Alex Strada is an artist and educator based in New York City whose work spans installation, film/video, sound and orality, printed media, participatory workshops, and public practice. Through a research-based approach grounded in transdisciplinary collaboration and public engagement, her projects reimagine systems of power and create platforms for collectivity, civic agency, and political transformation. Since 2022, she has served as the Public Artist in Residence with the NYC Department of Homeless Services and the Department of Cultural Affairs.

Recent solo exhibitions and commissions include Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC; Queens Museum, NYC; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Project Row Houses, Houston, TX; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT; and Times Square Arts, NYC. Select group exhibitions and screenings include Aurora Biennial, Dallas, TX; Fashion Institute of Technology Art and Design Gallery, NYC; Anthology Film Archives, NYC; UnionDocs, NYC; Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; Museum of the Moving Image, NYC; Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Italy; Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Mexico; Listasafn Árnesinga Museum, Iceland; and MuseumsQuartier, Vienna. Strada’s projects have been featured in the New Yorker, BOMB, New York Times, Hyperallergic, Montez Press Radio, New York Magazine, and WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show. Her work has been supported through artist residencies at Artists Alliance Inc., Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Triangle Arts Association, Wexner Center for the Arts, and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center and through grants/fellowships from the Graham Foundation, Artadia, NYFA, NYSCA, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. 

Strada holds an M.F.A. in Visual Arts from Columbia University and is a studio alumnus of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program. She has taught at RISD, Tyler School of Art at Temple University, The Cooper Union, Columbia University, and in K-12 public schools throughout NYC with Studio in a School. She is Fine Arts Civic Engagement Fellow and faculty at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.