Alex Strada is a New York City-based interdisciplinary artist whose socially engaged work reimagines systems of power and creates platforms for collectivity and transformation. Working across sculpture and installation, video, photography, archives, and public practice, her projects are often long-term, unfolding through sustained collaborations that shape their process, form, and circulation. Since 2022, Strada 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 and public art commissions 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; MuseumsQuartier Wein; and Kaunas Biennial.
Strada’s work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, and WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show. Her practice has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Graham Foundation, Artadia, NYFA, NYSCA, and Rema Hort Mann Foundation, and through artist residencies at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Pioneer Works, and Headlands Center for the Arts. Strada holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University and was a studio participant in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program. She is Visiting Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute and Charles C. Bergman Endowed Visiting Professor in Studio Art at Stony Brook University.