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ALEX STRADA
Recent Projects
Proposal for a 28th Amendment?
Is it Possible to Amend an
Unequal System?
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Queens Museum
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
truths
Artist Contract
Save the Presidents
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National Park
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Midnight Moment
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Fictive Witness
was, as we know, history
News
About
ALEX STRADA
Artist Talk at UC Berkeley School of Law
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
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 Recipient (Interdisciplinary Art)
“Artadia Increases Grant in Response to Inflation”
in
Hyperallergic
by Elaine Velie
“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
2022-2023 Public Artist in Residence with the New York City Department of Homeless Services and the Department of Cultural Affairs
“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
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?
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
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
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 5th, 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
“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
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?
Site-specific participatory installation made in collaboration with Tali Keren
Queens Museum, Flushing, NY
October 2, 2021 - February 13, 2022
“What Sustains Us: Alex Strada on Shelly Silver” in
BOMB Magazine
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
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
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 & Pedagogy
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
(print and online) by Matthew Trammell
“Zombie Presidents are Taking Over Times Square”
in
VICE
by Osman Can Yerebakan
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
Article on
Artist Contract
by Isaac Kaplan