Career
His self-titled cosmology "Arcadia" provides the framework for his large scale paintings, sculptures and installations, which engage audiences as both post-Warholian popular, and deviant in the readymade tradition of Marcel Duchamp. Arcadia is best known for his "SuperGymnast" image, an erotically charged goddess and recurring central figure of power in his work. In the mid-1990s the SuperGymnast was planted by the tens of thousands throughout the streets of New York City as a tag, quickly making the symbol synonymous with the identity of the artist.
Arcadia debuted the SuperGymnast as sculpture atop his "Temple of Fame" (1999–2000).
Artifacts from "Temple of Fame" were featured in his first New York solo exhibition at Stefan Stux Gallery in 2001 entitled "SuperGymnast", reviewed in the New York Times. Alex Arcadia continues to define a new mythology he calls Bright Shiny Future (BSF).
He lives and works in New York City.