How can I buy a work by Adrian Alejandro Gonzalez?

Bruno David Gallery handles the sale of available works by Adrian Alejandro Gonzalez. For prices and availability, email info@brunodavidgallery.com or call +1 314 696 2377.

Where can I see work by Adrian Alejandro Gonzalez in person?

At Bruno David Gallery, 7513 Forsyth Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63105, during public hours or by appointment.

What does Adrian Alejandro Gonzalez make?

Prints, paintings and sculptures, often collage and assemblage built from drawn, printed, painted, sculpted and found elements, that draw on Spanglish and on knockoff culture, including papier-mâché works he calls “Bobos.”

Where is Adrian Alejandro Gonzalez based?

Adrian Alejandro Gonzalez lives and works in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Has Adrian Alejandro Gonzalez had an exhibition at Bruno David Gallery?

Yes. Lonchando in the Grass (10 September to 22 October 2022); OVERVIEW_2024 (16 July to 6 September 2024) are among his exhibitions at the gallery.

Adrian Alejandro Gonzalez

Adrian Alejandro Gonzalez (born 1987) is a Chapel Hill-based artist who works across printmaking, painting, and sculpture. Born in California, he has lived in Ecuador, Puerto Rico, New York, and Florida, and his work draws on Spanglish, the hybrid of Spanish and English spoken widely in the United States. The work looks at how Spanglish meets Latin and American culture, politics, music, slang, and popular media.

Gonzalez likens the improvised word-making of Spanglish to his studio process, building collage and assemblage paintings, sculptures, and prints from drawn, printed, painted, sculpted, and found elements; Tower of Bobo (2022) stacks papier-mâché baseball caps into a six-foot column. He calls many pieces “Bobos,” a word for knockoffs and off-brand goods, and his recent work on reproduction and knockoff culture draws on Ecuadorian monigotes, papier-mâché effigies burned during New Year’s celebrations.

Gonzalez received a BFA in drawing and printmaking from the University of Central Florida in 2011 and an MFA in visual art from Washington University in St. Louis in 2021, where he was a Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2022. From 2011 to 2019 he was a master printer at Flying Horse Editions in Orlando, working with artists including Diana Al-Hadid and Toyin Ojih Odutola. He taught printmaking at the University of Florida from 2021 and is now an assistant professor of studio art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His work has been shown at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, the Harn Museum of Art, the Orlando Museum of Art, and the Print Center in Philadelphia, and featured in New American Paintings in 2023. He held a print residency at PS Marlowe in Asheville in 2024. In 2026 Wildlife Scramble, a warming hut he co-designed, was installed at The Forks in Winnipeg, and his solo exhibition Chuecos opened at Dragon Crab and Turtle in St. Louis. He first showed at Bruno David Gallery in the 2021 group exhibition Bilingual: Abstract & Figurative; his first solo exhibition there, Lonchando in the Grass (2022), was covered by Hypebeast and Ladue News, and he returned for the group exhibition OVERVIEW_2024.

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