Alex Seton: As of today... biography
Alex Seton
Alex Seton lives and works in Sydney, Australia. Across his studio practice he has investigated the relationship between the individual and society, with a particular interest in the power structures that determine our attitudes and behaviour and affect our choices. While his practice includes photography, video, augmented reality and installation, Seton is best known for marble carving, and frequently exploits our cultural assumptions about the forms of European classical sculpture to examine the underpinnings and anxieties of contemporary life.
Seton has exhibited in the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India, the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, the Canberra Public Art Festival, and Kunstenfestival Watou, Belgium, and in exhibitions at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Gertrude Contemporary, Fremantle Arts Centre, the Samstag Museum in Adelaide, and multiple regional galleries across Australia. He was the first Australian artist to win the Sovereign Asian Art Award in 2020 and was awarded the Mordant Fellowship to the American Academy in Rome in 2019. He also won the Contemporary Talents Prize at the Fondation François Schneider, Wattwiller, France in 2017.
In 2021, the Australian War Memorial awarded Seton the major Sufferings of War and Service commission, which will be launched in the Sculpture Garden in 2024. His work is held in collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Artbank, Art Gallery of South Australia, Australian War Memorial, Newcastle Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, the Danish Royal Art Collection, Copenhagen, and numerous other private and public collections.
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Alex Seton
Seton is represented by Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, Melbourne, and Singapore.