Alexander studied at the Vancouver Art School and Langara College art dept. and then graduated with a BFA from Notre Dame University.
In 1980 he moved to Saskatoon to obtain his Master degree while researching in New York, London and Paris. He has travelled the world to attend his exhibitions, conduct lectures and drawing and painting research.
In 2006 Alexander attended the Morris Graves Foundation in California as an invited guest artist in residence and completed a large body of small paintings on wood panels.
In 2007 he visited Tokyo and Kyoto and was inspired by the parks and water features.
In September 2008 he returned to the high arctic as an invited member aboard a 75 ft. sailing ship that was circumnavigating North America through the North West Passage where he sailed from Tuktoyaktuk, Canada to Point Barrow Alaska. The expedition, Nord 69 consisted of artists, scientists and writers raising cultural and environmental awareness towards global warming.
David Alexander's art is in many public, private and corporate collections throughout the world, including The Vancouver Art Gallery, Museum of London, University of Toronto and Concordia University in Montreal, Museum of Art in Iceland, Canadian Embassies in Berlin, Beijing and Krakow. Corporate collections also include works throughout Canadian cities as well as Dubai, Seoul, New York, Mumbai and Nice France and others.
2016 Bau-Xi, Toronto
2015 "Waterland", Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2015 "Land We Have Not Synthesized", Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2014 Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2013 "Evidence in Place", Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2013 Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver B.C.
2013 “The Edge of Places We Have Not Made”, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON
2013 Hulse Warman Gallery Taos New Mexico (drawings)
2012 Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2011 “Land We Can’t Re-Make” Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON
“My Land Mind: Clues in Place” Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010 “Into the Maelstrom” Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2009 “Landscape Drawn into Place”, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON
2008 Foster White Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
Peter Robertson Gallery- Edmonton AB.
‘An Hour Before the Wind Blew the Colour Away’ (catalogue), Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver. B.C.
2007 ‘New Pictures’, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON
2006 Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Galerie D’Avignon, Montreal, QC
2005 Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON
2004 'New Paintings', Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON
2003 Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Wallack Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2002 Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON
2001 Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2000 Feheley Fine Arts “Improbable Possibilities”, Toronto, ON
Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON
Wallack Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Feheley Fine Arts (Drawings), Toronto, ON
1999 Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1998 Feheley Fine Arts (Drawings), Toronto, ON
Wallack Gallery, Ottawa, ON
1997 Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1996 Virginia Christopher Art Galleries, Calgary, AB
1995 Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK
1994 Costin & Klintworth, Toronto, ON
Feheley Fine Arts (Drawings), Toronto, ON
Wallack Gallery, Ottawa, ON
1993 Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Virginia Christopher Art Galleries, Calgary, AB
1992 Costin & Clintworth, Toronto, ON
Wallack Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK
1991 Feheley Fine Arts (Drawings), Toronto, ON
Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Heffel Fine Art, Vancouver, BC
1990 Wallack Gallery, Ottawa, ON
1989 Feheley Fine Arts (Drawings), Toronto, ON
Heffel Fine Art, Vancouver, BC
1988 Elca London Art Gallery, Montréal, PQ
Waddington & Shiell Gallery, Toronto, ON
1987 Waddington & Shiell Gallery, Toronto, ON
Eva Cohen Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Elca London Art Gallery, Montréal, PQ
Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK
1985 Heffel Fine Art, Vancouver, BC
Waddington & Shiell Gallery, Toronto, ON
1984 Elca London Art Gallery, Montréal, PQ
Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK
1983 Heffel Fine Art, Vancouver, BC
1982 Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK
Virginia Christopher Art Galleries, Calgary, AB
1976 Worthington Art Gallery, Nelson, BC
1975 Clockworks Gallery, Nelson, B.C.
2009 “Variations on a Line”, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2008 Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
Art Fair NYC 2008
2002-07 Toronto Art Fair, Toronto, ON
Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, IL
2003 Bau-Xi Gallery, “Waterscapes” Toronto, ON
London Art Fair, London England
NYC Art Fair, NYC
2000 'About the Rock', Drawing exhibition, St. Johns, Ottawa & Edmonton
Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1996 Gerald Peters Gallery, “Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas,” Santa Fe, New Mexico
1994 Waddington, Gorce Gallery, Montréal, PQ
1992 Art First, London, England
1991 Editions, Basel, Switzerland
1987 G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
1986 Theo Waddington Art Gallery, London Eng.
Los Angeles Art Fair, California
1985 Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, Illinois
1982-83 Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary, AB
1982 Elca London Art Gallery, Montréal, PQ
Kenneth G. Heffel Fine Art, Vancouver, BC
Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, IL
1981 Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK
1978 DeVooght Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1966 Peter Ohler Gallery, Richmond, BC
2016 Toronto Art Fair
2015 "Waterland", Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2015 "Land We Have Not Synthesized", Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2014 Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2013 "The Shape of Place", traveling exhibition, Tom Thomson Gallery, Ontario
2010 Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC
Penticton Art Gallery, Penticton, BC
2006 Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
2003 University of Saskatchewan, Kenderdine Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Keyano College, Ft. McMurray, AB
2002 Public Exhibition, Hafnarfjordur, Iceland
1997 Whyte Museum Banff AB
Kootenay Art Gallery, Castlegar, BC
Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, BC
Kelowna Art Gallery Kelowna B.C
1982-83 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK: Travelling Exhibition, Hamilton, ON;
Edmonton, Lethbridge, AB
Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK
1980 Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, BC
1979 Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC
1978 Notre Dame University (B.F.A.)
2016 Whyte Museum, Banff, AB
Canada House, London, England
2014 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
2013, 2012 “The Shape of Place”, Travelling Exhibition - Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC; Confederation Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI; Tom Thomson Gallery, Owen Sound, ON; Twin Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC; Touchstone Gallery, Nelson, BC; Esplanade Gallery, Medicine Hat, AB
2010 “Kelowna Collects”, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC
2009 “Point, Counterpoint’”, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
2008 Glenbow Museum, Calgary Ab.
Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB.
2004 Faculty Exchange Exhibition, University of Washington
Whitman College, Washington State
1997 Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, New York
1996 Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna B.C.
Kenderdine Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Muttart Gallery, Calgary, AB
Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
1995 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK ( traveling exhibition)
1994 Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Musée d'art comtemporain de Montréal, PQ
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS
University of Lethbridge, AB.
1993 Galerie Pallas, Prague, Czechoslovakia
1992 Hope & Optimism Portfolio,(traveling prints) Oxford, England, Gibraltar, India
1991 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB
1990 Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON
1988 Alberta College of Art, Calgary, AB
1987 University of New Brunswick (traveling exhibition) - Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick
1986 Expo '86, Vancouver, BC
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
1985 Edmonton Art Gallery, “Canadian Contemporary Art”, Edmonton, AB
MacKenzie Gallery, “Fourteen Saskatchewan Painters”, Regina, SK
1984 Mendel Art Gallery, “Saskatchewan Open,” Saskatoon, SK
1983 Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK
1981 Edmonton Art Gallery, Traveling Exhibition
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
1980 Mount Royal College, Calgary, AB
Queen Elizabeth Theatre Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1978 Notre Dame University, Nelson, BC
1977 Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC
Topham Brown Gallery, Vernon, BC
2016 Master's painting workshop, University of Saskatchewan, Regina, SK
2015 Juror for provincial painting exhibition- Winnipeg, Manitoba
2014- 2006 Art Advisory Member, Lake Country, BC
2012 Resident artist in Taos, New Mexico (September – November)
2011 Guest Artist, Emma Lake Workshop, Saskatchewan
2010 Artist in residence, Grand Canyon, Arizona
2006-09 Arts Advisory Member, Lake Country, BC
2008 Island Mountain Arts, painting mentor, Wells B.C.
Guest Artist, "Nord 69", a sailing/global warming awareness expedition around North
America, (filmed documentary).
2007 Documentary "David Alexander", "Landscape as Muse" on Bravo, Knowledge Network,
SCN, Canadian television networks
2006 Artist/Mentor, Slocan City, BC
Guest artist in Residence, Morris Graves Foundation, California
2005 Visiting Artist, Georgian College, Barrie, ON
2003 Visiting Artist, Keyano College, AB
Visiting Artist, Victoria School, Edmonton, AB
2002 Visiting Artist in residence, Iceland
Board Member, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
1999 Juror, Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg, MB
Visiting Artist, Iceland Academy of Fine Arts, Reykjavik, Iceland
Visiting Artist, Georgian College, Barrie, ON
Curator, 'About the Rock' - Canadian Touring Exhibition
Visiting Artist, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
1998 Visiting Artist, Wilfred Grenfell, Cornerbrook, NF
Visiting Artist, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON
1997 Guest Artist, Painting Workshop, Georgian College, Klempenfelt Center, Lake Simcoe, ON
Guest Artist, Painting Workshop 'Residency in Newfoundland', Pouch Cove, NF
Co-curator, “Contemporary Canadian Landscape” Exhibition, Kenderine Gallery,
Saskatoon, SK
Visiting Artist, Thompson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, ON
Artist in Residence, Georgian College, Barrie, ON
Visiting Artist, Okanagan University, Kelowna, BC
Guest Speaker, Tom Thomson Gallery, Owen Sound, ON
1991-97 Instructor of drawing and painting, St. Peters College, SK
1995-96 Co-curator, “Paintings on Paper of Emily Carr” - Traveling Exhibition (with John O’Brian of
UBC, Art History Dept., Vancouver)
1994 Arctic Institute of North America, Painting Workshop, Kluane, Yukon
Juror, Saskatchewan Arts Board
1993 Visiting Artist, Portland College, Portland, Oregon
1992 Visiting Artist, Grande Prairie College, Grande Prairie, AB
1991 Visiting Artist, Keyano College, Fort McMurray, AB
1990 Juror, Manitoba Arts Council
Visiting Artist, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB
1989 Visiting Artist, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, NS
Visiting Artist, Prince George, BC
1988 Juror, Manitoba Arts Council
1987 Instructor of Painting, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, NS
1986 Juror, Canada Council Art Bank
Canada Council Visiting Artist, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
Canada Council Visiting Artist, Dundas School of Art, Dundas, ON
1985 Canada Council Visiting Artist, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC
Instructor of Painting, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
1984 Participant, Emma Lake Workshop (V. Tatransky, critic/writer - New York;
T. Scott, sculptor -London, England)
1983 Workshop Coordinator, Emma Lake (L Zox, painter - New York; C. Millard, curator/critic -
Hirshorn Museum Washington, DC)
Guest Artist, Boston Museum School, Boston, Massachusetts
Instructor of Drawing, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
1982 Workshop Coordinator, Emma Lake (S. Boxer, painter - New York; James Woolfe,
sculptor - New York)
Curator, 'Emma Lake Now' - Library Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
University of Saskatchewan, M.F.A. Exhibition, Saskatoon
(painting and thesis) Graduates Research: London, Paris, Giverny, France,
New York and Boston
1979 Emma Lake Artists Workshop Saskatchewan participant (Freidl Dzubas, painter - Boston)
(John Elderfield, director of drawing and sculpture) - Museum of Modern Art, New York
Notre Dame University - B.F.A. (painting and sculpture) Vancouver City College, Langara
Art Dept. (painting, drawing)
1969-70 Vancouver School of Art, extension (painting and photography)
2012 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Award, Taos New Mexico
1993 Saskatchewan Arts Board Individual Assistance (High Arctic trip)
1990 Saskatchewan Arts Board Individual Assistance (drawing trip - Scotland)
1988 Saskatchewan Arts Board Individual Assistance (drawing trip - High
Arctic)
1984 Saskatchewan Arts Board Individual Assistance
1982 Saskatchewan Arts Board Individual Assistance
Saskatchewan Open, Mendel Art Gallery (purchase)
1980 Canada Council (projects)
1978 Kootenay School of Art
Notre Dame University
1976 City of Nelson, British Columbia
2012 "The Shape of Place", published by Queens University press, Montreal
2008 Landscape as Muse, TV film documentary, March 13
2005 Galleries West, Spring 2005
2004 The Globe & Mail, Toronto, May 8, Gary Michael Dault
1998 Artweek, "Gathered Into Earth" Whitman College, Washington, November
Evening Telegraph, St. John's Newfoundland, February 13.
Arts Atlantic, "Painters Newfoundland"
1997 Whyte Museum, Banff, Alberta articles:
1.One Step, Removed - Cairn
2.Wonderful and Terrible Power
Vanderleelie Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, "One Step Removed", Catalogue
1996-97 Border Crossings Winter Issue 1996, Summer Issue 1997
1996 Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas, Catalogue, Santa Fe, New Mexico,
Museum of Tuscon, Arizona Art Museum of S. Texas, Corpus Christi, Western Washington
University, Bellingham, Washington; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, N.Y;
Gibbes Museum, Charleston, South Carolina
1995 Encyclopedia of Acrylic Techniques, Harrison, London, England
1994 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, (Kelowna Art Gallery, Swift Current), Catalogue "Continental Drift".
Greenland Drawings, St. Peters Press, Saskatchewan. Catalogue
1992 The Toronto Star - Christopher Hume, September 17, Sect. E, pg. 5.
Canadian Art Reviews - Toronto Kate Taylor, Winter 1992, Volume 9 & 27, pg. 69.
The Globe & Mail, Toronto, September 18, Kate Taylor
1991 The Scotsman - Edinburgh, Scotland By Richard Jaques, Tuesday, November 12.
Fort McMurray News by Kerri Philpott, Sunday, March 24
The Arts Fredericton, New Brunswick - Newspaper, by Christina Sabat
Alexander Breaks out of West Coast Mould, Saskatoon, Star Phoenix,
The Flat Side of the Landscape by John O'Brian, Mendel Gallery Publication, pg. 90.
1988 Arts Atlantic - Christina Sabat, pg. 3, Fall 1988
Contemporary 88, Olympic Arts, Calgary, pg. 33, January
The Canadian Encyclopedia
Hurtig Press, Edmonton; Alberta (Canadian Painters Section)
1987 Entertainment C5 - Elizabeth Godley Review, October 14, pg. 16.
Baltimore Sun - Art - review by John Dorsey
Baltimore Daily Record - Art - Bennard Perlman
Border Crossings - Prairie Achdemonics, Terrance Heath, pg. 53
1986 Newsletter (Arts) by Ken Moffatt, Stamford, Connecticut, December, Vol 1
Edmonton Art Gallery – Update, Vol.7, pg. 67.
Out of Saskatchewan, Expo. 86, Joan Bornsa, pg. 14
1985-86 Canadian Print Portfolio, Winter Spring V.2, #4, V.3 #1, pg. 7 by Alison Brannen
Vie des Arts, Ken Carpenter, Vol.30 #1, December - Winter, pg. 36
1985 Canadian Art Review, Winter, by Robert Enright, pg. 84
Canadian Art, Winter - Expanding the Tradition, Peter Millard
The Art Post, Vol.1, August–September, pg. 26 by Clyde McConnel
1984-85 Canadian Art, Winter, pg. 54
1984 Art - Montreal Gazette, Review Arts, Lawrence Sabbath, Saturday, May 31
1983 At The Crossroads - Painting in Saskatoon, Peter Millar, Winter, Pg.28
Emerging Arts are on Display - Leader Post Regina - Margaret Hyniuk, March 31
Rhythm and Colour - Vancouver Courier, April 27 - Artline Beth Evans
Contemporary Canadian Art by D. Burnett and M. Schiff, Hurtig Publishers
1982 Arts Canada, pg. VI, by Carol Phillips
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB
Burnaby Art Gallery,
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON
Canadian Embassy, Warsaw, Poland
Canadian Embassy, Beijing, China
Concordia University, Montréal, QC
Department of External Affairs –
Manila, Philippines & Melbourne, Australia
Department of Foreign Affairs, Berlin, Germany
Dunlop Gallery, Regina, SK
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Georgian College, Barrie, ON
Glenbow Museum, Calgary AB
Grant MacEwan Community College, Edmonton, AB
Institute of Art - Hafnarfjordur, Iceland
Kelowna Art Gallery, BC
Keyano College, Ft. McMurray, AB
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK
MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Museum London
Notre Dame University
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON
Saskatchewan Arts Board Collection, Regina, SK
Tom Thompson Gallery, Owen Sound, ON
University of British Columbia, Belkin Art Gallery,
Vancouver, BC
University of Lethbridge, AB
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Armak Chemicals, Toronto, ON
Air Canada, Montréal, QC
Bank of Montreal, Winnipeg, MB
BC Gas, Vancouver, BC
BC Lotteries Foundation, BC
Burroughs Memorex, Inc., Toronto, ON
Canadian Airlines International, Edmonton, AB
Capital Guardian (Canada) Inc., Toronto, ON
CIBC - Montréal, QC
Dupont Canada, Toronto, ON
Emaar Properties, Dubai, United Arab Emerates
Esso Resources, Calgary, AB
First City Trust, Vancouver, BC
Granite Club, Toronto, ON
Guaranty Trust, Toronto, ON
North Growth Management, BC
Hiram Walker, Toronto, ON
Hudson's Bay Oil, Denver, Colorado
Husky Oil, Calgary, AB
Hughes Petroleum, Edmonton, AB
Hewlett Packard, Toronto, ON
Imperial Oil, Calgary, AB
Korean Energy, Seoul, Korea
Leopold Properties Montreal, QC
McCarthy, Tetrault, Vancouver and Toronto
McLean Hunter Publishers, Toronto, ON
McMillan and Binch, Toronto, ON
Nova Corporation, Calgary, AB
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, Toronto, ON
Pan-Oil, Calgary, AB
Paradigm Capital, ON
Petro-Can, Calgary, AB
Power Corp., Montréal, QC
Pratt and Whitney, Montréal, QC
Rothchilds Inc.
Royal Bank, Canada
Royal Trust, Montréal, QC
Saskatchewan Potash Corporation, Saskatoon, SK
Saskatchewan Telecommunications, Regina, SK
Shell Resources, Calgary, AB
Stantec Inc., Edmonton, AB
Sterling Crane, Edmonton, AB
Stikeman and Elliott, New York, New York
Suncor Inc., Toronto, ON
Sunlife Assurance, Toronto, ON
Syncrude Canada, Edmonton, AB
TD Evergreen, Edmonton, AB
Teleglobe Canada, Montréal, QC
Toronto Dominion Bank, Toronto, ON
Trimark Investments, Toronto, ON
VIA Rail, Montréal, QC
Waterclub, Toronto, ON
Weetbourne Industries, Montréal, QC
Wood Gundy, Edmonton, AB
2015 Faroe Islands,Iceland, Denmark,Taos, New Mexico
2014 Iceland, Faroe Islands
2013 New Mexico
2008 Nevada, Arizona, California
2006 Washington, Oregon, California
2005 Utah, Nevada
2001 Iceland
2002, 2000, 1996, 1994 Northern Ontario/Quebec
1999 Iceland/Holland
1996 New Mexico, Arizona
1993 Greenland
1993 Baffin Island
1990 Northern Scotland
1989 Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands
1989 California