Alex Puz American, b. 1989

Alex Puz (b. 1989, Long Beach, CA) is a painter based in Baltimore, MD. His painting practice centers on color study, optics, and linear abstractions to explore the gap between emotion and cognition. Through a process-oriented approach, Puz systematizes color and line to create dense, ornate chromatic fields.

Puz holds a BFA in Studio Art from CUNY Hunter College (’14) and an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale School of Art (’22). He was a 2017 Rema Hot Mann Foundation Nominee and a 2022 recipient of the YPEI Teaching Fellowship. In 2023-24, he was a Cohort 05 Studio Fellow at Titus Kaphar's NXTHVN fellowship in New Haven, CT. Puz will also participate in the 2024-25 edition of the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program.

His work has been written about in Vogue Magazine, The Yale Daily News, liveart.io, and is featured in ArtMaze Magazine. Puz's work is part of the collections of JP Morgan Chase and Yale Health. Selected exhibitions include "Double Down" at The Campus, "Vibrant Matters" at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery (NYC), "No Light Without Shadows" at Thierry Goldberg (NYC), "Élan Vital" at MoCA CT, "Spirit Rift" at Underdonk (NYC), and "Forgetting is Remembering" in Seoul, Korea, with Gallery Simon.