Alexis Rockman

New York City, USA

Alexis Rockman, a painter based in Warren, Connecticut, is an environmental activist who began making paintings and works on paper to build environmental awareness in the mid-1980s, embarking on expeditions to distant locations like Antarctica and Madagascar in the company of professional naturalists. His work tells stories of natural histories confronting the dystopian future of the biodiversity crisis, global warming, and genetic engineering.

Rockman’s work has been exhibited around the world and showcased at prestigious galleries and museums including the Venice Biennale, Carnegie Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Serpentine Galleries, and many more. Rockman also worked on the 2012 movie Life of Pi with Ang Lee, as “Inspirational Artist” Alexis Rockman: Oceanus, a major exhibition premiered at Mystic Seaport Museum and Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’s Underworld, opens at the Tang Teaching Museum on July 13th, 2024, the first two-person exhibition of these closely allied artists. The show will tour to four additional museums.

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Featured Work

Alexis Rockman

Oceanus
2022 / 2024

Engaging with themes of biodiversity, climate change, ocean health and maritime history, Oceanus, a commissioned painting by the Mystic Seaport Museum, explores human impacts on the ocean throughout history. At the surface of the ocean, a timeline of vessels representing human activity over the centuries, based largely on ships and models in the Mystic Seaport Museum collection, culminates in a tsunami wave.

Beneath the waves teem a threatened world of marine species, telling the stories of human exploitation and interventions in the ocean, from whale-hunting to fisheries depletion to the threats posed by seabed mining. The original painting was adapted for CGR-H2O and this site-specific installation in 2024.

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Kura Kura Bali

Bali - Indonesia

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