In his art, Alfonso Gonzalez Jr.’s art weaves together stories often absent from his native city’s carefully and strategically designed image, consisting of an entire world that is immigrant, low-income, working class, and Black, Brown, or Asian. Gonzalez brings this world to view through hand-painted signage, graffiti, murals, weathered surfaces, mom-and-pop shops, public restrooms, restaurants, and homes. His compositions honor the design and aesthetic sensibilities of renters, small business owners, taggers, and people who join the city’s quotidian landscape by leaving their marks. Gonzalez prioritizes their choices in his work, giving shape to the vast, bourgeoning community of proud Angelenx cultural producers.

Alfonso Gonzalez Jr. was born in 1989 in Los Angeles, CA, where he lives.

His first solo exhibition was at Matthew Brown in Los Angeles, CA (2022).

He has participated in recent museum shows at the Rubell Museum in Miami, FL (2023); the ICA in Miami, FL (2022); and the Long Beach Art Museum in Long Beach, CA (2022).

Gonzalez Jr. also has been included in group exhibitions at Veta in Madrid, Spain (2024); WHAAM! in New York, NY (2024); Jeffrey Deitch in Los Angeles, CA (2024); Anthony Gallery in Chicago, IL (2024); No Name in Paris, France (2023); Jessica Silverman in San Francisco, CA (2023); Sow & Tailor in Hong Kong, China (2023); Public Access in New York (2023); K11 in Hong Kong, China (2022); and elsewhere.