Alex Sun

Alex Sun

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Selected works 

Painting across places and memory,  Alex Sun explores how landscape, figures and lived experience are transformed by distance and time. 

Huangpu river 2024 120x90cm acrylic on canvas

Huangpu river 2024 120x90cm acrylic on canvas

After Hunan 2025 Acrylic on Canvas 100x150cm

After Hunan 2025 Acrylic on Canvas 100x150cm

Dancer 3 2024 Acrylic on Canvas 120x150cm

Dancer 3 2024 Acrylic on Canvas 120x150cm

Hail 2024 Acrylic on Canvas 120x150cm

Hail 2024 Acrylic on Canvas 120x150cm

A 2015 Farewell Ansonia 2024 Acrylic on Canvas 60x80cm

A 2015 Farewell Ansonia 2024 Acrylic on Canvas 60x80cm

Bali Revisited 2024 Acrylic on Canvas 80x100cm

Bali Revisited 2024 Acrylic on Canvas 80x100cm

Spring in yellow mountain 2023 Acrylic on Canvas 60x80cm

Spring in yellow mountain 2023 Acrylic on Canvas 60x80cm

Twin engines 2024 Acrylic on Canvas 120x150cm

Twin engines 2024 Acrylic on Canvas 120x150cm

Waves in Batu Bolong 2025 Acrylic on Canvas 100x150cm

Waves in Batu Bolong 2025 Acrylic on Canvas 100x150cm

Victoria Harbour 2025 Acrylic on Canvas 150x150cm

Victoria Harbour 2025 Acrylic on Canvas 150x150cm

Tiong Bahru 2024 Acrylic on Canvas 40x60cm

Tiong Bahru 2024 Acrylic on Canvas 40x60cm

About 

Alex Sun is a Shanghai-born Canadian painter whose practice has unfolded across nearly three decades and several continents. Drawing on places lived in, left behind and returned to, her work explores how memory transforms landscapes, people and moments of lived experience. 

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