Alex Prager was born in 1979 in Los Angeles, California, where she continues to live and work. A self-taught artist, she was inspired to take up photography after seeing the color images of William Eggleston, who is widely regarded as the father of contemporary color photography.

Taking aesthetic cues from film, fashion photography, pulp fiction, and her native city of Los Angeles, Alex Prager produces Technicolor photographs with dark, unsettling undercurrents. Populated by seductively stylized women, Prager’s photographs resemble vintage Hollywood movie stills. She constructs ambiguous scenes weighted with the uneasy expectation of impending danger.

“I find my inspiration in the city of Los Angeles,” she explains. “It’s a strange picture of perfection— but there is an eerie monotony that creeps in. It can slowly drive a person crazy, that sense of unease under the surface of all this beauty and promise.”

Exhibitions include

Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Hong Kong (2015)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (2014)
The Arts Club, London (2014)
Corcoran Gallery of Art (2013)
Savannah College of Art and Design (2013)
FOAM Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam (2012)

Work appears in

New York’s Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art
Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden

Her work has been featured in publications such as Vogue, W Magazine and Art in America, and her film series “Touch of Evil,” commissioned by The New York Times Magazine, won a 2012 Emmy Award.