Works
  • Alex Dordoy, To Dust, I Guess, 2024
    Alex Dordoy
    To Dust, I Guess, 2024
    Acrylic on canvas
    200 x 130 cm | 78 3/4 x 51 1/8 in
  • An acrylic on canvas depicting a small tree tied to a wooden plank against a blue and pink sky.
    Alex Dordoy
    Europe(s), 2018
    Acrylic on canvas
    90 x 60 cm | 35 3/8 x 23 5/8 in
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  • Alex Dordoy, Evian-les-Bains (magenta and cobalt), 2018
    Alex Dordoy
    Evian-les-Bains (magenta and cobalt), 2018
    Acrylic on canvas
    200 x 140 cm | 78 3/4 x 55 1/8 in (each)
  • An acrylic on canvas depicting an office scene with an American flag hanging on the wall.
    Alex Dordoy
    The Man in the White Suit V & VI, 2014
    Acrylic on canvas, two parts
    200 x 240 cm | 78.7 x 94.5 in
    200 x 90 cm | 78.7 x 35.4 in
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  • painted image on canvas depicting a brightly colored forest, with hues of red, green, and pink
    Alex Dordoy
    Kindling the March Wind, 2022
    Acrylic on canvas with aluminium frame
    200 x 140 cm | 78 3/4 x 55 1/8 in
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  • painted image on canvas of a seascape with a tall mountainous background. gray clouds cover the sky above the scene.
    Alex Dordoy
    A Few Careless Words, 2022
    Acrylic on canvas with aluminium frame
    170 x 260 cm | 66 7/8 x 102 3/8 in
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  • An acrylic on canvas depicting a shadowy landscape featuring a human-shaped statue, trees, and a body of water that appears to be a pond.
    Alex Dordoy
    Young Poacher, 2020
    Acrylic on canvas with aluminum frame
    75 x 50 cm | 29 1/2 x 19 3/4 in
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  • An acrylic on canvas depicting a plant sitting on a red floor before a large Chinese divider boasting an assortment of traditional illustrations of flora and fauna.
    Alex Dordoy
    Nature Nurture, 2019
    Acrylic on canvas
    140 x 200 cm | 55 1/8 x 78 3/4 in
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  • An acrylic on canvas of a landscape featuring mountains, water, and trees with subversive text that reads "EGO"
    Alex Dordoy
    Autumns' Ego, 2018
    Acrylic on canvas
    200 x 140 cm | 78 3/4 x 55 1/8 in
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Biography

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.

Recent solo exhibitions include The Flowers and the Hours, GRIMM, New York, NY (US); Prepositions, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (UK); Answering Machine, GRIMM, London (UK); Monster, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL); The Weather Channel, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (UK); Ruin is Rune, GRIMM, New York, NY (US); Summers’ Ego, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL); From Svalbard Soil, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (UK); Model T, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (UK); Sleepwalker, De Ateliers Debut Series, Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL); and Persitencebeatsresistance, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (UK).

Dordoy’s work can be found in many private collections, as well as the collections of AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL); The David and Indrė Roberts Collection, London (UK); THE EKARD COLLECTION; KRC Art Collection, Voorschoten (NL); Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL); National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh (UK); Start Museum, Shanghai (CN) among others. 

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