Alex Strada
Bio: Alex Strada is an artist and educator based in New York City. Her work has been shown internationally at venues including the Socrates Sculpture Park, Anthology Film Archives, Museum of Moving Image, Goethe-Institut, Jewish Museum, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, National Museum of Iceland in Reykjavik, MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, Kaunas Biennial in Lithuania, and on the screens of Times Square with Time Square Arts' Midnight Moment. Strada was a fellow in the Art & Law Program, the Institute for Investigative Living at A-Z West, and the Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship. Her work has been written about in Artsy, Vice, and The New Yorker. Strada received a B.A. from Bates College in 2010, an M.F.A. in Visual Art from Columbia University in 2016, and she was a 2018-2019 studio participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program.
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: My work explores the politics of history and representation. I conduct fieldwork in cultural sites and institutions in order to deconstruct the systems of power that perpetuate collective memory. I research and gather existing material, which I subsequently dismantle and reimagine to create alternative narratives. This process results in video, photography, installation, public art, and writing.
Save the Presidents, collaboration with Tali Keren, (4k video projected onto the screens of Times Square, 2018)