Alex Strada is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and educator whose research-driven, socially engaged work reimagines systems of power and creates platforms for collectivity, civic agency, and transformation. Since 2022, she has served as the 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 featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, and WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show. Her practice 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, and Artists Alliance Inc., with forthcoming residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts and Pioneer Works.

Strada holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University and is a studio alumnus of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program. She teaches at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.