARD COLLECTION; KRC Art Collection, Voorschoten (NL); Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL); Start Museum, Shanghai (CN); Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao (CN); Zabludowicz Collection, London (UK) among others.
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b. 1985, Newcastle (UK)
Lives and works in London (UK)
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Answering Machine, GRIMM, London (UK)
Monster, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
2021
The Weather Channel, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (UK)
2020
Ruin is Rune, GRIMM, New York, NY (US)
2018
Summers' Ego, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
Solo Presentation, Frieze, GRIMM New York (US)
2017
The Moss is Dreaming, curated by Tom Morton, Blain | Southern, London (UK)
From Svalbard Soil, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (UK)
2015
Model T, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (UK)
2014
Sleepwalker, De Ateliers Debut Series, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague (NL)
Persitencebeatsresistance, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (UK)
2013
Caster and Krast Crack Autumn, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
I’d Planned a Cloud but it Took me by Surprise, ReMap4, Athens (GR)
2012
Alex Dordoy, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen (DK)
Alex Dordoy, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (UK)
2011
Upstairs at the Modern Institute, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (UK)
Demoscene, Hochstrasse 45, Berlin (with Neil Clements) (DE)
Psychopomp Counsel, De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL)
2010
Pirates, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
Solo Presentation for GRIMM, Amsterdam at Art Brussels (BE)
Young Scottish Painters, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK)
2009
Winner, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (UK)
2008
Alex Dordoy, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
Black Aspirin, the Project Rooms, Glasgow (with Neil Clements) (UK)
Solo Presentation for GRIMM, Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam (NL)
Solo Presentation for GRIMM, Art Brussels, Brussels (BE)
2007
When We Say Dive, We Mean Straight Down, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (UK)
2006
No Man’s Land, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (UK)
2005
Reasons to Worry, A405 gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles (US)
Group Exhibitions
2022
High Voltage Three, Nassima Landau, Tel Aviv (IL)
Off the Beaten Track, Gallery Baton, Seoul (SK)
2021
All Eyes | We are the collection, Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
Inaugural exhibition, GRIMM, New York, NY (US)
2020
Im Frage, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen (NL)
2019
Away in the Hill, GRIMM New York, NY (US)
2018
Doodle & Disegno, BlainSouthern, Berlin (DE)
Pop-up GRIMM, Brussels (BE)
2017
Future Eaters, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield East (AU)
2016
I still Believe in Miracles, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (UK)
What’s Up, Soho Revue and Union Club, London (UK)
Use/User/Used, Zabludowicz Collection, London (UK)
Crab Walk, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (UK)
2015
Office Space, YBCA, San Francisco (USA)
Crab Walk, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (UK)
WINTERMUTE, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
Against Automatism, Fused Space, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Fransisco (US)
Breakin’ Up Is Hard to Do, KARST, Plymouth (UK)
THE NOING UV IT, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (NL)
2014
A Merman I Should Turn to Be, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London (UK)
Group Show, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK)
2013
Does the it fit, Stephenson Works, Newcastle (UK)
Batman Electronic, Mikael Andresen, Berlin (DE)
Traces of Life, curated by Ariel Roger-Paris, Wentrup, Berlin (DE)
Remap4, Athens (GR)
2012
Recent British Painting, curated by Tom Morton, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
A House Leaves: Second Movement, The David Roberts Art Foundation, London (UK)
Art Brussels for GRIMM Gallery, Brussels (BE)
Into the Surface, Brand New Gallery, Milan (IT)
2011
Look with all Your Eyes, Look, Frith Street Gallery, London (UK)
Psychopomp Counsel, Offspring De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL)
Picasso in Paris, 1900- 1907, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
Picasso in Paris, 1900- 1907, Museu Picasso, Barcelona (SP)
2010
What You See is Where You’re at, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK)
2009
Generator Projects, Dundee (UK)
2008
New Work Scotland, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
Neil Clements/Alex Dordoy/Morag Keil, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
Autarchy, SWG3 Warehouse, Glasgow (UK)
Mamones Ready to Go!, Norma Desmond Productions, Los Angeles (US)
Art LA, Los Angeles (with The Modern Institute/Toby Webster ltd.) (US)
Hell-o from Hell-a, Norma Desmond Productions, Los Angeles (US)
2007
The Degree Show 2007, Glasgow School of Art (UK)
Natural Geographic, Norma Desmond Productions, Los Angeles (US)
2006
Panoptican Event, The Panoptican, Glasgow (UK)
Selected Collections
AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
The Roberts Institute of Art (RIA), London (UK)
THE EKARD COLLECTION
KRC Art Collection, Voorschoten (NL)
Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL)
Start Museum, Shanghai (CN)
Zabludowicz Collection, London (UK)
Lives and works in London (UK)
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Answering Machine, GRIMM, London (UK)
Monster, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
2021
The Weather Channel, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (UK)
2020
Ruin is Rune, GRIMM, New York, NY (US)
2018
Summers' Ego, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
Solo Presentation, Frieze, GRIMM New York (US)
2017
The Moss is Dreaming, curated by Tom Morton, Blain | Southern, London (UK)
From Svalbard Soil, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (UK)
2015
Model T, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (UK)
2014
Sleepwalker, De Ateliers Debut Series, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague (NL)
Persitencebeatsresistance, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (UK)
2013
Caster and Krast Crack Autumn, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
I’d Planned a Cloud but it Took me by Surprise, ReMap4, Athens (GR)
2012
Alex Dordoy, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen (DK)
Alex Dordoy, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (UK)
2011
Upstairs at the Modern Institute, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (UK)
Demoscene, Hochstrasse 45, Berlin (with Neil Clements) (DE)
Psychopomp Counsel, De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL)
2010
Pirates, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
Solo Presentation for GRIMM, Amsterdam at Art Brussels (BE)
Young Scottish Painters, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK)
2009
Winner, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (UK)
2008
Alex Dordoy, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
Black Aspirin, the Project Rooms, Glasgow (with Neil Clements) (UK)
Solo Presentation for GRIMM, Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam (NL)
Solo Presentation for GRIMM, Art Brussels, Brussels (BE)
2007
When We Say Dive, We Mean Straight Down, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (UK)
2006
No Man’s Land, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (UK)
2005
Reasons to Worry, A405 gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles (US)
Group Exhibitions
2022
High Voltage Three, Nassima Landau, Tel Aviv (IL)
Off the Beaten Track, Gallery Baton, Seoul (SK)
2021
All Eyes | We are the collection, Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
Inaugural exhibition, GRIMM, New York, NY (US)
2020
Im Frage, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen (NL)
2019
Away in the Hill, GRIMM New York, NY (US)
2018
Doodle & Disegno, BlainSouthern, Berlin (DE)
Pop-up GRIMM, Brussels (BE)
2017
Future Eaters, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield East (AU)
2016
I still Believe in Miracles, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (UK)
What’s Up, Soho Revue and Union Club, London (UK)
Use/User/Used, Zabludowicz Collection, London (UK)
Crab Walk, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (UK)
2015
Office Space, YBCA, San Francisco (USA)
Crab Walk, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (UK)
WINTERMUTE, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
Against Automatism, Fused Space, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Fransisco (US)
Breakin’ Up Is Hard to Do, KARST, Plymouth (UK)
THE NOING UV IT, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (NL)
2014
A Merman I Should Turn to Be, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London (UK)
Group Show, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK)
2013
Does the it fit, Stephenson Works, Newcastle (UK)
Batman Electronic, Mikael Andresen, Berlin (DE)
Traces of Life, curated by Ariel Roger-Paris, Wentrup, Berlin (DE)
Remap4, Athens (GR)
2012
Recent British Painting, curated by Tom Morton, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
A House Leaves: Second Movement, The David Roberts Art Foundation, London (UK)
Art Brussels for GRIMM Gallery, Brussels (BE)
Into the Surface, Brand New Gallery, Milan (IT)
2011
Look with all Your Eyes, Look, Frith Street Gallery, London (UK)
Psychopomp Counsel, Offspring De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL)
Picasso in Paris, 1900- 1907, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
Picasso in Paris, 1900- 1907, Museu Picasso, Barcelona (SP)
2010
What You See is Where You’re at, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK)
2009
Generator Projects, Dundee (UK)
2008
New Work Scotland, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
Neil Clements/Alex Dordoy/Morag Keil, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
Autarchy, SWG3 Warehouse, Glasgow (UK)
Mamones Ready to Go!, Norma Desmond Productions, Los Angeles (US)
Art LA, Los Angeles (with The Modern Institute/Toby Webster ltd.) (US)
Hell-o from Hell-a, Norma Desmond Productions, Los Angeles (US)
2007
The Degree Show 2007, Glasgow School of Art (UK)
Natural Geographic, Norma Desmond Productions, Los Angeles (US)
2006
Panoptican Event, The Panoptican, Glasgow (UK)
Selected Collections
AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
The Roberts Institute of Art (RIA), London (UK)
THE EKARD COLLECTION
KRC Art Collection, Voorschoten (NL)
Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL)
Start Museum, Shanghai (CN)
Zabludowicz Collection, London (UK)
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