ALEX STRADA





Artist Residency
Pioneer Works
New York, NY
Summer-Fall 2026



Artist Residency and Award

Headlands Center for the Arts
Chamberlain Award for Social Practice
Summer 2026



Public Program
Narrating Displacement
With writer Valeria Luiselli, scholar Alexandra Delano Alonso, and Maria Ponce Sevilla of Mixteca
Brooklyn Public Library in partnership with Storefront for Art and Architecture
Brooklyn, NY
April 18, 2026


Public Program
Homes for People, Not for Profit: Discussion and Workshop
With Artists Against Displacement
Storefront for Art and Architecture
New York, NY
March 10, 2026


Public Program
The Right to the City: Homelessness and Advocacy
With writer Jennifer Egan and Will Watts of Coalition for the Homeless
Storefront for Art and Architecture
New York, NY
October 25, 2025


Public Art Commission
Public Address

Storefront for Art and Architecture
October 18, 2025-March 22, 2026 (Petrosino Square, Manhattan)
March 22-summer 2026 (Columubs Park, Brooklyn)
Curated by Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa (Storefront) with support from Kendal Henry (DCLA)


Group Exhibition
Adapt/Evolve
Art and Design Gallery, Fashion Institute of Technology
Curated by Fawz Kabra
New York, NY
September 18-October 27, 2025


Activation
Recess Art
Mutual Aid Mobiles activated for weekly redistribution
Brooklyn, NY
March 19-August 9, 2025


Artist Residency
Triangle Art Association
Brooklyn, NY
March-June 2025


Grant
New York State Council on the Arts
Artist Grant in Interdisciplinary Art
2025


Solo Exhibition
Collective Mobilities

DeKalb Gallery at Pratt Institute
Socially engaged, mobile exhibition and mutual aid action
Brooklyn, NY
February 3-March 9, 2025



Public Program
Every Day is Migrants Day
CUNY Graduate Center
, organized by the United Nations Network on Migration and the CUNY Segal Theater Center
New York, NY
December 16, 2024



Public Art / Screening
Midnight Moment in Miami Beach
Art Basel Miami Beach, Soundscape Park
Miami, FL
December 4-8, 2024
Curated by Jean Cooney


Biennial
FuturePresentPast, Aurora Biennial
Dallas City Hall
Dallas, TX
November 16, 2024

Curated by Kendal Henry and Leslie Moody Castro


Solo Exhibition
Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?
In collaboration with Tali Keren
Project Row Houses
Houston, TX
September 28, 2024-January 26, 2025
Curated by Danielle Burns-Wilson


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


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


Public Program
Gender Justice Beyond Borders: Our Collective Fight
New York University
New York, NY
March 15, 2024


Public Program
NYC Partnering for Migration Justice Summit
Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School
New York, NY
February 2, 2024


Biennial
BINEALSUR  
Buenos Aires, Argentina
December 1, 2023-March 31, 2024
Curated by Diana B. Wechsler


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



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


Solo Exhibition
Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?
In collaboration with Tali Keren
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Ridgefield, CT
July 15-September 17, 2023
Curated by Namulen Bayarsaihan


Award
Graham Foundation Research Award
2023


Public Program
Moving Chains: Toward Abolition
Creative Time
Governors Island, NYC
May 20, 2023
Organized by Diya Vij and Che Gossett


Public Program
If Housing Was a Human Right in U.S. Law
With Tali Keren, advocate Domonique Walker of Moms 4 Housing, and ACCE legal director Leah Simon-Weisburg
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
March 19, 2023



Public Program
Voices from the Past | Voices from the Present
With Tali Keren and UC Berkeley Professor of Law Khiara M. Bridges

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
January 14, 2023



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



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



Solo Exhibition
Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?
In collaboration with Tali Keren
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
October 20, 2022–March 19, 2023

Curated by Martin Strickland and Amy Kisch


Grant
Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Emergency Grant

2023


Artist Residency
Learning and Public Practice Artist-in-Residence
Wexner Center for the Arts

Columbus, OH
2022–2023


Group Exhibition
A Place to Live
Tiger Strikes Asteroid
Philadelphia, PA
June 25–July 30, 2022

Curated by Fred Schmidt-Arenales



Award
New York Artadia Award
With Tali Keren

2022


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


Public Program
Constituting Community
With Tali Keren, movement lawyer Derecka Purnell, and activist Nyle Fort Co-presented by the Queens Museum and New York Magazine
February 10, 2022


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


Public Program
We the People?// Nosotrxs la Gente?
With Tali Keren, CUNY Law Professor Julia Hernandez, and Guido Garaycochea
Queens Museum
Flushing, NY
October 24, 2021



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


Solo Exhibition
Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?
In collaboration with Tali Keren
Queens Museum
Flushing, NY
October 2, 2021 - February 13, 2022


Artist Residency
Year of Uncertainty Artist Residency and Fellowship
Queens Museum
Flushing, NY

2021-2022


Public Program
Fictive Witness: Monuments, Memory and the Art of Indigenous History
With Tali Keren and Native Studies Scholar Shari Huhndorf
Goethe-Institut
New York, NY
December 12, 2020



Public Program
Fictive Witness: Accounting for Integration
With Tali Keren, Education Scholar Noliwe Rooks, and Teens Take Charge Activist Whitney Stephenson
Goethe-Institut
New York, NY
November 14, 2020


Public Program
Fictive Witness: The Imperial Presidency and Police Power
With Tali Keren, sociologist Alex S. Vitale and historian Nikhil Pal Singh
Goethe-Institut
New York, NY
October 25, 2020


Award
Women’s Fund for Media Artists Grant
New York Foundation for the Arts
2020


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


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


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



Screening
Vehicle: Alex Strada

Sunview Luncheonette
Brooklyn, NY
September 30, 2019



Public Program
Artist Contract 2017-

With art historian Lauren van Haaften-Schick
Darling Green 
March 27, 2019


Group Exhibition
Double Negative
Darling Green
New York, NY
March 5-31, 2019
Curated by Jeremy Johnston 


Public Program
Fictive Witness: On the Imaginary Domain, or Who Gets to Be a Person?  
With Tali Keren and feminist scholar Drucilla Cornell
Goethe Institute
New York, NY
November 27, 2018



Public Program
Fictive Witness: Dead Presidents
With Tali Keren and architectural theorist Mabel O. Wilson
Goethe Institute
New York, NY
October 24, 2018



Public Program
Fictive Witness: Branding the Dream
With Tali Keren and legal scholar Kendall Thomas
Goethe Institute
New York, NY
February 13, 2018



Grant
Community Engagement Grant  
Rema Hort Mann Foundation
2018