Pioneer Works
Artist in Residence
New York, NY
Summer-Fall 2026 

Headlands Center for the Arts
Chamberlain Award for Social Practice and Artist in Residence
Summer 2026

Narrating Displacement: Testimony, Housing, and Migration
Public program with writer Valeria Luiselli, scholar Alexandra Delano Alonso, and Maria Ponce Sevilla of Mixteca to activate Public Address
Brooklyn Public Library in partnership with Storefront for Art and Architecture
Brooklyn, NY
April 18, 2026


Homes for People, Not for Profit: Discussion and Workshop
Public program with Artists Against Displacement to activate Public Address
Storefront for Art and Architecture
New York, NY 
March 10, 2026


“The Artist is Present” 
By Diana Budds in Urban Omnibus
March 5, 2026


“Signs of Change”
By Jessica Angima in Urban Omnibus
January 28, 2026

“Alex Strada with Gaby Collins-Fernandez”
The Brooklyn Rail
December/January 2025-26


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


Public Address
Citywide public artwork 
Storefront for Art and Architecture
Petrosino Square, Manhattan (with subsequent iterations in Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, and Staten Island) 
October 18, 2025-March 22, 2026 (Manhattan dates)
Curated by Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa (Storefront) and organized by Kendal Henry (DCLA)


“Adapt/Evolve in New York showcases ‘empathy’ in designing for accessibility”
By Ellen Eberhardt in Dezeen
October 7, 2025

Public workshop with Tali Keren and UC Berkeley Professor of Law Khiara M. Bridges 
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA 
January 14, 2023

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

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


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


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


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


Visiting Artist for Film & Video Lecture Series
Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art
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
October 20, 2022–March 19, 2023
Curated by Martin Strickland and Amy Kisch


Emergency Grant
Foundation for Contemporary Arts 
2023


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


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


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


New York Artadia Award
With Tali Keren
2022


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


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


Call to Care: Protecting Flushing Creek through the Rights of Nature
Public workshop 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


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


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


“Editors’ Picks”
By Sarah Cascone in Artnet
October 19, 2021


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


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


Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?
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


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


“What Sustained Us: Alex Strada on Shelly Silver”
Contribution to BOMB Magazine
December 22, 2020


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


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


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


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


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


2020 Technology Immersion Fellowship
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 Ilana Harris-Babou
UnionDocs
Brooklyn, NY
October 20, 2019
Curated by Mathilde Walker-Billaud


Vehicle: Alex Strada
Sunview Luncheonette
Brooklyn, NY
September 30, 2019


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


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


Fictive Witness: Dead Presidents
Lecture-performance with Tali Keren and architectural theorist Mabel O. Wilson
Goethe Institute
New York, NY
October 24, 2018


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


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


Fictive Witness: Branding the Dream
Lecture-performance with Tali Keren and legal scholar Kendall Thomas
Goethe Institute
New York, NY
February 13, 2018


Community Engagement Grant  
Rema Hort Mann Foundation
2018


“Alex Strada is Contractually Binding her Collectors to Support Emerging Female Artists”
By Isaac Kaplan in Artsy
November 1, 2017