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“The work already possesses an immediate identity as your own. The interplay between surface, illusion, and objecthood feels fresh and engaging...”
–– Kurt Beers, author of 100 Painters of Tomorrow
statement
I paint an experience of seeing: fluid, shifting, and personal. Born without depth perception, I spent my first years teaching my eyes to work together. This early challenge underlies the tension between depth and flatness in my paintings and my fascination with perception. Through unexpected spatial relationships, multiple viewpoints, and subtle shifts in color, each composition resists resolution and invites mutable perspectives.
The surface itself is integral to the content. I begin by folding and unfolding fabric onto the canvas, creating shallow reliefs that shift in response to the subject. These subtle topographies catch light, cast shadows, and form edges that both describe and disrupt the image before paint is applied. As fluid and flat paint interacts with the surface, the image becomes as malleable as the fabric. Each painting is a still dance with my creative lineage, such as my grandmother’s embroidered reinterpretations of Modernist works, and my life as it unfolds.
bio
Alison Kruvant is an artist born in Washington, DC, based in New York City. She received a B.A. in Studio Art and Art History from Oberlin College and an M.F.A. in Painting from Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She studied abroad in Florence and Rome, Italy.
Kruvant has exhibited at galleries including Ki Smith Gallery (New York, NY), High Line Nine (New York, NY), Warnes Contemporary (Brooklyn, NY), Utopia Gallery (Kingston, NY), Kleinert/James Center for the Arts (Woodstock, NY), and Bridgette Mayer Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), among others. Her work is featured in the White Columns Curated Artist Registry. She has contributed writing to Painters On Paintings and was interviewed in Whitehot Magazine.
Additionally, she helped facilitate community mural projects in the New York area and contributed to the reconstruction of a 17th-century Polish wooden synagogue roof and ceiling murals, which are now permanently displayed at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland.
© 2025 Alison Kruvant. All rights reserved.
Photographs by Jason Mandella.
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Lives and works in NYC
EXHIBITIONS AND FEATURES
2026
(forthcoming), curated by Kaiser Kamal, BAAF, Governors Island Arts, NY
Future Fair, presented by 81 Leonard Gallery, Chelsea Industrial, New York, NY
From the Ground Up, curated by Erika B. Hess, Warnes Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
Above All, The KNOW Art Advisory, Central Park Tower, Penthouse, New York, NY
2025
Ghost Image, curated by Lucia Côté, UTOPIA, Kingston, NY
Above All, The KNOW Art Advisory, Central Park Tower, Penthouse, New York, NY
2024
If Walls Could Talk, Baron Art Gallery, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Converge, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Byrdcliffe Reflections, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY
Trove [flat file], Deanna Evans Projects, New York, NY, Online
2023
The Collective, Visionary Projects, High Line Nine Galleries, New York, NY
Liquidity, Ki Smith Gallery, New York, NY
2022
Curated Artist Registry, White Columns, New York, NY, Online
2021
2021 Benefit Exhibition, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2020
Here, Now, curated by Dexter Wimberly, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Art File Gallery, The Painting Center, New York, NY, Online
2019
13th Annual Juried Exhibition, GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, Reading, PA
Works on Paper ll, Da Vinci Artist Alliance Philadelphia, PA
2018
Looking Through (solo), Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA
Tyler/Independent Hotel Partnership Show, Independent Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
2017
MFA Exhibition, curated by Shara Wasserman, Gallery of Art, Temple University, Rome, Italy
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2026 Artist in Residence, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
2023 Artist in Residence, Byrdcliffe Art Colony, Woodstock, NY
2021 Artist in Residence, Singing on a Sinking Ship, The Neighbors, Chicago, IL
2018 Independent Hotel Curatorial Fellowship, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Gamblin Paint Award, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2016–18 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
PUBLICATIONS
2026 Future Fair Journal, Between Time and Memory: 6 Intergenerational Artist Presentations at Future Fair 2026
2023 Gemima, Clare, Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, Liquidity at Ki Smith Gallery
WRITING AND SPEAKING
2022 Kruvant, Alison, Painters on Paintings, Alison Kruvant on Hedda Sterne
2013 Panelist, Jewish Heritage and Contemporary Art, Columbia University, New York, NY
SELECTED PUBLIC ART
2012 NurtureNature, P.S. 84, Brooklyn, NY | Assistant Artist, Los Muralistas De El Puente
2011 Gwoździec Synagogue Reconstruction Project, POLIN Museum, Warsaw, Poland
EDUCATION
2018 M.F.A. Painting, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy | Year Abroad
2014 Columbia University, New York, NY | Advanced Painting Intensive
2011 B.A. Studio Art, Art History, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
2010 Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy | Semester Abroad
SELECTED TEACHING
2019 Instructor, Painting | Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Instructor, Painting | Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Instructor, Drawing and Painting | Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
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