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Born in 1958 in Havana, Cuba


1999, MFA, University of Pennsylvania

1996, BFA, University of Washington


"I paint because I like to take something created from the mind and making it into something concrete that others can take in.

In this body of work I have two separate approaches. One is based on improvisation where a dialogue takes place with the work. As a painting begins to take shape it “tells me” what to do next. I become interested in investigating what kinds of painted realities (a reality existing only on a flat two-dimensional surface) can be created using only two basic elements, line and color.

The other approach involves a dialogue between computer-generated ideas and painted ideas, A painting may start as a computer generated concept or start as a painting that is scanned into the computer and then is reinterpreted as a painting. I use geometric and linear forms as a common language the two models of expression can easily share. The goal is to achieve something that is neither strictly computer art or strictly painting but rather organic hybrid of the two."

Alex Queral, November 1999


Read the PaintingsDIRECT January 2000 Exhibition featuring Alex Queral.


  • Group Exhibitions
  • 1999:
  • Myerson Gallery, Philidelphia, PA, “MFA Award Winners Exhibit.

  • Meyerson Gallery, Philadelphia, PA “Thesis Exhibit”

  • 1998:
  • The Last Drop Cafe, Philadelphia, PA

  • Bijou Gallery, Baltimore, MD

  • Sowebo Festival, Baltimore, MD

  • Café Trio, Philadelphia, PA

  • Borders Bookstore, Philadelphia, PA

  • 1996:
  • Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA, "BFA Exhibit"

  • The Art Gallery of Lower Columbia College Longview, WA

  • 1995:
  • Parnassus Cafe, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

  • Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA

    • Selection of paintings from Alex Queral

    Read the guestbook of Alex Queral

    Sign the guestbook of Alex Queral

  • Charles Addams Memorial Award, University of Pennsylvania, 1999
  • Vermont Studio Award, GSFA, University of Pennsylvania, 1988


  • Dark’s Art Parlour, The Periodical of Dark Art Issue 4, 1997