Artist CV

Artist's statement

(b 1981BE. Lives and works in London)

Kronacker makes paintings that combine imagined places, architectural fragments, and the observations of people around him. He reconfigures these elements into narrative scenes with a surreal, comi-tragic edge.

Solo exhibitions

2015
Recent Paintings, Wolvenbosch, Belgium 
2013
Casablanca Moon, Jerwood Project Space, London 
2013
Friendly Horizons, Locomotion, London 
2012
Life at Sea, Southard Reid, London 
2011
Frigid Air, Homefront Projects, London 

Group exhibitions

2015
 Longing for Leisure, Open Space, Baltimore 
Creekside Open Selected by Lisa Milroy, APT Gallery, London 
2014
A Union of Voices, Horatio Jr, London 
Issues presents: Celia Hempton, Alec Kronacker, Anna Uddenberg, Oscar Carlson, Issues Gallery, Stockholm 
2013
Creekside Open, Selected by Paul Noble, APT Gallery, London 
2012
Creative Cities Collection, Barbican, London 
Likeable, Supercollider, Blackpool 
2011
Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London 
Asbestos Curtain, Galleries Goldstein at Goodhood, London
Slade MA Degree Show, Slade School of Art, UCL, London 
2010
New Contemporaries, A Foundation, Liverpool / ICA, London 
LeandaKateLouise, Project 1, Shows 1-10 
Terminator, Camberwell Space, London 
2008
Bad Bat (with Jo Robertson), URA, Istanbul 
2008 
Inaugural Show, Fold Gallery, London8
2007
 Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Space, London touring to Bay Art, Cardiff and The Lowry, Salford 
2007 
Carcus, V22 Ashwin Street, London 

Press & publications

2016
Alec Kronacker: Lifestyle Apocalypse, Ambit Magazine 225 
2013
See/Hear: Alec Kronacker, Culture Critic blog 
2011
Asbestos Curtain (cat.), essay by James Boaden 
2010
Sarah Kent, Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2010 review, The Arts Desk 
Ben Luke, Promise of a new decade from Bloomberg, Evening Standard 
2007
Jerwood Contemporary Painters (cat.), essay by JJ Charlesworth,

Education

2009-2011 
MFA Painting, Slade School of Art, UCL, London 
2000-2003
 BA(Hons) Painting, Camberwell College of Arts, London