Chamberlain Award for Social Practice and Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA
Summer 2025
Facutly Development Fund, Pratt Institute
Brooklyn, NY
“Art for a Better World” in ART Das Kunstmagazin, by Claudia Bodin
March 2025
“Alex Strada Says ‘No’ to NIMBYs” in Hyperallergic by Lisa Yin Zhang
March 2, 2025
Artist in Residence, Triangle Art Association
Brooklyn, NY
March-June 2025
2025 New York State Council for the Arts Artist Grant (Interdisciplinary Art)
Collective Mobilities
Socially engaged, mobile exhibition and mutual aid action
DeKalb Gallery, Pratt Institute
Brooklyn, NY
February 3-March 9, 2025
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
“Right to Shelter” essay in On the Ground: Reader published by the Storefront for Art and Architecture
Released December 13, 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
LES Studio Program Artist Residency, Artists Alliance Inc.
New York, NY
August 2024-February 2025
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
Workspace Artist Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
New York, NY
2023-2024
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
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
March 2025
“Alex Strada Says ‘No’ to NIMBYs” in Hyperallergic by Lisa Yin Zhang
March 2, 2025
Artist in Residence, Triangle Art Association
Brooklyn, NY
March-June 2025
2025 New York State Council for the Arts Artist Grant (Interdisciplinary Art)
Collective Mobilities
Socially engaged, mobile exhibition and mutual aid action
DeKalb Gallery, Pratt Institute
Brooklyn, NY
February 3-March 9, 2025
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
“Right to Shelter” essay in On the Ground: Reader published by the Storefront for Art and Architecture
Released December 13, 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
LES Studio Program Artist Residency, Artists Alliance Inc.
New York, NY
August 2024-February 2025
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
Workspace Artist Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
New York, NY
2023-2024
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
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
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
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 Pietrobon as part of REDISTRIBUTION
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
Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program, Aesthetics & Pedagog at Jack Shainman Gallery
New York, NY
2019-2020
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