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Alex Strada

News

Public Program

Revisiting If You Lived Here: Lecture and Conversation with Martha Rosler Storefront for Art and Architecture New York, NY August 18, 2026

Press

Hyperallergic "15 Outdoor Art Shows to See in NYC This Summer" by Lisa Yin Zhang July 31, 2026

Artist Residency

Pioneer Works New York, NY Summer-Fall 2026

Artist Residency

Headlands Center for the Arts Chamberlain Award Sausalito, CA Summer 2026

Public Program

Public Address: A Reading With artist Pablo Helguera, architect Nandini Bagchee, writer Suketu Mehta, librarian and activist Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, community organizer and educator Rob Robinson, organizer Maria Ponce Sevilla, writer Samuel Stein, Arash Diba of VOCAL, scholar Alexandra Délano Alonso and Eva Raison, Director of Brooklyn Public Library's Outreach Services. Brooklyn Public Library x Storefront for Art and Architecture Brooklyn, NY June 8, 2026

Press

Weststern "Transforming Places into Spaces" by Julia Reich May 12, 2026

Press

The Architect's Newspaper "Alex Strada's Public Address turns city signage into testimony for New York's unhoused" by Marina Martinez-Pazzi April 7, 2026

Group Exhibition

abecedary;...a classroom show Brooklyn High School of the Arts Curated by Darling Green Brooklyn, NY March-June 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

Press

Urban Omnibus "The Artist is Present" by Diana Budds March 5, 2026

Press

Urban Omnibus "Signs of Change" by Jessica Angima January 28, 2026

Press

The Brooklyn Rail "Alex Strada with Gaby Collins-Fernandez" December/January 2025-26 (print and online)

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 (Columbus Park, Brooklyn) Curated by Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa (Storefront) with support from Kendal Henry (DCLA)

Press

Dezeen "Adapt/Evolve in New York showcases 'empathy' in designing for accessibility" by Ellen Eberhardt October 7, 2025

Group Exhibition

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

Press

ALL ARTS (PBS) "How Artist-in-Residence Programs Help Shape the Art World" by Taylor Michael May 29, 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

Press

ART Das Kunstmagazin "Art for a Better World" by Claudia Bodin March 2025

Press

Hyperallergic "Alex Strada Says 'No' to NIMBYs" by Lisa Yin Zhang March 2, 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

Press

On the Ground: Reader "Right to Shelter" by Alex Strada Published by Storefront for Art and Architecture Released December 13, 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

Book

Midnight Moment "Tali Keren & Alex Strada" by Jean Cooney and Charlotte Kent Published by Monacelli Press/Phaidon Released November 26, 2024

Biennial

FuturePresentPast, Aurora Biennial Dallas City Hall Dallas, TX November 16, 2024 Curated by Kendal Henry and Leslie Moody Castro

Press

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

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

BIENALSUR 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

Press

Spike Magazine "The Museum: A New Social Sculpture" by Simon Wu April 2023

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

Press

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

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

Press

Montez Press Radio "Soapbox Oral Archive" with Tali Keren February 24, 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

Press

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

Press

The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC "Your 28th Amendment?" live interview and call-in segment with Tali Keren, Julia Hernandez and Brian Lehrer December 8, 2021

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

Press

Artnet "Editors' Picks" by Sarah Cascone October 19, 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

Press

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

Artist Residency

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

Press

BOMB Magazine "What Sustained Us: Alex Strada on Shelly Silver" December 22, 2020

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

Press

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

Press

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

Public Program

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

Press

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

Grant

Community Engagement Grant Rema Hort Mann Foundation 2018

Press

Artsy "Alex Strada is Contractually Binding her Collectors to Support Emerging Female Artists" by Isaac Kaplan November 1, 2017