contact
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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 Ki Smith Gallery (New York, NY), Central Park Tower Penthouse (New York, NY), High Line Nine Galleries (New York, NY), The Painting Center (New York, NY), Trestle Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Utopia Gallery (Kingston, NY), Kleinert/James Center for the Arts (Woodstock, NY), Bridgette Mayer Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), Da Vinci Art Alliance (Philadelphia, PA), and GoggleWorks Center for the Arts (Reading, PA). Her work is featured in the White Columns Curated Artist Registry. Kruvant’s writing is published in Painters On Paintings and she 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.
artist statement
I paint to capture an experience of seeing—fluid, shifting, and deeply personal. Born without depth perception, I spent my early years teaching my eyes to work together. The challenge of orienting myself in space underlies my fascination with vision and the tension between depth and flatness in my paintings. My work encourages the eye and mind to wander rather than fixate. Unexpected spatial relationships, multiple viewpoints, and subtle shifts in color reflect the layered, incomplete nature of perception. Each composition resists resolution, instead inviting 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. The painting emerges as much through sensation as sight.
My practice weaves together a kaleidoscope of art histories. Each painting is a still dance with my family’s creative lineage, such as my grandmother’s sculptures and embroidered reinterpretations of Modernist works, and my lived experience. I embrace the contradictions inherent to painting by combining representational techniques with flat and material abstraction. The painting functions as both object and illusion, surface and window—but not all at once.
Painting is how I locate myself in personal, cultural, and art history while imagining what comes next. I draw from Western Modernist painting, Postmodern thought, and other traditions that have influenced me. Postmodernism, for me, revealed cracks in inherited ways of seeing. Through painting, I re-examine the fragments, reassemble what still fits, discard what does not, and search for a new perspective—knowing that, too, will shift as the world does.
© 2025 Alison Kruvant. All rights reserved.
Photographs by Jason Mandella.
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Lives and works in NYC
EXHIBITIONS AND FEATURES
2025
Ghost Image, curated by Lucia Côté, UTOPIA, Kingston, NY
Above All, curated by 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 by 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, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Art File Gallery, The Painting Center, New York, NY, Online
2019
13th Annual 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, Temple University Rome Gallery, Rome, Italy
2014
Advanced Painting Exhibition, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY
2011
On Portraiture, Fisher Gallery, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
2010
Selected Works by 2D and 3D students, SACI Gallery, Florence, Italy
AWARDS
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
2023 Gemima, Clare, Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, Liquidity at Ki Smith Gallery
WRITING
2022 Kruvant, Alison, Painters on Paintings, Alison Kruvant on Hedda Sterne
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
2013 Panelist, Columbia University, New York, NY | Jewish Heritage and Contemporary Art
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