Alex Price is a contemporary British painter based in London. His practice explores the relationship between representation and materiality, examining how the painted mark can function simultaneously as image, gesture and substance.
Each painting emerges through a negotiation between calculation and chance. Working wet-into-wet, Price allows the medium to remain fluid and responsive, embracing the immediacy of the painting process. Gestures gather, overlap and shift, occasionally suggesting recognisable forms before dissolving into ambiguity and returning the viewer's attention to the physical surface.
Through this interplay between appearance and uncertainty, Price considers the instability of perception and the shifting relationship between what is seen and what is imagined.
Biography
Alex Price (b. 1989) lives and works in London. His paintings have been selected for the John Moores Painting Prize 2025 and the Aesthetica Art Prize 2026.
Exhibitions include Silent Disco ‘26, curated by Graham Crowley, Greystone Industries, Suffolk (2026); Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London (2026); Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2026); Five times five, Coat Collaborative, London (2026); ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, curated by Polly Morgan, Mall Galleries, London (2025); Lido Open, Lido Stores, Margate (2025); Glimpse [Solo Show], Glasshouse Contemporary, London (2025); Annual Open, Southwark Park Galleries, London (2024); Every Day We Play, Glasshouse Contemporary, London (2024); It Rose And It Fell, Terrace Gallery, London (2024).
Exhibitions
2026
Aesthetica Art Prize - Longlisted (Group), York Art Gallery, York, UK
Silent Disco ‘26 (Group), curated by Graham Crowley, Greystone Industries, Suffolk, UK
Summer Exhibition (Group), Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Drawing Biennial (Group), Drawing Room, London, UK
An exhibition of small things with big ideas (Group), White Conduit Projects, London, UK
Five times five (Group), Coat Collaborative, London, UK
2025
John Moores Painting Prize (Group), Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
ING Discerning Eye Exhibition (Group), curated by Polly Morgan, Mall Galleries, London, UK
Lido Open (Group), The Lido Stores Gallery, Margate, UK
Glimpse (Solo), Glasshouse Contemporary, London, UK
2024
Annual Open (Group), Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK
Every day we play (Group), Glasshouse Contemporary, London, UK
It rose and it fell (Group), Terrace Gallery, London, UK
Publications
2026
‘Aesthetica Art Prize’ online artist profile
‘Drawing Biennial 2026’ exhibition catalogue
2025
‘John Moores Painting Prize’ exhibition catalogue
‘Artevol: Voices from the Undefined’ exhibition catalogue
Education
2026
Correspondence Course, Turps Art School, UK
2012
MA in Film and Literature (Distinction and AHRC Scholarship), University of York, UK
2011
BA in English Literature (First Class Honours), University of York, UK
