Alfonso Gonzalez Jr. (b. 1989, Los Angeles; lives and works in Los Angeles) is an artist whose practice draws from his early exposure to his father’s work as a commercial sign painter. His paintings reflect on the material and visual language of hand-painted signage and the weathered surfaces of Los Angeles, tracing familial histories of labor and image-making. Often read as still lifes, his works examine the layered interactions that accumulate on public surfaces, functioning as contemporary palimpsests in which traces of prior histories remain visible.

 

His solo exhibition In Between Stops is on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art through December 1, 2026. Select solo exhibitions include No Parking at Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2025); This Was Here at Jeffrey Deitch, New York (2024); and There Was There at Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2022). Notable group exhibitions include Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2024–25); Singular Views: Los Angeles at the Rubell Museum, Miami (2023); Fire Figure Fantasy at ICA Miami (2022); Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (2026); and Aztlán, túnel del tiempo at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (2026).

 

His work is held in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, ICA Miami, the Rubell Museum, and the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.