b. 1984, Miami, FL
EDUCATION
2012 M.F.A., Hunter College, New York, NY
2009 Post Baccalaureate Diploma, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Boston, MA
2007 Metafora School of the Arts: International Intensive Program, Barcelona, Spain
2006 Firenze Arti Visive: School of the Arts and Cultural Development, International Intensive Program, Florence, Italy
2006 B.A., Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 There’s a gator in the pool, Faena Art Project Room, Miami Beach, FL
2023 No soy de aquí, ni soy de allá, Club Gallery, Miami, FL
2013 C12 Emerging Artists: Nobutaka Aozaki and Alex Nuñez, Marianne Boesky East, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Paletas, HaHaus Studio, Miami, FL
TBD, Collective 62, Miami, FL
2025 Art in Embassies, United States Embassy, Panama City, Panama
Bump in the Night, Collective 62, Miami, FL
Wild, ArtServe, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2024 Archipelagic Narratives of Female Metamorphosis, Collective 62, Miami, FL
Every Woman Biennial, La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
2023 Club Mix, Club Gallery, Miami, FL
Silent Narrator/Curious Spectator, The Frank, Pembroke Pines, FL
Shared Narrative, Ca' d'Oro Art Gallery, New York, NY
Belt of Venus, Collective 62, Miami, FL
2022 Ultra Contemporary: Art Now, Visu Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
Variable Elements, Club Gallery, Miami, FL
Set/Rise, Club Gallery, Miami, FL
2021 Galerie Ground, Los Angeles, CA
Cartel Contemporary, Delray Beach, FL
2020 Sunday Painter, Missoni Baia, Miami, FL
2019 Material Nature, Deering Estate, Miami, FL
Every Woman Biennial, New York, NY
Untitled, Bonnier Gallery, Miami, FL
2018 RCS: Rocking Chair Sessions, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL
Disruptive Female, Collective 62, Miami, FL
Project Art, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, FL
Locals Only, Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami, FL
2017 Sunday Painter: Records on the Rocks, Soho Beach House, Miami Beach, FL
I will always love you, La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
She inspires, Untitled Space, New York, NY
Identity and Belonging: A Cuban Collective, Wall Street Fine Art Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
Whitney Houston Biennial, Chashama, New York, NY
Sunday Painter, Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL
I am woman, hear me roar!, Fountainhead, Miami, FL
2016 Autopia, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL
Paper Hotshots, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Blackburn 2020, New York, NY
RE-Produce, Bailey Contemporary Arts, Pompano Beach, FL
Sunday Painter, Laundromat Art Center, Miami, FL
Miami Showhouse, Junior League of Miami, The Kampong Botanical Gardens, Miami, FL
2015 DOPPELSTANDARD: on view, miLES, New York, NY
CUT N MIX, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
2014 AMERICAN QI: Alex Nuñez & Matt Sheridan, New York, NY
How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, PRISTINE GALERIE, Monterrey, N.L. México
2013 La Bienal: Here is Where We Jump, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
2012 Hunter MFA Fall 2012 Thesis, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
Testing, Heliopolis, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Capture, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY
Appearances: Provincetown Green Arts Festival, Provincetown, MA
2010 Imagine There’s No Heaven, Santurce, Puerto Rico
Death Does the Popsicle, GASP Gallery, Boston, MA
2009 Dis-Cordances/Dis -Representations, GASP Gallery, Boston, MA
2007 Naked in Your Socks, Metafora, Barcelona, Spain
PUBLIC ART COMMISSION
2026 Doral Branch Library, Miami-Dade Art in Public Places
AWARDS
2025 MIA Individual Artists Grant
2024 MIA Individual Artists Grant
2023 MIA Artist Stipend
2022 FUNDARTE Grant
2019 Artist Access Grant
2018 Wavemaker Grant: Sunday Painter: Locust Projects: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Wells Fargo
2012 C12 Fellowship Award: Hunter College
BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS
2022 Come fruta como yo, Contributor, SOUVENIR & Friends Marketplace, W Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
2014 "Ship to Shore", Contributor, Printed Matter LA Book Fair, Los Angeles, CA
"Sailors, Sirens, and Sea Monsters", Contributor
MEDIA
2016- present “Sunday Painter”, host and creator JOLT RADIO
RESIDENCY
2019 Deering Estate, Miami, FL
2017 Project Art, Hispanic Branch Library, Miami, FL
PRESS
Arte al Dia: ALEX NUÑEZ AND HER VISION OF FLORIDA'S PLAYFUL WILD, by Violeta Lozada, September 2025
Faena Journal, Issue 61, Fall 2025, There’s a Gator in the Pool
Miami New Times: The Best Art Shows to See in Miami, Douglas Markowitz, July 2025
Art Lovers Forum: Episode 46, Alex Nuñez
City Life Guru: Alex Nuñez the Color Guru, March 2025
Art Lovers Forum: Episode 8, Alex Nuñez
PROVK: FOUR CONTEMPORARY FEMALE ARTISTS YOU NEED TO KNOW, by Zoë Mann, April 2021
Lying on the Beach: Inside The Art World With Alex Nuñez
SAMSUNG: "Latino Art: Hecho with Galaxy by Latinx Artists," October 2019
HIPLATINA: "10 Latinx Murals Created for Hispanic Heritage Month You’ve Got to See," by Araceli Cruz, October 2019
Refinery 29: "15 Of Our Favorite Contemporary Artists Get Real About Making It In The Art World," by Cait Munroe, August 2019
Village Voice: "They’re Every Woman A Biennial for the Rest of Us," by R.C. BAKER, MAY 22, 2019
Artnet: "The Every Woman Biennial Is a Supportive, Salon-Style Celebration of the ‘Divine Feminine’," by Sarah Cascone, May 2019
Miami New Times: "Nearly 300 Miami Artists Will Open Their Studios to the Public This Weekend," by Josie Gulliksen
Fresh Art International: "MIAMI ART AND CULTURE PODCASTS," by Cathy Byrd, July 2018
2018 Grant Recipients — WaveMaker Grants
Gallery Gurls: "In Conversation with Alex Nuñez: Celebrating Pop and R&B Divas in her
Feminist Collages," by Jasmin Hernandez, January 2018
PROVK Magazine: "Studio Visit: Alex Nuñez," by JC Rodriguez, December 2017
Rocking Chair Sessions: Alex Nuñez with BABA Collective, RCS vol. 26 | Alex Nuñez
El Nuevo Herald: "El poder creador de las artistas locales," by Adriana Herrera, August 2017
Bullett Magazine: "The Exhibit Honoring Radical Women From Joan Didion to Cher," by Alexandra Weiss, May 2017
WWD: "The Untitled Space Art Gallery Launches Latest Exhibit: She Inspires," by Ana DeVito on April 2017
The Ladies Network: "10 Collage Artists to Insta-Stalk," by Sophia Somerville, April 2017
Observer: "A Whitney Houston-Inspired Art Show Puts Women Center Stage," by Alanna Martinez, March 2017
W Magazine: "The Whitney Houston Biennial Is Not Messing Around," by Stephanie Eckardt, March 2017
Hyperallergic: "The Greatest Biennial of All," by Jillian Steinhauer, March 2017
ART F CITY: "Finding Light (And An Ode To The Ass) In The 2017 Whitney Houston Biennial," by Emily Colucci, March 2017
Miami New Times: "Sunday Painter Turns One," February 2017
Miami New Times: "Sunday Painter," by Taylor Estape, January 2017
SOMI Magazine: "Alex Nuñez, Painting," by Donna Shelley, September 2016
Pregame Magazine: "Featured Artist: Alex Nuñez," by Ciara Pressler, May 2016
The Miami Herald: "The Kampong gets a little TLC," by Ana Veciana- Suarez, April 2016
PAPER Magazine: "11 MUST-SEE ART SHOWS OPENING THIS WEEK," by Gary Pini, October 2015
Huffington Post: "Welcome To The Radical World Of Contemporary Collage," by Priscilla Frank, October 2015
NY POST: "The one museum show Donald Trump should see this summer," by Barbara Hoffman, July 2015
I shot Kate Moss: "Photographer Series #4: alexshotkatemoss," by Zev Jonas, March 2014
Miami New Times: "MasterMind 2014 Honorable Mention: Alex Nuñez," by Carolina del Busto, February 2014
100 Painters of Tomorrow: "Jury's Picks "(Thames & Hudson 2014)
Artishock: "HERE IS WHERE WE JUMP:LA BIENAL DEL BARRIO," by Dominique
Bradbury, December 2013
ARTFORUM: "Critic's Picks: New York: La Bienal 2013: Here Is Where We Jump,” by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, November 2013
1985 ARTISTS: "Full Disclosure," by Alex Nuñez, November 2013
Hyperallergic: "Abstraction Like Fire at Gowanus Open Studios," by Daniel Larkin, October 2013
New York Times, "A Constellation of Identities, Winking and Shifting, Museo del Barrio’s ‘Bienal 2013’ Explores Self and Origins,"
by Holland Cotter, June 2013
DIARIO DE CUBA: "Arte cubano en la Bienal del Museo del Barrio de Nueva York," June 2013
Arte Informada: "Arranca la Bienal del Museo del Barrio y se aproxima la Bienal de Curitiba," June 2013
Art Nexus: La Bienal 2013, "Here Is Where We Jump, El Museo del Barrio. New York, NY," by Richard Leslie, 2013
EL MUSEO: LA BIENAL 2013, "Q & A with Raul Zamudio," June 2013
EL MUSEO: LA BIENAL 2013, "JUMP HERE, JUMP NOW, or don’t talk about it, be about it," by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, June 2013
Art & Education, "Nobutaka Aozaki & Alex Nuñez: Marianne Boesky Gallery," May 2013
HUNTER COLLEGE, "President Raab and the Hunter College Department of Art Announce Winner of Second C12 Emerging Artist Fellowship," January 2013