Alex Bond, Professional Resume

Award-Winning and Professional Artist Specializing in Telling Site-Specific Stories Through Extraordinary Public Art Installations

Email: alexandervinogradovbond@gmail.com

Tel: (970) 403-2947

Website: alexbondartwork.com

Instagram: @TurningWildStudios

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Public Art Installations

Superbloom
Four Canyons Parkway Roundabout, Grand Junction, CO

In collaboration with Grand Junction Arts and Culture Council, City Architects, and Earth Art Engineering, Superbloom is a whimsical, colorful, abstract flower bouquet, permanently installed in a prominent roundabout that tells a unique, yet relatable story of blossoming into our full potential. Installed October 2025. Contact: Haley Van Camp, Arts and Culture Coordinator, (970) 254-3876

Birth of Innovation
Community College of Aurora’s College of Applied Science and Technology, Aurora, CO

In collaboration with Colorado Creative Industries, Hausmann Construction, and AEC-West Consultants, Birth of Innovation is a series of three large-scale spherical forms that narrates the relationship between humans and technology. Installed May 2025.
Contact: Ruth Wilson, Administration and Partnerships Director, (303) 880-6671

Under the Flesh
Downtown Moab, Utah.

Working alongside Moab ArtTrails, ‘Under the Flesh’ examines the modern and evolving relationship between humans and machines through vividly contrasting textures and color. Installed October 2025.

Industrosphere
Downtown Monument, CO.

In collaboration with the Town of Monument, Industrosphere is a steel sculpture in spherical form and comprises heritage agricultural components that unites Colorado’s agricultural past with a technological future. Installed May 2025.

Rodeo
Silverthorne Recreational Path, Silverthorne, CO.

In collaboration with the Town of Silverthorne and Art Spot, Rodeo is a steel sculpture that leverages storied and industrial steel components to honor Colorado’s western and rodeo culture. Installed March 2025.

Untied
Downtown Palisade, CO.

In collaboration with Palisade Art Vision and City of Palisade, Untied is a steel sculpture that narrates a mysterious hidden energy that yields our creative and community power. Installed October 2024.

Conception
Downtown Manitou Springs, CO.

In collaboration with the Creative Alliance of Manitou Springs and the City of Manitou Springs, Conception is a steel sculpture that heightens the conversation around the conception of human life. Installed July 2024.

Handmade
Downtown Manitou Springs, CO.

In collaboration with Creative Alliance of Manitou Springs and the City of Manitou Springs, Handmade is carved from Colorado Yule Marble and aims to honor the vitality and possibilities of the human hand. Installed July 2024.

Atomical
Downtown Lafayette, CO.

In collaboration with the City of Lafayette, the Arts and Culture District of Lafayette, Hoff Construction, and City Architects and Engineers, Atomical is a steel sculpture that uses scale to reflect the energy and motion of an atom by making it life-size. In the process, the line between science and magic becomes invisible.

Installed April 2024.

Whispers in Water
Santa Rita Park, Durango, CO

In collaboration with the City of Durango, Lodgers Tax Arts and Culture, Durango Wastewater Reclamation Center, Durango Parks and Recreation, and City Architects, Whispers in Water is a playful and kinesthetic installation that uses sound to carry messages within a spherical form, the way water carries messages downstream through generations, according to certain cultures. Installed March 2024.

Dragonfly
Animas City Park, Durango, CO.

In collaboration with the City of Durango, Lodgers Tax Arts and Culture, and Durango Parks and Recreation, Dragonfly is a whimsical metal sculpture that blends industrial and natural textures to create an inspiring amalgamation in the form of a dragonfly. Installed October 2023.

Unraveling
Cottonwood Park, Mancos, CO

In collaboration with the Mancos Creative District, Town of Mancos, and Mancos Parks Department, Unraveling is a steel sculpture in spherical form that represents a disruption to perfection. The sculpture begs people to consider that perfection is only made possible by imperfection. Installed October 2023.

Pufferphish
Downtown Loveland, CO

In collaboration with Loveland TAAP, City of Loveland, Loveland Art in Public Spaces, and Hoff Construction, Pufferphish is a humongous steel fish born from storied steel that brings a smile to everyone in its wake. Installed May 2023.

References

Haley VanCamp, Arts and Culture Coordinator, City of Grand Junction. (970) 254-3876, Haley.vancamp@gjcity.org

Ruth Wilson, Administration and Partnership Director, Colorado Creative Industries. (303) 880-6671, Ruth.Wilson@state.co.us

Sarah Dishong, Project Coordinator, Downtown Grand Junction. (970) 852-9041, sarah@downtowngj.org

Relevant Professional and Community Contributions

Marble/Marble Stone Carving Symposium

Marble, CO. Staff. June 2025-August 2025.

Turning Wild Studios

Mancos, CO. Owner, Lead Teacher. Feb. 2021- present

Mancos School of the West

Mancos, CO. Instructor. January 2022-present.

Durango MakerLab

Durango, CO. Instructor, Welding and Blacksmithing. 2023-present.