Alex Rae Phelps
Is an artist & tattooer based on Ohlone land (Oakland/Berkeley, CA)
Alex is a queer, non-binary artist, dancer, collector, and vintage fashion enthusiast. Their background in sculpture and sewing informs their delicate hand and three-dimensional interpretation of tattooing. Alex specializes in hand poked, black ink dot work in a variety of styles. When Alex is not tattooing, they can be found swing dancing, mending old clothes, & holding their cat.
Alex works out of a private studio
in the Oakland / Berkeley area.
They make regular guest tattoo trips
Ventura, CA, Austin, TX, and Brooklyn, NY.
For inquiries email
Instagram: @alexraephelps
Past Solo Exhibitions
Select Past Group Exhibitions
2016
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
Soft Science
Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany, CA
2018
Endless Editions Biennial
Endless Editions, New York, NY
2015
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
2014
Yozo Hamaguchi Memorial Scholarship Exhibition
Isabelle Percy West Gallery, California College of the Arts
Oakland, CA
What Mask Do You Wear?
A Mobile Arts Platform installation
Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
The Osaka Exchange
A collaboration between California College of the Arts and Osaka University of the Arts
Osaka University of the Arts, Osaka, Japan