BIOGRAPHY
(b. 1980, New York City, NY. Lives and works in the United States)
Graduated LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (Manhattan), 1999
BA Musical Composition and Performance, Wesleyan University, 2003
Alexis Gideon is an American visual artist, composer and performer, best known for his innovative animated live video operas and interdisciplinary techniques. Gideon, whose career began under the mentorship of musical legend Anthony Braxton, considers music the backbone and inspiration for all his work. Critic Alex Oliver writes, “It’s hard to know whether Gideon views [his pieces] as an occasion for the music, or whether the music is the midwife of the experience. Gesamtkunstwerk is achieved.”
As a Jewish descendent of Holocaust survivors, Gideon’s work examines alienation, subjugation, and the human condition from an inclusionary non reductive approach that strives towards transcendence and healing.
Gideon has performed and exhibited throughout the world, including at Moderna Museet Stockholm, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, and Time Zones Festival Italia. In 2013 The New Museum of Contemporary Art paired Gideon with renowned South African artist William Kentridge for a joint program.
His work is in the collection of the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, the Debra & Dennis Scholl Collection in Miami, FL, The Benter Foundation in Pittsburgh, PA as well as a number of private collections.
Gideon's work has been funded by the MAP Fund, Heinz Endowments, the Pittsburgh Foundation, Regional Arts and Culture Council of Oregon, Oudies (France), European Union (FEDER), the Languedoc-Roussillon Regional Council, Languedoc-Rousillon DRAC, and the Gard Council.
Gideon's work has been translated into French, Spanish, German, Italian and Chinese. It has been adopted into Oregon State University’s Chinese Cultural Studies curriculum and selected by the Borges Center (University of Pittsburgh) In the Arts collection. Gideon has been an art juror at the Cleveland Institute of Art, a guest artist at Carnegie Mellon University MFA Integrative Seminar, and lecturer at SUNY Stoney Brook, Kawenga Digital Arts and Culture Center (Montpellier, France), Washington State University, University of New Mexico (Albuquerque), University of Oklahoma (Tulsa), and the Portland Art Museum.
Graduated LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (Manhattan), 1999
BA Musical Composition and Performance, Wesleyan University, 2003
Alexis Gideon is an American visual artist, composer and performer, best known for his innovative animated live video operas and interdisciplinary techniques. Gideon, whose career began under the mentorship of musical legend Anthony Braxton, considers music the backbone and inspiration for all his work. Critic Alex Oliver writes, “It’s hard to know whether Gideon views [his pieces] as an occasion for the music, or whether the music is the midwife of the experience. Gesamtkunstwerk is achieved.”
As a Jewish descendent of Holocaust survivors, Gideon’s work examines alienation, subjugation, and the human condition from an inclusionary non reductive approach that strives towards transcendence and healing.
Gideon has performed and exhibited throughout the world, including at Moderna Museet Stockholm, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, and Time Zones Festival Italia. In 2013 The New Museum of Contemporary Art paired Gideon with renowned South African artist William Kentridge for a joint program.
His work is in the collection of the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, the Debra & Dennis Scholl Collection in Miami, FL, The Benter Foundation in Pittsburgh, PA as well as a number of private collections.
Gideon's work has been funded by the MAP Fund, Heinz Endowments, the Pittsburgh Foundation, Regional Arts and Culture Council of Oregon, Oudies (France), European Union (FEDER), the Languedoc-Roussillon Regional Council, Languedoc-Rousillon DRAC, and the Gard Council.
Gideon's work has been translated into French, Spanish, German, Italian and Chinese. It has been adopted into Oregon State University’s Chinese Cultural Studies curriculum and selected by the Borges Center (University of Pittsburgh) In the Arts collection. Gideon has been an art juror at the Cleveland Institute of Art, a guest artist at Carnegie Mellon University MFA Integrative Seminar, and lecturer at SUNY Stoney Brook, Kawenga Digital Arts and Culture Center (Montpellier, France), Washington State University, University of New Mexico (Albuquerque), University of Oklahoma (Tulsa), and the Portland Art Museum.
