Alex Gibson is a visual artist and computer programmer researching online artistic collaboration for a Master of Fine Art (MFA) at the University of Melbourne (VCA). He received his Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) at the Victorian College of the Arts (2006) after living and exhibiting in Tokyo, Japan (2005). He completed a Diploma of Visual Arts at the Box Hill Institute of TAFE (2001). He has received the Stoll Trust Award (2001), Friends of the VCA Award (2003), George Hicks Prize (2004), LWL Award (2006), Orloff Family Trust Award (2006) and the Australian Postgraduate Award (2007-2008). He was shortlisted for the Wallara Award (2004), Elizabeth Murdoch Award (2005) and the Experimenta New Vision Commission (2006). He has exhibited his work at various galleries in Melbourne and Tokyo including The Tokyo International Exhibition Center: Bigsite (2005), Fortyfive Downstairs (2006), Craft Victoria (2006), Seventh Gallery (2007), Counterpoint (2007) and Bus (2007).