ALEX STRADA




2025 New York State Council for the Arts Artist Grant (Interdisciplinary Art)


Every Day is Migrants Day

Public program focused on artists and organizations that foreground migrant narratives. Organized by the United Nations Network on Migration and the CUNY Segal Theater Center.
CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
December 16, 2024


“Tali Keren & Alex Strada” in Midnight Moment published by Monacelli Press/Phaidon with text by Jean Cooney and Charlotte Kent 
Released November 26, 2024


Times Square Arts: Midnight Moment in Miami Beach, Art Basel Miami Beach
Public video art exhibtion featuring Save the Presidents on view at Soundscape Park as part of Art Basel Miami Beach
Curated by Jean Cooney
Miami, Florida 
December 4-8, 2024


FuturePresentPast, Aurora Biennial
Technology-driven public art biennial exhibition featuring Save the Presidnets at Dallas City Hall
Curated by Kendal Henry and Leslie Moody Castro
Dallas, Texas
November 16, 2024



“NYC Housing Stories: Alicia Boyd and Alex Strada” in Hyperallergic by Noah Fischer 
November 7, 2024


The Art of Politics 
Public program on creative approaches to civic engagement with political economist Jan Dutkiewicz
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY  
October 10, 2024 


Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?
Solo exhibition of site-specific participatory installation made in collaboration with Tali Keren
Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
Curated by Danielle Burns-Wilson
September 28, 2024-January 26, 2025


2024-2025 LES Studio Program Artist Residency, Artists Alliance Inc., New York, NY



New York 2044: Alex Strada
Newspaper art project that proposes a city we want to inhabit in 2024 by artist Noah Fischer for More Art 
June 2024


Civic Engagement Fellow, Fine Arts Department 
Full-time faculty position at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY


Gender Justice Beyond Borders: Our Collective Fight
Public Program as part of the Global Gender and Migration Forum 2024 
New York University, New York, NY
March 15, 2024 


Open Session #7: Hosted by Alex Strada
Public program on the Right to Shelter with Will Watts from the Coalition for the Homeless and Dr. Henry Love from Women in Need (WIN)
Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY 
February 20, 2024


Artist talk at Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT 
February 12, 2024


NYC Partnering for Migration Justice Summit
Panelist on housing justice as part of a public program organized by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School, New York, NY
February 2, 2024


Sede Virtual
BINEALSUR biennial exhibition featuring On Borders, Sovereignty, and the Limitations of “We the People” in the U.S. Constitution, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Curated by Diana B. Wechsler
December 1 2023-March 31 2024


Seth Siegelaub: Textile Art Theory
Group exhibition featuring Artist Contract at the Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
Curated by Lauren van Haaften-Schick and Marja Bloem
October 6, 2023-January 7, 2024


2023-2024 Workspace Artist Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY


Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System? 
Solo exhibition of site-specific participatory installation made in collaboration with Tali Keren 
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Sculpture Garden), Ridgefield, CT
Curated by Namulen Bayarsaihan
July 15-September 17, 2023


2023 Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts Award for House of D


Moving Chains: Toward Abolition 
Public presentation with Tali Keren as part of a daylong symposium on abolition inspired by Charles Gaines’s Moving Chains
Organized by Diya Vij and Che Gossett 
Creative Time, Governors Island, NYC
May 20, 2023


Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System? featured in “The Museum: A New Social Sculpture” in Spike Magazine by Simon Wu
April 2023


Artist Contract featured in “NFTs, Smart Contracts, & DAOs: A Resource for Creatives,” by Alex Glancy for the Center for Cultural Innovation
March 2023


Artist Talk at UC Berkeley School of Law 
Berkeley, CA
March 20, 2023 


If Housing Was a Human Right in U.S. Law

Public Workshop organized with Tali Keren, advocate Domonique Walker of Moms 4 Housing, and ACCE legal director Leah Simon-Weisburg
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Fransisco, CA
March 19, 2023



“Alex Strada and Tali Keren’s Art Installation Invites Critical Reflection on the U.S. Constitution” in
Artist Power Center 
March 2023


Voices from the Past | Voices from the Present 
Public workshop organized with Tali Keren and UC Berkeley Professor of Law Khiara M. Bridges 
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Fransisco, CA 
January 14, 2023


2023 New York State Council for the Arts Artist Grant (Interdisciplinary Art)


“Artadia Increases Grant in Response to Inflation” in Hyperallergic by Elaine Velie
December 2022


“New York City’s 2022–23 cohort of Public Artists in Residence will develop art projects addressing city issues” in The Architect’s Newspaper by Trevor Schillac
November 2022


“New York Mayor Eric Adams Has Tapped a Team of Four Artists to Help Him Solve Gun Violence, Homelessness, and Other Problems” in Artnet by Eileen Kinsella
November 2022


2022-2023 Public Artist in Residence with the New York City Department of Homeless Services and the Department of Cultural Affairs


Guest Artist with Film & Video Lecture Series at MICA
November 2, 2022


Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?
Solo exhibition of site-specific participatory installation made in collaboration with Tali Keren
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Curated by Martin Strickland and Amy Kisch 
October 20, 2022–March 19, 2023



2023 Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts 


2022–2023 Learning and Public Practice Artist-in-Residence at the Wexner Center for the Arts


A Place to Live
Group show at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA
Curated by Fred Schmidt-Arenales
June 25–July 30, 2022



Guest Lecturer and Visiting Critic at Rhode Island School of Design
Power, Pastness, and Performances of Monumentality 
Providence, Rhode Island
May 13th, 2022


2022 New York Artadia Awardees Announced: Kim Dacres, Jeffrey Meris, Alex Strada + Tali Keren


Soapbox Oral Archive
Radio Segment on Montez Press Radio with Tali Keren
February 24, 2022


Defending Our Bodily Autonomy in a Broken System: Reproductive Justice, Self-Defense and Community Care
Public workshop organized with Tali Keren, Deena Hadhoud of Malikah, and CUNY Law Professor Cindy SooHoo
Queens Museum, Flushing, NY  
February 12, 2022


Constituting Community: Dreaming and Constitutional Abolition in Honor of Trayvon Martin’s Life
Online discussion organized with Tali Keren, Derecka Purnell, and Nyle Fort
Co-presented by the Queens Museum and New York Magazine
February 10, 2022


“Your 28th Amendment?” on The Brian Lehrer Show 
Interview and live call-in segment with Tali Keren, Julia Hernandez, and Brian Lehrer on WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show
December 8, 2021


Call to Care: Protecting Flushing Creek through the Rights of Nature
Public workshop organized with Tali Keren, lawyer Cheif Harry Wallace, CUNY Law Professor Rebecca Bratspies, Tecumseh Cesar, and Rebecca Pryor of Guardians of Flushing Bay
Queens Museum, Flushing, NY 
December 5, 2021


We the People?// Nosotrx la Gente?
Public workshop organized with Tali Keren, CUNY Law Professor Julia Hernandez, and Guido Garaycochea of the New New Yorkers 
Queens Museum, Flushing, NY 
October 24, 2021


Accessible Amendments
Live radio conversation with Tali Keren, Seb Cho, and Catherine Grau
Montez Press Radio
October 25, 2022


“Editors’ Picks” in Artnet by
Sarah Cascone


Teen Power Political Futures
Public workshop organized with Tali Keren, the Queens Teens, and CUNY Law Professor Charisa Kiyô Smith
Queens Museum, Flushing, NY 
October 2 and 9, 2021


“5 Things to Do This Weekend” in The New York Times by Melissa Smith
September 30, 2021


Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System? Healing Justice Circle with Malikah
Healing justice event organized with Tali Keren and Deena Hadhoud
Queens Museum, Flushing, NY 
October 1, 2021


Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?
Solo exhibition of site-specific participatory installation made in collaboration with Tali Keren
Queens Museum, Flushing, NY
October 2, 2021 - February 13, 2022


2021-2022 Year of Uncertainty Artist Residency and Fellowship at the Queens Museum, Flushing, NY 


“What Sustains Us: Alex Strada on Shelly Silver” in BOMB Magazine
December 22, 2020


Fictive Witness: Monuments, Memory and the Art of Indigenous History
Online lecture-performance and collaboration with Tali Keren and Shari Huhndorf
Goethe-Institut, New York, NY
December 12, 2020



Fictive Witness: Accounting for Integration
Online lecture-performance and collaboration with Tali Keren, Noliwe Rooks, and Whitney Stephenson
Presented by the Goethe-Institut, New York, NY
November 14, 2020


“Probing the Finished Work: Alex Strada Interviewed by Simon Wu” in BOMB Magazine
November 11, 2020


Fictive Witness: The Imperial Presidency and Police Power
Online lecture-performance and collaboration with Tali Keren,  Alex S. Vitale and Nikhil Pal Singh
Goethe-Institut, New York, NY
October 25, 2020


2020 NYFA Women’s Fund for Media Artists Grant Recipient


2020 Technology Immersion Fellowship at Harvestworks Digital Arts Center, New York, NY


a kind of step in a flawed system
Podcast interview with Lauren van Haaften Schick and Kenneth Pietrobono
as part of REDISTRIBUTION at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY


Fine Lines: Truth, Desire and Displacement
Screening and discussion with artists Ilana Harris-Babou and Alex Strada
Curated by Mathilde Walker-Billaud
UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY
October 20, 2019


Vehicle: Alex Strada

Sunview Luncheonette, Brooklyn, NY
September 30, 2019



2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program, Aesthetics & Pedagog at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY 


Fictive Witness: On the Imaginary Domain, or Who Gets to Be a Person? 
Lecture-performance and collaboration with Tali Keren and Drucilla Cornell
Ludlow 38 MINI/Goethe, New York, NY
November 27, 2018



Fictive Witness: Dead Presidents
Lecture-performance and collaboration with Tali Keren and Mabel Wilson
Ludlow 38 MINI/Goethe, New York, NY
October 24, 2018



“Midnight Moment” in The New Yorker by Matthew Trammell
February 18, 2018 (print and online)


“Zombie Presidents are Taking Over Times Square” in VICE by Osman Can Yerebakan
February 12, 2018


Fictive Witness: Branding the Dream
Lecture-performance and collaboration with Tali Keren and Kendall Thomas
Ludlow 38 MINI Goethe, New York, NY
February 13, 2018



2018 Rema Hort Mann Artist Community Engagement Grant Recipient 


“Alex Strada is Contractually Binding her Collectors to Support Emerging Female Artists” in Artsy by Isaac Kaplan

November 1, 2017