Alex Israel was born on October 1982 and is an American multimedia artist, writer, and designer from Los Angeles.
13 Facts About Alex Israel
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Alex Israel's work includes large, colorful airbrushed paintings of abstract gradients and Los Angeles skies, his self-portraits, painted on shaped fiberglass panels, and multimedia installations constructed from movie-house props.
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The son of a real estate developer, Israel was born at UCLA Medical Center.
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Alex Israel attended Harvard-Westlake School in Studio City before completing his undergraduate studies at Yale University in 2003.
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Alex Israel's first summer back from Yale, he worked part-time as an intern for the conceptual artist John Baldessari, and for Ann Goldstein, who was a curator at MOCA at the time.
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Early in his career, Alex Israel maintained a studio at 3113 Beverly Boulevard in Filipinotown.
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Between July 2011 and May 2012, Alex Israel produced a web series called, "AS IT LAYS," in which he interviews 33 LA celebrities.
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In between screenings of video portraits, Alex Israel created three additional interviews with surprise guests Laird Hamilton, Molly Ringwald and Melanie Griffith, in front of the live audience.
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Alex Israel says that he was inspired when he found four giant replicas of the sculptures at a prop house in Hollywood a few years earlier.
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Alex Israel directed SPF-18, a feature-length teen surf film and multi-platform project, which was written by Michael Berk and released on both Netflix and the ITunes Store on September 29,2017.
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From 2010, Alex Israel designed a line of sunglasses called Freeway Eyewear, that he sold online as well as at Barneys New York and Gagosian Gallery in New York.
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In 2019, Alex Israel collaborated with German luggage maker Rimowa on creating a 20-foot-tall replica of a Rimowa roller suitcase.
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Work by Israel is included in the collections of the Moderna Museet, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, MOCA, LACMA, Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, The Jewish Museum, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, and Astrup Fearnley Museet.