Alex Puz American, b. 1989

Alex Puz (b. 1989 Long Beach, CA) is a painter who works in Baltimore, MD.  His painting practice focuses on color study, optics and linear abstractions to explore the gap between emotion and cognition. Puz's process oriented painting practice systematizes color and line resulting in dense and ornate chromatic fields.

He holds a BFA in Studio Art from Hunter College ('14) and an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale School of Art ('22.) Alex Puz is a 2017 Rema Hot Mann Foundation Nominee and 2022 recipient of the YPEI Teaching Fellowship. He was a Cohort 05 Studio Fellow in Titus Kaphar's NXTHVN fellowship in New Haven, CT and participated in the 2025 Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program in New York City.

His work has been written about in Vogue Magazine, The Yale Daily News, liveart.io and Art Maze Magazine. His work is included in the collection of JP Morgan Chase and Yale Health. Selected exhibitions include Double Down at The Campus, Vibrant Matters at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery (NYC), Elán Vital at MoCA CT, Spirit Rift at Underdonk (NYC) and Forgetting is Remembering in Seoul, Korea with Gallery Simon. Trichromacy is Puz’s first solo exhibition at Pazo Fine Art.