Alex Sheriff

Alex Sheriff is a Canadian artist and filmmaker. His work deals with mythologies, biology, and natural histories with a focus on evolution and extinction. He challenges our position as human beings in relation to all species and all matter. Using the familiar language of our own planet, Sheriff fills his worlds with peculiar animals, plants, people, geology, and then blends these categories. These worlds where all matter is equal can only be expressed through the language of abstraction. The inhabitants and their surroundings, often as malleable as wet paint, cannot be exactly described by science and therefore can only be understood through mythology. Dreamy narratives are important in Sheriff’s work, landing somewhere between folklore and a Kindergartner’s run-on sentence story.


Sheriff has shown his Participant Inc, New York, NY, Bluewolf, New York, NY, Project Gallery, Toronto, ON, and Alison Milne Gallery, Toronto, ON. He has also shown his films at the New Filmmakers @ Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY and the 2015 Toronto Short Film Festival, Toronto, ON.


Courtesy of the Artist's Site