Dan Alva

May 8 — Ever Thus 🇨🇦 Solo exhibition at @galerieleroyer Montréal. 🇨🇦

Ever Thus is now on view at GLR41 Montréal, marking Dan Alva’s new solo exhibition! 🥂 History rarely stays still: rooted in classical imagery and built through camouflage, distortion, and visual interruption, Alva’s (@dan.alva ) practice treats history as something unstable: not preserved, but reworked, concealed, and seen again. Across the exhibition, familiar icons shift between memory, desire, and image culture, suspended in the tension between what is recognizable and what begins to disappear. 📍On view through May 20 at / En vue jusqu’au 20 mai à GLR41 | 41 rue Saint-Paul Ouest, Montréal ••• L’histoire reste rarement immobile : ancrée dans l’imagerie classique et construite par le camouflage, la distorsion et l’interruption visuelle, la pratique d’Alva aborde l’histoire comme une matière instable : non pas préservée, mais retravaillée, dissimulée, puis redécouverte. À travers l’exposition, des icônes familières glissent entre mémoire, désir et culture de l’image, suspendues dans la tension entre ce qui demeure reconnaissable et ce qui commence à disparaître. 🔗 Discover new collection / Découvrez la nouvelle collection: [email protected] #galerieleroyer #glr #montreal #toronto #danalva

What happens when classical imagery begins to disappear? 📌 Opening May 8 at GLR41 Montreal: Ever Thus, a solo exhibition by Dan Alva (@dan.alva ) Rooted in classical imagery and built through camouflage, distortion, and visual interruption, Alva’s practice treats history as something unstable: not preserved, but reworked, concealed, and seen again. Figures emerge and disappear across layered surfaces, suspended between memory and erasure. In Ever Thus, the past becomes mutable, rewritten through each act of looking. 🗓️ 8 mai, de 17 h à 20 h / May 8, from 5–8pm. 📍 Montréal | 41 rue Saint-Paul O. Joignez-vous à nous pour le vernissage / Join us for the opening: [email protected] ••• 📌 Vernissage le 8 mai à GLR41 Montréal : Ever Thus, une exposition solo de Dan Alva. Ancrée dans l’imagerie classique et construite à travers le camouflage, la distorsion et l’interruption visuelle, la pratique d’Alva aborde l’histoire comme une matière instable : non pas préservée, mais retravaillée, dissimulée, puis redécouverte. Les figures émergent et disparaissent à travers des surfaces superposées, suspendues entre mémoire et effacement. Dans Ever Thus, le passé devient mouvant, réécrit à chaque regard. #galerieleroyer #glr #montreal #toronto #danalva

Next Friday ‘Ever Thus’ @galerieleroyer May 8th, 2026, 5pm GLR41 Montréal | 41 Rue Saint-Paul O Speak to my Associate, 2024, Oil on Canvas, 40” x 55”

Offer You Can’t Refuse, 2025, Oil on Canvas, 80” x 110”

Largest painting to date, being shown next week @galerieleroyer for my solo exhibition ‘Ever Thus’. A cross between Auguste Dominique Ingres and @damienhirst , this painting brings new light to the idea of interruption—where precision and control collide with chaos.

My most commissioned painting. A simple idea from 2020. Fine, I’ll paint another one.

Flashing back to Dan Alva at Square One Gallery (@dan.alva ) 💥 Head to squareonegallery.com to explore paintings from Dan Alva at SQ1 + get in touch 🔗 Inquiries and sales: [email protected] or DM #squareonegallery #danalva photos by @suzygormanphoto

New works headed to @galerieleroyer for my solo show titled ‘Ever Thus’ this May. These works play with the idea of what a painting is supposed to be. At first glance they appear to sit inside ornate, museum-style frames—but the frames are actually painted as part of the canvas itself. What looks like a traditional presentation device becomes part of the artwork. The Code of Silence, 2025, Oil on Canvas, 30X35” Loyalty is Earned, 2025, Oil on Canvas, 30X35” Keep Your Friends Close, 2025, Oil on Canvas, 30X35”

Sneak peek 👀 this May, Dan Alva will present his solo exhibition at GLR Montréal! A Miami-based contemporary artist with Spanish roots, Alva (@dan.alva ) was raised in his father’s garage, where he learned to build, deconstruct, and reinvent — a foundation that shaped the bold, layered voice of his work. In “Ever Thus,” his upcoming solo exhibition, classical iconography collides with contemporary visual chaos, blurring permanence and impermanence, tradition and rebellion. ••• Artiste contemporain basé à Miami et d’origine espagnole, Alva a grandi dans le garage de son père, où il a appris à construire, déconstruire et réinventer — une base qui a façonné la voix audacieuse et stratifiée de son travail. Dans « Ever Thus », sa prochaine exposition personnelle, l’iconographie classique entre en collision avec un chaos visuel contemporain, brouillant les frontières entre permanence et impermanence, tradition et rébellion. 🔗Stay tuned / Restez à l’écoute: [email protected] #galerieleroyer #glr #montreal #toronto #danalva

On the wall with Dan Alva featuring “Show Up Time” 💥 Head to the link in bio to learn more about #danalva + explore paintings at SQ1 Gallery 🔗 Inquiries and sales: [email protected] or DM Artwork Details: Show Up Time (2024) Oil on canvas 40 x 30 inches 101.6 x 76.2 cm Unique Photos by @suzygormanphoto #squareonegallery #danalva

In focus: Dan Alva intervenes in Ingres’ Portrait of Madame Devauçay, letting colour drift across the figure like a living veil. Bold, fluid forms fracture the portrait’s stillness, folding past and present into one image: where classical poise meets contemporary gesture in a quiet, charged tension. @dan.alva ••• Alva intervient dans le Portrait de Madame Devauçay d’Ingres, laissant la couleur glisser sur la figure comme un voile vivant. Des formes audacieuses et fluides viennent fracturer l’immobilité du portrait, mêlant passé et présent en une seule image, où la retenue classique rencontre le geste contemporain dans une tension à la fois subtile et chargée. 🔗 Disponible sur demande / Available upon inquiry: [email protected] #galerieleroyer #glr #montreal #toronto #danalva

The iconic “Great Wave” by Katsushika Hokusai (1830) just sold at @sothebys for US $2.8M to a private Japanese collector. Here are three smaller renditions of mine — framed and ready to ship before Basel. 🌊 Lay Low, Oil on canvas, 38” framed / DM for inquiries.