Afonso Gonzalez Jr., THIS WAS HERE, Jeffrey Deitch, 2024-2025. Installation View.
Photo by Genevieve Hanson.
Courtesy of the artist and Jeffrey Deitch, New York and Los Angeles
Alfonso Gonzalez Jr., Singular Views: Los Angeles, Rubell Museum, Miami, 2023. Installation View.
Alfonso Gonzalez Jr.
Magic Beauty, 2022
Oil, enamel, latex, dirt, gel medium, masonite on wood.
179 x 203 in
454.7 x 515.6 cm
Alfonso Gonzalez Jr.
El Pato, 2021
Oil, enamel, gel medium, latex and dirt, on canvas.
66.125 x 45.875 in
168 x 116.5 cm
Alfonso Gonzalez Jr.
State Street Liquor, 2022
Oil, enamel, latex, dirt, gel medium, plexiglass, masonite on wood.
179 x 203 in
454.7 x 515.6 cm
Alfonso Gonzalez Jr.
El Norteño, 2022
Oil, enamel, gel medium, latex and dirt, on canvas
84 x 98.125 in
213.4 x 249.2 cm
Alfonso Gonzalez Jr
Bird, 2021
Oil and enamel, on canvas
108 x 96 in
274.3 x 243.8 cm
Alfonso Gonzalez Jr. (b. 1989, Los Angeles) lives and works in Los Angeles.
His solo exhibition In Between Stops is currently on view at Los Angeles County Museum of Art through December 1, 2026.
Select solo exhibitions include No Parking, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2025); This Was Here, Jeffrey Deitch, New York (2024) and There Was There, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2022).
Recent museum group exhibitions include Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2024-2025); ican–a.o.x Body, American Federation of Arts, New York (2023); Singular Views: Los Angeles, Rubell Museum, Miami (2023); Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection, ICA, Miami (2022); and Loveline, Long Beach Art Museum, CA (2022).
Gonzalez Jr. will participate in upcoming group exhibitions at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo and at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, both opening in March 2026. He will also present a forthcoming two-person exhibition with Mario Ayala at the Long Beach Museum of Art, opening in October 2026.
Recent group exhibitions include Let Us Gather in A Flourishing Way, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY (2026); Here, Now, Platforma Contemporary Art, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico (2026); 4x4, Karma, organized by Ryan Preciado, New York (2024); Group Shoe 4, Veta, Madrid (2024); HOMEWARD, WHAAM!, New York (2024); At the Edge of the Sun, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles (2024); Come One, Come All, Anthony Gallery, Chicago (2024); Flesh & Flowers, Made in America, No Name, Paris (2023); Cathartic Creatures, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco (2023); Horizons, Sow & Tailor, Hong Kong (2023); Heaven is a Basement, Soho Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA (2023); Group Shoe Two, Public Access, New York (2023); Hot Concrete, K11, Hong Kong (2022); My Generation, Massif Central Editions, New York (2022); Come As You Are, Anthony Gallery, Chicago (2022); Shattered Glass, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles (2021); Ni de aquí, ni de allá, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles (2021); Vernacular Grafikz, Tlaloc Studios, Los Angeles (2021); Growing Pains, Anthony Gallery, Chicago (2021); Alphabetic Image, Arsenal Contemporary Art, New York (2021); Lxs Angelinx, Galleria Javier López & Fer Frances, Madrid (2021); L.A Views, MAKI Gallery, Tokyo (2020); Screen 2 Screen, HVW8 Art + Design Gallery, Online (2020); City of Quartz, HVW8 Art + Design Gallery, Online (2020); With A Little Help From My Friends: A Benefit For Bryan Chagolla, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles (2019); and Human Nature, The Pit, Los Angeles (2019).
His work is in the permanent collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hammer Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, ICA Miami and the Rubell Museum.
