Adapt/Evolve
Art and Design Gallery, Fashion Institute of Technology
New York, NY
September 18-October 27, 2025
Group exhibition featuring Mutual Aid Mobiles
Curated by Fawz Kabra
Chamberlain Award for Social Practice and Artist in Residence
Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA
Summer 2025
Public Works: Act I
Performance organized by Aaron Landsman
Storefront for Art and Architecture at former TD Bank
New York, NY
June 21, 2025
2025-26 Faculty Development Fund
Pratt Institute
Brooklyn, NY
“Art for a Better World”
By Claudia Bodin in ART Das Kunstmagazin
March 2025
“How Artist-in-Residence Programs Help Shape the Art World”
By Taylor Michael in All Arts
May 29, 2025
Recess Art
Brooklyn, NY
March 19-August 9, 2025
Mutual Aid Mobiles activated for weekly redistribution
“Alex Strada Says ‘No’ to NIMBYs”
By Lisa Yin Zhang in Hyperallergic
March 2, 2025
Triangle Art Association
Artist in Residence
Brooklyn, NY
March-June 2025
Artist Grant (Interdisciplinary Art)
New York State Council for the Arts
2025
Collective Mobilities
DeKalb Gallery, Pratt Institute
Brooklyn, NY
February 3-March 9, 2025
Socially engaged, mobile exhibition and mutual aid action
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 program focused on artists and organizations that foreground migrant narratives.
“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
Text by Jean Cooney and Charlotte Kent
Released November 26, 2024
Times Square Arts: Midnight Moment in Miami Beach
Art Basel Miami Beach, Soundscape Park
Miami, Florida
December 4-8, 2024
Public video art exhibition featuring Save the Presidents
Curated by Jean Cooney
FuturePresentPast
Aurora Biennial, Dallas City Hall
Technology-driven public art biennial exhibition featuring Save the Presidents
Dallas, Texas
November 16, 2024
Curated by Kendal Henry and Leslie Moody Castro
“NYC Housing Stories: Alicia Boyd and Alex Strada”
By Noah Fischer in Hyperallergic
November 7, 2024
The Art of Politics
Public program 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
September 28, 2024-January 26, 2025
Curated by Danielle Burns-Wilson
LES Studio Program Artist Residency
Artists Alliance Inc.
New York, NY
August 2024-February 2025
New York 2044: Alex Strada
Newspaper art project by artist Noah Fischer for More Art
June 2024
Undoing the Border Fantasy
Group exhibition
Schafler Gallery at Pratt Institute
October 16-December 7, 2024
Brooklyn, NY
Curated by Swati Piparsania and Jess Saldaña
Civic Engagement Fellow
Full-time faculty position in Fine Arts 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 migration and housing justice public program
Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School
New York, NY
February 2, 2024
Sede Virtual
BINEALSUR Biennial
Buenos Aires, Argentina
December 1 2023-March 31 2024
Curated by Diana B. Wechsler
Seth Siegelaub: Textile Art Theory
Group exhibition featuring Artist Contract
Fondazione Antonio Ratti
Como, Italy
October 6, 2023-January 7, 2024
Curated by Lauren van Haaften-Schick and Marja Bloem
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
July 15-September 17, 2023
Curated by Namulen Bayarsaihan
Graham Foundation Research Award
For House of D
2023
Moving Chains: Toward Abolition
Public presentation with Tali Keren
Part of symposium on abolition inspired by Charles Gaines’s Moving Chains
Creative Time
Governors Island, NYC
May 20, 2023
Organized by Diya Vij and Che Gossett
“The Museum: A New Social Sculpture”
By Simon Wu in Spike Magazine
April 2023
“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 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
Voices from the Past | Voices from the Present
By Taylor Michael in All Arts
May 29, 2025
Recess Art
Brooklyn, NY
March 19-August 9, 2025
Mutual Aid Mobiles activated for weekly redistribution
“Alex Strada Says ‘No’ to NIMBYs”
By Lisa Yin Zhang in Hyperallergic
March 2, 2025
Triangle Art Association
Artist in Residence
Brooklyn, NY
March-June 2025
Artist Grant (Interdisciplinary Art)
New York State Council for the Arts
2025
Collective Mobilities
DeKalb Gallery, Pratt Institute
Brooklyn, NY
February 3-March 9, 2025
Socially engaged, mobile exhibition and mutual aid action
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 program focused on artists and organizations that foreground migrant narratives.
“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
Text by Jean Cooney and Charlotte Kent
Released November 26, 2024
Times Square Arts: Midnight Moment in Miami Beach
Art Basel Miami Beach, Soundscape Park
Miami, Florida
December 4-8, 2024
Public video art exhibition featuring Save the Presidents
Curated by Jean Cooney
FuturePresentPast
Aurora Biennial, Dallas City Hall
Technology-driven public art biennial exhibition featuring Save the Presidents
Dallas, Texas
November 16, 2024
Curated by Kendal Henry and Leslie Moody Castro
“NYC Housing Stories: Alicia Boyd and Alex Strada”
By Noah Fischer in Hyperallergic
November 7, 2024
The Art of Politics
Public program 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
September 28, 2024-January 26, 2025
Curated by Danielle Burns-Wilson
LES Studio Program Artist Residency
Artists Alliance Inc.
New York, NY
August 2024-February 2025
New York 2044: Alex Strada
Newspaper art project by artist Noah Fischer for More Art
June 2024
Undoing the Border Fantasy
Group exhibition
Schafler Gallery at Pratt Institute
October 16-December 7, 2024
Brooklyn, NY
Curated by Swati Piparsania and Jess Saldaña
Civic Engagement Fellow
Full-time faculty position in Fine Arts 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 migration and housing justice public program
Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School
New York, NY
February 2, 2024
Sede Virtual
BINEALSUR Biennial
Buenos Aires, Argentina
December 1 2023-March 31 2024
Curated by Diana B. Wechsler
Seth Siegelaub: Textile Art Theory
Group exhibition featuring Artist Contract
Fondazione Antonio Ratti
Como, Italy
October 6, 2023-January 7, 2024
Curated by Lauren van Haaften-Schick and Marja Bloem
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
July 15-September 17, 2023
Curated by Namulen Bayarsaihan
Graham Foundation Research Award
For House of D
2023
Moving Chains: Toward Abolition
Public presentation with Tali Keren
Part of symposium on abolition inspired by Charles Gaines’s Moving Chains
Creative Time
Governors Island, NYC
May 20, 2023
Organized by Diya Vij and Che Gossett
“The Museum: A New Social Sculpture”
By Simon Wu in Spike Magazine
April 2023
“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 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
Voices from the Past | Voices from the Present
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Fransisco, CA
January 14, 2023
Artist Grant (Interdisciplinary Art)
New York State Council for the Arts
2023
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 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?// 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