David T. Alexander is an established, award-winning senior Canadian artist best known for his painted landscapes and abstract water reflections. Alexander’s signature landscapes (dry series) and waterscapes (wet series) represent his fifty-year history in painting and drawing, with a bold palette and gestural application. David T. Alexander studied at the Vancouver Art School and at Langara College’s art department before graduating with a BFA from Notre Dame University, Nelson, BC. In 1980, he moved to Saskatoon to obtain his master’s degree while researching in New York, London, and Paris.

In 2006, Alexander attended the Morris Graves Foundation in California as an invited guest artist-in-residence and completed a large body of small paintings on wood panels. In 2007, he visited Tokyo and Kyoto and was inspired by the parks and water features. In 2008, he returned to the High Arctic as an invited member aboard a 75-foot-long sailing ship that was circumnavigating North America through the Northwest Passage, where he sailed from Tuktoyaktuk, Canada, to Point Barrow, Alaska. The expedition, Nord 69, consisted of artists, scientists, and writers raising cultural and environmental awareness of global warming. In 2010, he was a resident in the Grand Canyon, and in 2012, he was a guest artist for two months in Taos, New Mexico. In 2018, Alexander was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Art, an honour granted to Canadian artists who have been nominated by their peers for a high level of achievement, creativity, and skill. He has travelled the world to attend his exhibitions and conduct lectures and drawing and painting research.

Alexander’s work can be found in public, private, and corporate collections, including the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Museum of London, the University of Toronto, Concordia University in Montreal, the Museum of Art in Iceland, Canada House in London, the HBC Global Art Collection in New York, and Canadian embassies in Berlin, Beijing, and Krakow. His work can also be found throughout Canadian cities, as well as in Dubai, Seoul, New York, Mumbai, and Nice, France, among others.