Alex Strada

Alex Strada is a socially engaged artist whose multimedia projects reimagine oppressive social systems and create platforms for collective dreaming and political transformation. She collaborates with scholars, activists, organizations, artists, and students across fields to create multi-disciplinary works that incite activation. Since 2022, she has served as the inaugural Public Artist in Residence with the New York City Department of Homeless Services and the Department of Cultural Affairs, where she is working on a new collaborative public art commission while developing art programming in shelters throughout New York City.

Her most recent project, Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System? (2021-) is a collaboration with artist Tali Keren that critically examines the U.S. Constitution and invites intervention. The exhibition is currently traveling around the U.S. in solo site-specific iterations at museums including Queens Museum in NYC (2021); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2022); Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT (2023); and Project Row Houses, Houston (2024; forthcoming).

Selected awards and grants include from the Graham Foundation (2023), Artadia (2022), New York State Council for the Arts (2021, 2023), Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2022), New York Foundation for the Arts (2020), and Rema Hort Mann Foundation (2018). She has been an artist-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2024), Artists Alliance Inc. (2024), the Wexner Center for the Arts (2022), Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center (2020), Socrates Sculpture Park (2017), and A-Z West (2017). Her projects have been featured in the New Yorker, BOMB, New York Times, New York Magazine, ArtNews, Montez Press Radio, and on NPR/WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show, among others.

Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, NY

MFA, Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY

BA, Art and Visual Culture, Bates College, Lewiston, ME