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VIKKY ALEXANDER
b. 1959, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Lives and works in Montreal, Canada
education ———
BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada 1979
selected solo and duo exhibitions ———
2023
World Light, TrepanierBaer Gallery, Calgary, AB
Between Dreaming and Living, PHOTO OP, Auckland, New Zealand
2022
Les Jardins de Versailles, Wilding Cran, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Illusions are real, Manif d’Art Biennale de Québec, VU, Québec City, QC
Between Dreaming and Living, Capture Photo Festival Billboard, Vancouver, BC
2020
A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism, Downs & Ross, NY
American Gardens, Planet Earth LLC, Woodbridge, CT
Nordic Rock, Fonderie Darling, Montréal, QC
2019
Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2018
Between Dreaming & Living, COOPER COLE, Toronto, ON
Other Fantasies, TrépanierBaer, Calgary, AB
Vertical Dreams, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Vikky Alexander: The Spoils of the Park, Canada House, London, United Kingdom
2017
Between Dreaming & Living, Chernoff Fine Art, Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver, BC
Commercial Curtain, site-specific installation commissioned by South Asian Canadian Histories Association (SACHA), Main St., Vancouver, BC
Model Suite (Sliding Door), site-specific installation commissioned by the Contemporary Art Gallery for the Yaletown–Roundhouse Canada Line Station, Vancouver, BC
Unnatural Horizon, L’Escalier, Montréal, QC
Vikky Alexander (1981–83), Downs & Ross, New York, NY
Vikky Alexander and Marie-Michèle Deschamps, Raising Cattle, Montréal, QC
2016
The Temptation of Saint Anthony, COOPER COLE, Toronto, ON
2015
Istanbul Showrooms, La Vitrine, Atelier Daigneault/Schofield, Montréal, QC
The Troublesome Window, TrépanierBaer, Calgary, AB
2014
Theatregarden Beastiarium, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Vikky Alexander: The Temptation of St. Anthony, The Apartment, Vancouver, BC
2011
Island, TrépanierBaer, Calgary, AB
2010
Houses of Glass, The Engine Room Gallery, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
Paris Showrooms, TrépanierBaer, Calgary, AB Paris Showrooms, Luz Gallery, Victoria, BC
2009
Lobby Mural, Camera condominium, Vancouver, BC
2008
Lost Horizons, TrépanierBaer, Calgary, AB
2007
Model Suites (w/ Micah Lexier), TrépanierBaer, Calgary, AB
2004
Vikky Alexander, State Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Vikky Alexander: The West Edmonton Mall Series, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC
2003
New Works, TrépanierBaer, Calgary, AB
2000
Vaux-le-Vicomte Panorama, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON Vikky Alexander, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, BC
1999
Recent Acquisitions: Vikky Alexander, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK Vaux-le-Vicomte Panorama, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1998
Garden City, TrépanierBaer, Calgary, AB
Vikky Alexander, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ON
1997
Vikky Alexander, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB Vikky Alexander, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, BC
1996
À la recherche du temps perdu, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, BC
Between Dreaming & Living, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, BC Vikky Alexander: Crystal World; New Works, TrépanierBaer, Calgary, AB
1994
Vikky Alexander and Robert Youds, Project, Vancouver, BC
Vikky Alexander and Uta Barth, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA
1993
Modern Landscapes, TrépanierBaer, Calgary, AB Vikky Alexander, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON
1992
Lake in the Woods, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Vikky Alexander (w/ Roger Bellemare), Galerie Brenda Wallace, Montréal, QC
1991
De Natura: Collaborative Works by Vikky Alexander and Ellen Brooks, travelling exhibition: Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1991; Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA, 1992; Wooster Gardens, New York, NY, 1992
1990
Vikky Alexander and James Welling, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
1989
Petrosino Park Project, for Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY Vikky Alexander, Galerie Brenda Wallace, Montréal, QC
1988
De Lege Ruimte, Brugges, Belgium
Stride Gallery, Calgary, AB
1987
CASH/Newhouse Gallery, New York, NY
ACE Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Julian Pretto, New York, NY
1986
CASH/Newhouse Gallery, New York, NY
Vikky Alexander and Ian Wallace, Coburg Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1985
Window Installation, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
CASH/Newhouse Gallery, New York, NY
Axe Neo-7, Centre d'art contemporain, Hull, QC
1984
CEPA, Metro Bus Show, Buffalo, NY
1983
Obsession, A&M Artworks, New York, NY
Obsession, Coburg Gallery, Vancouver, BC
CEPA, Buffalo, NY
1982
Family Entertainment, A&M Artworks, New York, NY
selected group ———
2024
Black and White and Everything In Between: A Monochrome Journey, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2022
Legally Blonde, Downs and Ross, New York, NY
Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Papier Art Fair, TrépanierBaer Gallery, Montréal, QC
Paradeisos, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montréal, QC
2021
True Pictures?, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany & Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
Parallax, Galerie Éphémère, Montréal, QC
True Pictures?, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany & Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
Pictures and Promises, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Everywhere We Are, Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, AB
La machine qui enseignait des airs aux oiseaux, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, QC
2020
Everywhere We Are, The Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary, AB
2019
Exposure Photography Festival: Vikky Alexander, Danny Singer, Stéphane La Rue, TrépanierBaer, Calgary, AB
2018
NADA Miami Beach, Downs and Ross
Guarded Future: Vikky Alexander, Ellen Brooks, Judy Chicago, Karen Sylvester , Downs and Ross, New York, NY
Art Toronto 2018, TrépanierBaer Gallery
2017
Narrative Art, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Genève, Swizerland Curated by Paul Bernard, Lionel Bovier and Julien Fronsacq
Making Pictures: Vikky Alexander, IAIN BAXTER&, Fred Herzog, Geoffrey James, Danny Singer, Exposure Photography Festival, TrépanierBaer Gallery, Calgary, AB
PAPIER17, TrépanierBaer Gallery, in Montréal, QC
Art Toronto 2017, Downs and Ross, Toronto, ON
Song of the Open Road: Vikky Alexander, Robert Arndt, Gerard Byrne, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, Kelly Jazvac, Kelly Lycan, Niamh O’Malley, Dawit L. Petros, Greg Staats and Lisa Tan, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2016
Aujourd’hui Encore: Vikky Alexander, Shary Boyle, Lyse Lemieux, Luanne Martineau, Meryl McMaster, Nadia Myre, Beth Stuart, Carol Wainio, TrépanierBaer Gallery, Calgary, AB
Haunting Holbein: Evan Penny, Christian Eckart, Vikky Alexander, TrépanierBaer, Calgary, AB
2015
Traces that Resemble Us, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC
White Columns Benefit, NYC, NY
Beasts, with Lorraine Simms and David Blatherwick, Vieux Presbytere, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, QC
Store/Fronts: Vikky Alexander, Josephine Meckseper and Jenny Holzer, National Gallery of Canada @ Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON
Haunting Holbein: Evan Penny, Christian Eckart, Vikky Alexander, Art Toronto – Booth C24
2014
Through the Looking Glass, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
Exposure: Photography Festival 2014, TrépanierBaer, Calgary, AB
Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart – with Julie Ault, Artist’s Space, New York, NY
Unreal, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kamloops Art Gallery, BC
Decade, Christine Klassen Gallery, Calgary, AB
Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Papier Art Fair, Montréal, Québec with TrépanierBaer
Tell It To My Heart – with Julie Ault, Museum for Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland and CultureGest, Lisbon, Portugal
Unreal, Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, BC
Paradox, Legacy Art Gallery, Victoria, BC
Passion and Panache, Western McIntosh Gallery, London, ON
2012
Builders, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
Collector’s Choice, Winchester Modern, Victoria, BC
Cut & Paste: An Exhibition of Canadian Collages, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
c.1983 Part II, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Untrue North, Yukon Art Centre, Whitehorse, YK
Street Life: The City As Muse, Museum of Contemporary Art, Calgary, AB
2011
You Would, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York City, NY
The Last Frontier, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS
Unreal, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2009
Heartland, Toronto International Art Fair, curated by Jeffrey Spalding, Toronto, ON
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts: A Celebration of Art, Architecture and Design TrépanierBaer, Calgary, AB
Living Room, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
2008
SCOPE Art Fair, Miami, Florida with TrépanierBaer
Let Me Be Your Mirror, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SA
The Tree: From the Sublime to the Social, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Toronto International Art Fair (TrépanierBaer), Toronto, ON
SCOPE Miami, TrépanierBaer Booth, Miami, FL
I Have (no) Issues, Lawrence Eng Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2006
75 Years of Collecting: The Road to Utopia, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Found in Pop: 6 Artists, TrépanierBaer Gallery, Calgary, AB
2005
Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists, MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Collection Pierre Huber, Le Musee canonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Switzerland
SCOPE Art Fair, New York, NY
From New Image to New Wave: Legacy of NSCAD in the Seventies, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS
20 Years of Contemporary Art, Stride Gallery, Calgary, AB
Mirror, Mirror, Canadian Glass and Clay Gallery, Waterloo, ON
2004
State Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Toronto Art Fair, Toronto, ON
Vancouver Art Gallery Benefit Auction, Vancouver, BC
Contemporary Art Gallery Benefit Auction, Vancouver, BC
Presentation House Art Gallery Benefit Auction, Vancouver, BC
2003
Toronto International Art Fair (TrépanierBaer), Toronto, ON
Drawing on Architecture, Atelier Gallery, curated by Patrik Andersson, Vancouver, BC
2002
Show & Tell, Group Show, Calgary, AB
Toronto International Art Fair, (Trépanier Baer), Toronto, ON
Supporting Roles: Photo-based work of the 1990’s, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK
This Place, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Design Benefit, Ontario College of Art, Toronto, ON
2001
Photo Roman, Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, AB
Group Exhibition, TrépanierBaer, Calgary, AB
2000
London Regional Art Museum, The Single Tree, London, ON
With the Grain: Contemporary Panel Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, NY, and at Stamford, CT, curated by Roni Feinstein
PastFutureTense, Winnipeg Art Gallery & Vancouver Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, Vancouver, BC, curated by Bruce Ferguson and Gary Dufour
The Experience of Landscape, Whitney Museum of American Art, Nassau Street, New York, NY, curated by Karl Willers
Towards a History of the Found Object, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, curated by Bruce Grenville
In the Beginning, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, curated by Bill Radawec
1989
Hybrid Neutral, travelling show curated by Collins and Milazzo, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY and VA Commonwealth University, curated by Jimmy de Sana
1988
Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland
ACE Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Cultural Participation, an installation by Group Material at DIA Art Foundation, New York, NY
Fabrications, Harvard University, Boston, MS, curated by Anne Hoy
Mutations, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
Media Post Media, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Collins & Milazzo
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ON
Sequence(Con)Sequence: Photographic Multiples of the Eighties, Bard College, NY, curated by Julia Ballerini
1987
Material Fictions, 49th Parallel, New York, NY, curated by France Morin
Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL
New Territories in Art: Europe-America, Rome, Italy, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva and Annina Nosei
The Art of the Real, Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland (also at De Appel, Amsterdam, Lyon)
The Castle, an installation by Group Material at Documenta 8, Kassel, West Germany
Spatial F/X, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
Art since1984, Nexus, Atlanta, GA
1986
Arts and Leisure, The Kitchen, New York, NY, curated by Group Material
CASH/Newhouse Gallery, New York, NY
New New York, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
1985
Castelli Uptown, New York, NY
303 Gallery, New York, NY
Seduction: Working Photographs, White Columns, NY, curated by Marvin Heiferman
1984
The New Capital, White Columns, NY, curated by Collins & Milazzo
The Stolen Image and its Uses, Lightworks, Syracuse, NY, curated by Abigail Solomon Godeau
1982
Resource Material, Bard College, Annandale, NY, curated by Stephen Frailey
awards and grants———
2022
Civitella Ranieri Visual Arts Fellow, Umbria, Italy
2017
Long-listed for the Scotiabank Photography Award
2009
La Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France, 2 month studio residency
2004
Canada Council Established Artist’s Grant
1996
BC cultural Award in Visual arts
1995
Canada Council Paris Studio Residency, Paris, France
British Columbia Cultural Award in Visual Arts
1992
Artist-in-Residence Program, LightWorks, Syracuse, February
1991
Canada Council Visual Arts Grant, Type B
1990
Ontario Ministry of Culture & Communication "Arts Abroad"
London Life "Young Contemporaries" Purchase Award
1989
Canada Council Visual Arts Grant, Type B
1987
Canada Council Visual Arts Grant, Type B
1985
Canada Council Projects Grant
1984
Canada Council Visual Arts Grant, Type B
1983
Canada Council Visual Arts Grant, Type B
1982
Ontario Arts Council, Photography Grant, Type B
collections———
Air Canada
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The Apartment, Vancouver, British Columbia
British Gas Corp., London, England
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
Capital Group, Los Angeles CA
Claridge Inc., Montréal, Quebec
Concordia University Collection, Montreal, Quebec
Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
Goldman Sachs Ltd., Toronto, Ontario and New York, New York
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Hammer Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Household Finance Corporation, Toronto, Ontario
International Centre for Photography, New York, New York
Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Light Work Collection, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
London Life Insurance, London, Ontario
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, Vancouver, British Columbia
Museum of Contermporary Art, Los Angeles, California
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
New School for Social Research, New York, New York
Nickel Arts Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Osler Hoskins Harcourt, Ottawa, Ontario
PepsiCo. Canada Ltd., Montreal, Quebec
Polaroid Corporation, Rochester, New York
Progressive Corporation, Ohio
Prudential Insurance Co., Newark, New Jersey
Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto, Ontario
Smith College Art Museum, Northhampton, MA
Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, British Columbia
The Long Group, Toronto, Ontario
The New School for Social Research, New York, NY
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
Willis Corroon Corp.
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Various Private Collections in Canada, Europe and the United States
published writing & artist’s projects ———
2013
Capture 1.0, photo festival catalogue, writing on Laura Dutton, Peer to peer
2010
Sonic Youth: Sensational Fix, Edited by Roland Groenenboom.
2009
Grotto Star, artist’s book, 25 pages, Flask Publications
1993
Absolut Vodka Benefit Ad, American Photographer, May 1993
1987
"Vertical Dreams", C Magazine, No. 12, 1987
1985
Artist's Statement, Rear Window exhibition companion, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1984
"Canada/New York," Review, Vanguard, Summer 1984, p. 36
1980-81
“Design Office” with Kim Gordon
catalogues———
Objects of Desire Photography and the Language of Advertising, LACMA, Delmonico Books, Rebecca Morse, 2022
Éphémère Forever 20 ans de la Fonderie Darling, Fonderie Darling, Caroline Andrieux, Vincent Bonin, 2022
Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty, Vancouver Art Gallery, Figure 1 Publishing, with essays by Daina Augautis, Vincent Bonin, Leah Pires and Nancy Tousley, 2019
Vikky Alexander: The Spoils of the Park, Canada House, London, United Kingdom, 2018, essay by Annabel Osberg
Paradox, Legacy Art Gallery, Victoria, BC., Mary Jo Hughes, 2013
Builders: Canadian Biennial 2012, National Gallery of Canada, with essays by Jonathan Shaughnessy, Ann Thomas, Christine Lalond, Andrea Kunard, Heather Anderson, 2012
Let Me Be Your Mirror, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, 2008
If Walls Had Ears: International Art 1984-2004, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Edna Van Duyn, ed., 2006
Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists, MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium and Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver, Dieter Roelstraete and Scott Watson ed., 2005
Ritual and Religion, Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Syracuse University, NY., essay by Darina Miller Parmenter, 2002
Photo Roman, Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, AB, essay by Joanne Marion, 2002
The Single Tree, London Regional Art Museum, London, Ontario, 2000
Vikky Alexander: Vaux-le-Vicomte Panorama, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, essay by Ian Wallace, 1999
Vancouver Perspectives, Vancouver Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan, Greg Bellerby ed., 1996
Beneath the Paving Stones, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia,
curated by Robert Kleyn, 1994
Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario, Ihor Holubizky, 1993
Reflecting Paradise Taejon, Korea, 1993 Jeffrey Spalding ed., 1993
Contact Sheet #74, Light Work, Syracuse, New York, 1992 , Jeffrey Hoone
Experience of Landscape, Whitney Museum Downtown, New York, New York, Karl Willers, 1992
Wasteland, Fotographie Biennale Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Bas Vroege, 1992
Practising Beauty, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, April, Ihor Holubiszky, 1991
Cruciformed, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, David Rubin, 1991
Un-natural Traces, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England, Carol Brown and Bruce Ferguson, 1991
London Life Young Contemporaries, London Regional Art Gallery, London, England, Peter Day, 1990
Vikky Alexander: Glass (Not) Sculpture, Bruce Ferguson, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, May 1990
Between Traditions & Oblivions: PastFutureTense, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, curated by Gary Dufour, 1990
PastFutureTense, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, September 1990, Bruce Ferguson
With the Grain, March 1990 , Roni Feinstein
Towards a History of the Found Object, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, January, 1990
Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? Hyde Collection, Glenn's Falls, New York, Dan Cameron, 1991
Hybrid Neutral, ICI, New York, New York, essay by Collins and Milazzo, 1989Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, BC
Media Post Media, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, New York, Collins and Milazzo, 1988
Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, Emerson Gallery, New York, New York, Andy Grundberg and Jerry Saltz, 1988
Stride Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Brian Wallis, 1988
Experience of Landscape, Whitney Museum Downtown, New York, New York, Karl Willers, 1988
Sequence (con) Sequence, Bard College, Annandale, New York, Julia Ballerini, 1988
Reconnaissance, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, introduction by Daina Augaitus, 1987
Perverted by Language, Hillwood Art Gallery, LIU, New York, New York, Robert Nickas, 1987
Material Fictions, 49th Parallel, New York, New York, essay by Ron Jones, 1987
The Art of the Real, Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland, Robert Nickas, 1987
New Territories, Oliva, Rome, Italy, Bonito Achille, 1987
Arts and Leisure, The Kitchen Group Material, New York, New York, 1986
Rear Window, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1985
Appearing, Mt. St. Vincent University, Halifax, Canada, Bruce Ferguson, 1983
bibliography———
2024
Bassnett, Sarah, & Parsons, Sarah “Photography in Canada, 1839-1989” Art Canada Institute
2021
Campbell, James, “Vikky Alexander: Nordic Rock” Ciel Variable #116, Winter 2021, p. 84
2020
Sinkewicz, Alison, “Reflections of Desire: Vikky Alexander,” Bomb Magazine, April 13, 2020, https://bombmagazine.org/articles/reflections-of-desire-vikky-alexander-interviewed/
Andrieux, Caroline, “Vikky Alexander, Nordic Rock à la Fonderie Darling,”
Revue Point Contemporain, #16, mars, avril, mai, 2020,
http://pointcontemporain.com/vikky-alexander-nordic-rock-fonderie-darling-montreal-canada/
Laurence, Robin, “Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty at Vancouver Art Gallery,” Border Crossings Magazine, Vol 38 No 4 Issue 152, pp. 134-135
Blanchette, Manon, “Métaphore des matières: Noordic Rock de Vikky Alexander”, Vie Des Arts, #260 Vol. LXV, Fall 2020, pp. 63-65.
2019
Irvine, Karina, “Vikky Alexander’s ‘Extreme Beauty’ Is an Escapist Fantasy to Be Bought and Sold,” Frieze Magazine, December 12, 2019, https://frieze.com/article/vikky-alexanders-extreme-beauty-escapist-fantasy-be-bought-and-sold
Hosein, Lise, “A retrospective can be the culmination of an art career. But for Vikky Alexander, it’s a beginning,” CBC Arts, October 29, 2019, https://bit.ly/3eMuz80
Brackett, Donald Brackett, “ Eye of the Beholder: The Extremity of Vikky Alexander,” Critics at Large, September 7, 2019, https://bit.ly/2xVKbW1
Jow, Tiffany, “ Vikky Alexander: Artificial Intelligence,” Gray Magazine, Issue 46, June 2019, pp. 90-95
Abel-Hirsch, Hannah, “Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty,” British Journal of Photography, July 8, 2019, https://www.bjp-online.com/2019/07/extreme-beauty/
“Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty,” Galleries West, July 19, 2019
https://www.gallerieswest.ca/events/vikky-alexander-extreme-beauty/
Wilkinson, Jayne, “Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty,” Canadian Art, Summer 2019
“Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty,” Vancouver Art Gallery Newsletter, Summer, Issue 50, pp. 12-13
Osberg, Annabel, “Vikky Alexander – Vertical Dreams,” Artillery Magazine,
January 2,2019, https://artillerymag.com/vikky-alexander/
2018
Rynor, Becky, “ Framed reflections: An Interview with Vikky Alexander,”
National Gallery of Canada Magazine, December 19, 2018
https://www.gallery.ca/magazine/artists/interviews/framed-reflections-an-interview-with-vikky-alexander
Wheless, Avery, “ Imaginary Worlds,” Artillery Magazine, November 28, 2018, https://artillerymag.com/imaginary-worlds/?fbclid=IwAR3ZGa7-ScvA9GetIQxnj8rLaBX3H_Zugin3A2jAk4Vqf9STWKPpngj09Uc
Tousley, Nancy, “ Vikky Alexander: Other Fantasies,” Border Crossings Magazine, Volume 37 No 3 Issue 147, pp.146-147
Sorrell, Lindsay, “Vikky Alexander,”Akimbo Blog, May 2, 2018,
http://www.akimbo.ca/akimblog/?id=1354
Sandals, Leah, “The Many Lives of Vikky Alexander,” Canadian Art Online, April 16, 2018, https://canadianart.ca/features/vikky-alexander-interview/
Art Viewer, “Vikky Alexander: Between Living and Dreaming,” April 1, 2018,
http://artviewer.org/vikky-alexander-at-cooper-cole/
2017
Cole, Travis, “The Dark Arts Residency at the Banff Centre,” InStudio Magazine, December 14, 2017
Campbell, James D., “Vikky Alexander: Unnatural Horizon,” WhiteHot Magazine, January 2018, https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/alexander-unnatural-horizon-l-escalier/3870
Kron, Cat, “What happens to copy as it ages?” Artforum, May 2017
Smith, Janet, “Vancouver female photo-art masters get the nod in Scotiabank Photography Award longlist,” Georgia Strait, February 7, 2017, http://www.straight.com/arts/866216/vancouver-female-photo-art-masters-get-nod-scotiabank-photography-award-longlist
Siebert, Amanda, Seeking new perspectives: Women break ground at the 2017 Capture Photography Festival, Georgia Strait, March 29, 2017, http://www.straight.com/arts/887436/seeking-new-perspectives-women-break-ground-2017-capture-photography-festival
Gopnik, Blake, “Does Vikky Alexander, a Canadian, Have to Make Canadian Art?,” Art Net, February 14, 2017, https://news.artnet.com/opinion/vikky-alexander-downs-ross-857714
2016
Osberg, Annabel, “ A Room Is a Cage, The World a Zoo in the Collages of Vikky Alexander,” Huffinton Post, http://huffingtonpost.com /annabel-osberg/the-collages-of-vikky-alexander_b_5907910.html
2015
Rhodes, Ric, Haunting Holbein: Vikky Alexander, Christian Eckart, Evan Penny, essay written to accompany eponymous exhibition held at Art Toronto (2015) and at TrépanierBaer (2016)
Zimonjic, Peter. “Gen X Goes to the Mall: Store/Fronts at MOCCA," National Gallery of Canada Magazine, January 27, 2015, http://www.ngcmagazine.ca/exhibitions/gen-x-goes-to-the-mall-store-fronts-at-mocca
“Vikky Alexander and Rochelle Goldberg at The Apartment, Vancouver,” Mousse Magazine Italy, January 13, 2015, http://moussemagazine.it/alexander-goldberg-theapartment/
Interview with Brainard Carey of the Museum of Nonvisible Art at Yale Radio, December 14, 2015, http://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/vikky-alexander/
2014
Osberg, Annabel. “A Room Is a Cage, The World a Zoo in the Collages of Vikky Alexander” Huffington Post, September, 2014
2012
Hacking, Juliet. Photography The Whole Story, Thames and Hudson/Prestel
Pakasaar, Helga. “C.1983”, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver
Laurence, Robin. “ Cut and Paste is a smart and visually engaging collage exhibit.” The Straight, Vancouver, June 5th, 2012
“An Interview with Vikky Alexander,” Here and Elsewhere, May 15th, 2012 www.hereelsewhere.com/see/vikky-alexander/
Griffin, Kevin. “Exhibition follows photography’s rise in ‘80’s” The Vancouver Sun, April 7th, 2012. Review of C.1983 Part II at Presentation House Gallery; image of St. Sebastien by Vikky Alexander
2010
Busch, Jes. “Vikky Alexander: Layers of Reflection,” Side St. Review, Winter 2010, pp. 54-61
Tousley, Nancy. "Shiny reflections on a capitalist society," Calgary Herald, May 6th, 2010
2009
"Picture-perfect finish to construction of Intracorp's Camera," Vancouver Sun, April 25, 2009
2008
Anderson, Jack, "Messages reflected in work of artists," Regina Leader-Post, April 3,2008
2007
Tousley, Nancy, "Snakes in the Garden." Calgary Herald, March 4, 2007
2006
Wiarda, Andrea. “Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists”, Flash Art, March/April 2006
Burnham, Clint. “Vancouver artists on display in Belgium”, Vancouver Sun, Feb.25, 2006
R.M.Vaughan. “Antwerp Diary”, Canadian Art, Summer 2006
Pemberton, Kim. “We Spread out to enjoy a Millionaire’s Playthings”, Vancouver Sun, Feb.11. L9, 2006
2005
O’Brian, Amy. “Vancouver artists make waves around the world”, Vancouver Sun, Dec.17 L9
2004
Laurence, Robin. “Alexander Alludes to Ideal”, Georgia Strait, Nov.25 – Dec.2, 2004
Dault, Julie. “Nova Scotia’s Gallery Gives and Receives”, National Post, Dec.16, 2004
2003
“Jan Tumlir Talks to James Welling”, ArtForum, April 2003, pp. 216-217
Tousley, Nancy. “Images of Desire”, Calgary Herald, April 19, 2003, p. ES7
2000
Laurence, Robin. "New Views of Rooms with a View", Georgia Straight, November 9, 2000, p. 68
“Alexander Alludes to Ideal”, Georgia Straight, November 25 – December 2, 2004, p. 64
O'Brian, Melanie. "Vikky Alexander", Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver
Scott, Michael. " Room full of dreams", Vancouver Sun, Sunday, October 8, 2000, p. D20
1999
Laurence, Robin. "The Advantage of Being Vikky", Canadian Art, Spring 1999, pp. 62-65
Long, Timothy. "Recent Acqusitions: Vikky Alexander", Vista, March/April/May, 1999
Scott, Michael. "Garden of distortions", Vancouver Sun, Monday, February 8, 1999, B8, 10
Wallace, Ian. "Vikky Alexander: The Mirage of the Sublime", Vikky Alexander: Vaux-Le-Vicomte Panorama, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 1999, pp. 19-28
1998
Pakasaar, Helga. "Vikky Alexander", AGW Quarterly, Winter 1998/99
Mallon, Matthew. "All Girls School", Western Living, Winter 1998, pp. 14-17,
Tousely, Nancy. "Viewer offered artificial world", Calgary Herald, Saturday, February 28, 1998
1997
Bellerby, Greg, "Foreward", Vancover Perspectives, catalogue. p.6
"Where do we live....", Canadian Art, Spring 1997, p. 25
Raczka, Robert. Environments, exhibition brochure, Pittsburgh Centre for the Arts, 1997
Laurence, Robin. "Show's contributor's draw the line on graphic question", Vancouver Sun, 1997
Lin, Mun-Lee. Vancouver Perspectives, catalogue foreward, p. 4, 1997
1996
Laurence, Robin. "A la recherche du temps perdu", Georgia Straight, March 21-28, 1996
"Between Dreaming and Living", Georgia Straight, December 2-9, 1996
"Retrospective slinks between real and dreamed worlds", Georgia Straight, December 5-12, 1996
"Postcards and Paris Scenes Manipulate Perceived Realities, Georgia Straight, March 21-28, 1996
1996
Hurtig, Annette. "The Culture of Nature", Art and its Practices (An Investigation of Contemporary Art), Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamoops, BC, 1996
Tousley, Nancy. "Reviews: Photo exhibition has a Las Vegas shimmer," Calgary Herald, February, 1996
Rimmer, Kate. Reviews: Crystal Clear, Fast forward, Calgary Herald, 1996
1995
Rubin, David. "It's Only Rock and Roll", Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
1994
Feinstein, Roni. "Report from Toronto", Art in America, July 1994
1993
Absolut Vodka Benefit Ad, American Photographer, May 1993
Hagen, Charles. "Commodity Image", New York Times, May 1993
1993
Hartshorn, Willis. Commodity Image, exhibition brochure, International Centre of Photography, Midtown, New York, 1993
Holubizky, Igor. "Vikky Alexander", exhibition companion, Mercer Union, Toronto, 1993
Laurence, Robin. "Modern Conventions Defied", Vancouver Sun, Saturday review, July 31, 1993
Watson, Petra. "Reviews", Border Crossings, Summer 1993
Tousley, Nancy. "Vikky Alexander: Modern Landscapes", Canadian Art, Fall
"Spectacle of consumerism revealed in Modern Landscapes"", Calgary Herald, March 1993
Pauls, Naomi. "Profile", Georgia Strait, August 1993
Kleyn, Robert. "Beneath the Paving Stones", Beneath the Paving Stones, catalogue essay, pp. 53-64, 1993
Shaw, Nancy and Robertson, Lisa. "A Sunday Drive", Beneath the Paving Stones, catalogue essay, pp. 5-16, 1993
1992
Druckery, Tim. "From Wasteland to Toxicity: Rediscovering Nature as Information", Wasteland: Landscape from Now On, pp. 25-31
Dufour, Gary. "An Always Absent Original", Vancouver Art Gallery, May 1992 Gierstberg, Frits and Vroege, Bas, "Introduction", Wasteland: Landscape from Now On, pp.3-6
Graff, Jan. "empty sites", Wasteland: Landscape from Now On, pp. 17-22
Hagen, Charles. "Ellen Brooks & Vikky Alexander Camera Cut-ups", Interview, April 1992
"Fast Forward", Canadian Art, Volume 9, Number 1, Spring/March 1992
Hoone, Jeffrey. "Vikky Alexander", Light Works grants catalogue, Syracuse, New York
Jenkins, Steven. "Secondhand Land", Artweek, April 23, 1992
Laurence, Robin. "Arcadia/Utopia", Vancouver Sun, July 31, 1992
Lemaire, Ton. "between wilderness and wasteland", Wasteland: Landscape from Now On, pp. 9-14
Read, Michael. Friends of Photography Newsletter, March 1992
1992
Tolnick, Judith. "Frame Up ! An Introduction", Frame Up!, exhibition companion, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Complex, University of Rhode Island
Tousley, Nancy. "Fast Foreward", Canadian Art, Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 1992
1991
Ferguson, Bruce. "Un-Natural Acts and Tongue Ties, Un-Natural Traces: Contemporary Art from Canada, Barbican Art Gallery, London, pp. 11-15
Solomon-Godeau, Abigail. "Photography at the Dock", Minnesota Press, 1991
1990
Aquin, Stephanie. "faux et usage de Faux", Voir, april 30, 1990
Barrett, Terry. "Criticizing Photographs", Mayfield Press, 1990
Dufour, Gary. "Between Traaditions and Oblivions", Pastfuturetense , catalogue essay, pp. 24-30, illustration, p. 31, Vancouver Art Gallery, Winnipeg Art Galery
Feinstein, Roni. "With the Grain", With the Grain, catalogue essay, Whitney Museum of American Art @ Phillip Morris
1990
Ferguson, Bruce. "Pastfuturetense: or What is a Meta For?", Pastfuturetense, catalogue essay, pp. 6-13, Vancouver Art Gallery, Winnipeg Art Gallery
"Vikky Alexander: Glass (Not) Sculpture", exhibition companion, Kunsthalle Bern, 1990
1989
Duncan, Ann. " Victoria artist's wry urban images a hit in New York", The Gazette, Montreal, December 23, 1989
"LMCC Present Park Spruces Up" Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 1989
Willers, Karl Emil. "The Experience of Landscape: Three Decades of Sculpture", exhibition companion, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown, New York
1988
Hoy, Anne. Fabrications, Abbeville Press, 1988
"International Style", New Observations, Issue #55, 1988
Salvioni, Daniela. "Reviews", Flash Art, May/June 1988
Schwendenwein, Jude. "Reviews", Artscribe, June 1988
Tousley, Nancy. "Art gallery is represented as a designer showroom", Calgary Herald, May 12, 1988
"Profiles", Canadian Art, September 1988
Wallis, Brian, "Vikky Alexander", catalogue essay, Stride Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
1987
Augaitus, Daina, Reconnaissance", Banff, Walter Phillips Gallery
Braff, Phyllis. "Language Becomes the Medium of the Message", New York Times, March 1, 1987
Cameron, Dan. "Post-Feminism", Flash Art, Feb/March 1987
Campitelli, Maria. "Reviews", Juliet Art Magazine, Oct/Nov 1987
Ess, Barbara and Branca, Glenn, Editors. Thought Objects, JAA #7, 1987
Handy, Ellen. "Reviews", Arts Magazine, May 1987
Harper, Glenn. "Reviews", Art Paper, February 1987
Levin, Kim. "Reviews", Village Voice, February, 1987
Linker, Kate. "Reviews", Artforum, Summer 1987
Lipson, Karin. "A few words on art", Newsday, February 20, 1987
Stretch, Bonnie Barrett. "Contemporary Photography", Art & Auction, May 1987 "Vertical Dreams", C Magazine, No 12, 1987
1986
Cohrs, Timothy. "Reviews", Arts Magazine, December 1986
Collins and Milazzo. "Tropical Codes", Kunstforum, March/May 1986
Decter, Joshua. "Reviews", Arts Magazine, March 1986
Hagen, Charles. "Reviews", Artforum, April 1986
Handy, Ellen. "Reviews", Arts Magazine, March 1986
"Reviews", Arts Magazine, September 1986
Serafin, Bruce. "Reviews", C Magazine, #10, Summer 1986
"New Faces", American Photographer, February 1986
1985
Davis, Douglas."Seeing isn't Believing", Newsweek, June 3, 1985
Indiana, Gary. "Voice Pick", Village Voice, June 11, 1985
Linker, Kate. "Reviews", Artforum, March 1985
Robinson, Walter. "Reviews", Art in America, April 1985
Wallis, Brian. "News from Nowhere", New Museum of Contemporary Art, statement, September 1985
1984
CEPA Newsletter, February 1984
Solomon-Godeau, Abigail. "Winning the Game When the Rules Have Been Changed: Art Photography and Postmodernism", New Mexico Studies in the fine Arts 7 (1983), reprinted in, Screen, Vol 25, No 6, Nov/Dec 1984
"Canada/New York"., Review, Vanguard, Summer 1984, p.36
1983
CEPA Newsletter, September 1983
Duncan, Anne. "Profile", Montreal Gazette, Dec. 23, 1983
Lichtenstein, Therese. "Reviews", ArtsMagazine, February 1983
"Reviews", Arts Magazine, March 1983
1982
Grundberg, Andy. "In Today's Photography, Imitation Isn't "Always Flattery", New York Times, Sunday, November 24, 1982
Solomon-Godeau, Abigail. "Playing in the Fields of the Image", Afterimage, Summer 1982
1981
Graham, Dan. "Signs", Artforum, April 1981