Alex Jovanovich

Alex Jovanovich is an American artist, writer, and senior editor at Artforum whose practice merges visual work and critical writing. He works in drawing, writing, and 35mm slide projection, and his work has been exhibited at such institutions as the Whitney Biennial.

Early life and education Jovanovich was born in 1975 in Hobart, Indiana.

Career Visual art Untitled, 2014. Still from a 35 mm slideshow exhibited in the Whitney Biennial. Jovanovich works primarily in 35 mm slide projection and drawing, in black-and-white, to address themes of love, spirituality, melancholy, and mourning.

Critical reception An Artforum review of Jovanovich's 2013 exhibition likened his work to a hypothetical collaboration between Christina Ramberg and Lee Bontecou, and noted how "shockingly sensitive" it is.

Jovanovich's use of words in his art and skill as a writer were among the reasons he was selected for inclusion in the Whitney Biennial, part of curator Anthony Elms's stated goal to make the exhibition "a literary event."

Selected exhibitions 2013: "Some Poor Girls," Adds Donna, Chicago 2015: "Making a Scene: Objects for Performance," Museum of Arts and Design, New York

Art criticism Jovanovich is a senior editor at Artforum, where he contributes exhibition reviews, artist profiles, and art criticism. Whitney Biennial 2014 (Whitney Museum of American Art / Yale University Press, 2014), in conversation with poet Dan Beachy-Quick Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art (Lehman College Art Gallery / La MaMa Galleria, 2023), catalog essay

Personal life Jovanovich is of Serbian Orthodox heritage. He lives and works in the Bronx. At age 10, Jovanovich saw Andy Warhol on The Love Boat and has described it as a formative experience, saying he saw in Warhol "something of myself" and "some glimmer of hope for a future."