Alex Strada

Alex Strada is a socially engaged artist whose multimedia projects reimagine oppressive social systems and create platforms for collective dreaming and political transformation. She collaborates with scholars, activists, organizations, artists, and students across fields to create multi-disciplinary works that incite activation. Since 2022, she has served as the inaugural Public Artist in Residence with the New York City Department of Homeless Services and the Department of Cultural Affairs.

Recent solo exhibitions include Storefront for Art and Architecture; Queens Museum; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Project Row Houses; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; and Times Square Arts. Selected group exhibitions and screenings include Aurora Biennial; BIENALSUR; Fondazione Antonio Ratti; Museum of the Moving Image; Socrates Sculpture Park; and Anthology Film Archives. Strada’s work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Graham Foundation, Artadia, NYFA, NYSCA, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and through artist residencies at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Artists Alliance Inc., Headlands Center for the Arts, and Pioneer Works. Her projects have been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, and WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show.

Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, NY

MFA, Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY

BA, Art and Visual Culture, Bates College, Lewiston, ME