ALEX THOMPSON COLE
Alexandra Thompson is a visual artist who studied painting and printmaking at Stanford University, where she earned a BA with honors in visual arts and pursued extensive coursework in biology, philosophy, and literature. She has received fellowships and awards from the Santa Fe Art Institute, Vermont Studio Center, Yale Norfolk School of Art, and Stanford University. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and Europe and is held in private collections. Alongside her art practice, she has worked as a science journalist and manages farmland in Illinois.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (solo*)2025 Scrutiny Mutiny, The Hook Experiment, Oxford, PA
2024 Postholes and Wings, Gallery 444, Provincetown, MA
2023 Waking Hillside*, Gallery 444, Provincetown, MA
2022 Bramble, Walls, Lorenzo, Gallery 444, Provincetown, MA
2021 Returning Trains*, Gallery 444, Provincetown, MA
2019 Art in the Time of Covid, Art Association of Jackson Hole, Jackson, WY
2019 Depot Open*, 85 Depot St., Driggs, ID
2011 Other Lawns, Funkhaus studio, Funkhaus Nalepestrasse, Berlin, Germany
Running Still*, San Cristobal Trading Post, San Cristobal, NM
2009 Come in and see the Ducks, Thompson/Katon open studio, Venice, CA
2007 Tiny drawings and a Big Painting*, Blithe Bit Farm, Geneva, IL
2004 Glen Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY,
3-D, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Gallery Artist Exhibit, Etherington Fine Art, Vineyard Haven, MA
. Members Show, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
2002 Figures in Landscape, Etherington Fine Art, Vineyard Haven,
Monoprints and Paintings, Cole House, Weston, CT
2001 W + T, Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, Hudson, NY.
Two Rivers, Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, Hudson, NY
1999 Works from the Figure, NNW Studio, New York, NY
Animals and Weather, Rentschler/Law Gallery, Hudson, NY
Young Turks Show, Etherington Fine Art, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Paintings and Prints from the Figure, La Mia Donia, Palo Alto, CA
GRANTS AND RECOGNITIONS2003 Vermont Studio Center, Fellowship, Johnson, VT
1999 Santa Fe Art Institute, fellowship, Santa Fe, NM
1994 Yale University, Ellen Battel Stoeckl Fellowship, Norfolk, CT
1991 Stanford University, Raina and John Geese Awards for work in the visual arts, Stanford, CA
CONTEMPORANEOUS PURSUITS2005-present Farm manager, UAC Farm Partnership and GWT Farms, Knox and Kane counties, IL
2019-20 Contributing radio and print correspondent for science and culture, KHOL Jackson, WY
2002-04 Science, environment, and features reporter and photographer, Martha’s Vineyard Times, Vineyard Haven, MA
2001-02 Science writer, United Press International, Washington, DC
2005 Intern, Entomology Dept., American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
EDUCATION2001 University of Missouri at Columbia, MO, Masters program in Journalism: photography and science writing
1999 Columbia University, New York NY, Special Programs: neurology, environmental economics, philosophy of technology
1995 Stanford University, Stanford, CA, BA with honors: visual arts, minor focus in biology