Born and raised in Miami, Alex Nuñez is a Cuban-American mixed-media painter whose vibrant practice explores cultural identity and material experimentation. She holds an MFA from Hunter College (CUNY) and was awarded the C12 Emerging Artist Fellowship, culminating in a solo exhibition at Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York. Her 2022 solo show No soy de aquí, ni soy de allá was presented at Club Gallery in Miami. Nuñez’s work has been exhibited at El Museo del Barrio (New York). She is the host and producer of Sunday Painter on Jolt Radio, now in its eighth year of production, and a recipient of The Locust Projects’ Wavemaker Grant. Her work and projects have been featured in The New York Times, Artforum, CNN, Art Nexus, Hyperallergic, Huffington Post, W Magazine, and The Observer. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Collective 62 in Miami. She is currently working with Art in Public Places on her first public art commission. Her solo exhibition, There’s a Gator in the Pool, is on view at Faena Art Project Room.