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Alex Rae Phelps

Alex (they/he) is a trans hand poke tattooer who specializes in black ink dot work in realist, illustrative, and abstract styles. Their background in sculpture and embroidery informs their delicate hand and three-dimensional interpretation of tattooing. He is self-taught and started tattooing in 2018. Growing up in coastal Southern California, Alex moved to Oakland in 2011 and has been living and loving the Bay Area ever since. If Alex is not creating art, they are probably dancing, mending vintage clothes, taking a bath, holding their cat, or excitedly yell-talking at their partner and friends :)

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Alex tattoos at Thorns Tattoo Studio on Ohlone Land, (Berkeley, CA).

They make regular guest tattoo trips to NYC, Seattle, + more.

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For inquiries email

alexraephelps@gmail.com

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Instagram: @alexraephelps

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Past Solo Exhibitions

Select Past Group Exhibitions

2016

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You Must Be New Here, You Must Be Nowhere

Alter Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

2015

 

The Martian Chronicles, Illustration BFA exhibition

California College of the Arts SF Campus Galleries, San Francisco, CA

 

2014

 

Sand In Avocados, Fine Arts BFA exhibition

College Avenue Galleries, Oakland, CA

2019

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Soft Science

Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany, CA

 

2018

 

Endless Editions Biennial

Endless Editions, New York, NY

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2015

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Designo 7: Contemporary Undergraduate Drawing

A traveling juried exhibition with Kansas City Art Institute and Maryland Institute College of Art, Oliver Art Center

California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

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2014

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Yozo Hamaguchi Memorial Scholarship Exhibition

Isabelle Percy West Gallery, California College of the Arts

Oakland, CA

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What Mask Do You Wear?

A Mobile Arts Platform installation

Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA

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The Osaka Exchange

A collaboration between California College of the Arts and Osaka University of the Arts

Osaka University of the Arts, Osaka, Japan

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