title: Alexis de Chaunac
text: # Alexis de Chaunac
  
  Alexis de Chaunac (born 1991) is a Mexican-French contemporary artist. He is best known for his paintings and drawings, based on mythology, religion, literature, art history and politics.
  
  ## Life and career
  
  Alexis was born in New York City and grew up in Mexico City and Paris. His grandfather was a Mexican artist José Luis Cuevas, and his father Emmanuel de Chaunac was an executive director and deputy chairman of Christie’s. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Oxford.
  
  ## Selected exhibitions
  
  ### Selected solo exhibitions
  
  * 2019 - Botanica, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
  * 2018 - Botanica Magnifica, chashama, New York, NY
  * 2017 - Rebelde con Causa, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico
  * 2015 - A Dance with Life and Death, Silas von Morisse Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
  * 2015 - Mala Sangre, Bestiario, Pinacoteca Diego Rivera, Xalapa, Mexico
  
  ### Selected group exhibitions
  
  * 2020 - EXODUS III : Mexico In New York, WhiteBox Harlem, New York, NY
  * 2019 - Vertigo, Baahng & Co. Gallery, New York, NY
  * 2017 - 7102 Fantasma semiótico (s)cituacionista, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico
  