1968 Received B.F.A. Degree from Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas
Received M.F.A. Degree from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas

FELLOWSHIPS
1981 National Endowment for the Arts
1984 Solomon R Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

COMMISSIONS
1992 Original artwork created for “Amerimusica” conceived by Jacques d'Amboise and Ellen Weinstein of the National Dance Institute, presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 John Alexander: Life on a Merry-Go-Round, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
2009 John Alexander, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2008 John Alexander. Drawings, Hemphill Fine Art, Washington D.C.
John Alexander. A Retrospective, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
John Alexander. New Paintings, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
John Alexander. Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
John Alexander. New Drawings, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
John Alexander. Recent Paintings, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
2007 John Alexander. New Works on Paper, Eaton Fine Art, West Palm Beach, FL
John Alexander. A Retrospective, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
2006 John Alexander, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2005 John Alexander: The Sea! The Sea! Eaton Fine Art, West Palm Beach, FL
John Alexander: Recent Observations, The Butler Institute of American Art. Youngstown, OH
2004 John Alexander, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, FL
John Alexander, Bentley, Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2003 Dishman Gallery of Art, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
JA: 35 Years of Works on Paper. Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX
JA Print Retrospective. School of Art Gallery, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA
The Ralls Collection, Washington DC
2002 Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
Pillsbury & Peters Fine Art, Dallas, Texas
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Bendley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
2001 Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, Louisiana
1999 New Monoprints, Marlborough Graphics, New York, NY
The Ralls Collection, Washington, DC
1998 Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
1997 Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
1996 Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD
Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA
1995 Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Allene Lapides Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX
1994 Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
1993 Erika Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Galeria Alfred Wild, Bogota, Colombia
Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1991 Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
1990 Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Galeria Freites, Caracas, Venezuela
Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX
1988 The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; traveled to The Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX
Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Herve Odermatt, Paris, France
1987 Marlborough Fine Art, London, Great Britain
1986 Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
F.I.A.C., Grand-Palais, Paris, France
Galerie Herve Odermatt, Paris, France
1984 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Janie C Lee Gallery, Houston, Texas
1983 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Marlborough Gallery, New York
1982 Janie C Lee Gallery, Houston, Texas
Diane Brown Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1981 Doebrick Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1980 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1978 Max Hutchinson Gallery, Houston, Texas
Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York
1976 Kornblatt Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, Texas
University Museum, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
1975 Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, Texas
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1995 Made in Texas, Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, Texas
1994 Drawing, 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Leo Castelli, New York, New York
Flowers, Babcock Galleries, New York, New York
1993 The Fine Art of Patronage: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture from Local Collections, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
The Mask In Contemporary Art, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, Texas
The Animal in Art, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
1992 On Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York
An Ode to Gardens and Flowers, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York
1991 The Eyes of Texas: Prints and Unique Works, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma; travelled to Centre for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina; Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin; and Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Expressive Drawings: European and American Art Through the Twentieth Century, New York Academy of Art, New York, New York
1990 Marlborough en Pelaires, Centre Cultural Contemporani Pelair Palma de Mallorca, Spain
The Common Wealth: Twentieth Century American Masterpieces from Virginia Collections, Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, Roanoke, Virginia
For the Preservation of Nature: The Artist's Response, Abercrombie Gallery, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana; traveled to Alice Bingham Gallery, Memphis; and Schmidt Bingham Gallery, New York, New York
Tradition and Innovation, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas
Images of Death in Contemporary Art, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconson
John Alexander, Frederick Brown, Paul Manes, Leavey Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
1989 The New Old Landscape, Museum of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Private Art/Public Visions, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington
1988 Directions and Diversities, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Amarillo to Zebra: An American Artists' Bestiary, Amarillo Art Center, Texas
Texas Art: The De Menil Collection, Richmond Hall, Houston, Texas
Fables and Fantasies - Selections from the Collection of Susan Kasen and Robert D Summer, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham. North Carolina
The 1980's: A new Generation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Visions/Revisions: Contemporary Representation, organized by Sam Hunter, Marlborough Gallery, New York
Charged! Places and Things, Sherry French Gallery, New York traveled to The Wichita Art Museum, Kansas and The National Academy of Science, Washington, D.C.
1987 Surrealism, Retretti Art Centre, Suomi, Finland
The Frederick R Weisman Collection: An International Survey, San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas
American Masters: works on Paper from The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; traveled to The Burling Library, Grinnell, Iowa; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio; and Midland Art Council, Midland, Michigan
After Pollock: Three Decades of Diversity, Iannetti Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco, California
1986 The Texas Landscape: 1900-1986, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
College of the Mainland Faculty Selects ... An Exhibition of Twelve Texas Artists, College of the Mainland, Texas City, Texas
Pasadena Collects: The Art of Our Time, (organized by the Pasadena Art Alliance), Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
New Works on Paper, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Master Drawings: 1918-1985, Jamie C Lee Master Drawings, New York, New York
The Foundation Veranneman Invites Marlborough: London, New York and Tokyo, The Foundation Veranneman, Kruishoutem, Belgium
1985 Fresh Paint: The Houston School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, traveled to P S 1, Long Island City, New York, and The Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Selections II: Twentieth Century Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Propaganda, Too!, Midtown Art Center, Houston, Texas
The New Figure, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
1984 New Narrative Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, traveled to Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, and Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix Arizona
American Drawings 1984: from A-Z, Sutton Gallery, New York, New York
New Landscape Painting, (organized by the metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio, Italy
Personal Views, Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, California
36th Annual Purchase Exhibition, Hassam and Speicher Fund American Academy and Institute Of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
1983 Sacred Artifacts and Objects of Devotion, Alternative Museum New York, New York, New York
Atomic Salon, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts/The Village Voice, New York, New York
New Work, New York, Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, Arizona
Invitational Exhibition, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, New York
Southern Rim 2: The Narrative Tradition in the Arts, Birmingham-Southern College and the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
1982 War Games, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, New York
New, New York, Fine Arts Gallery, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida; traveled to Metropolitan Museum, Coral Cables, Florida
Atomic Salon, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
Recent Acquisitions, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1981 Southern Monumental Exhibition, University Gallery, Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee
The Image of House in Contemporary Art, Lawndale Annex, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
New York Gallery Showcase, Oklahoma Art Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1979 Made in Texas, University Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
On the Right Bank of The Red River, The Root Art Center, Hamilton, New York
Fire, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
On Paper, Institute of Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum, Richmond, Virginia
Group Exhibition, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
Guest Artists' Exhibition, Maryland Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
1978 Art of Texas, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Four Houston Artists, University Art Gallery, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
The Art of Texas, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Landscape, Cityscape: Survey of Urban and Rural Lands in the 70s, Brainerd Art Gallery, State University College at Potsdam, Potsdam, New York
1977 Six Painters of the Southwest, Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Drawing Exhibition, Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, California
19th Annual Eight State Exhibition, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1977 Artists Biennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
The 35th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
1976 Philadelphia-Houston Exchange, Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Annual Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
Selections for New-old Collections, Art Museum of South Texas Corpus Christi, Texas
National Print and Drawing Annual Exhibition, Davidson Collection Davidson, North Carolina