Alex Schweder
1970 geboren in New York City, NY, USA
lebt und arbeite in Berlin und Seattle, NM, USA
Ausbildung
2005-2006 American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, Fellow
1996-1998 Princeton University, School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ, USA
1988-1993 Pratt Institute, School of Architecture, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Ausgewählte Erungen und Preise
2010 Arts Victoria, Production Award, Melbourne Australia
International Artist Award, ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, MI
Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2009 Chinati Foundation, Artist in Residence, Marfa, TX
2008 Pollack-Krasner Award, New York, NY
John Michael Kohler Arts Centre, residency, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 2001, 2003
City Artists Grant, Mayor’s Office of Arts and Cultural affairs, 2004
Arts Special Projects Award, 4Culture
2007 Genius Award, The Stranger
Neddy Award Finalist, Behnke Family Foundation
2006 Artist Pension Trust, Los Angeles
Artist Trust Fellowship
City Artists Grant, Mayor’s Office of Arts and Cultural affairs
Arts Special Projects Award, 4Culture
2005 Rome Prize, 11 Month Fellowship, American Academy in Rome
Arts Special Projects Award, 4Culture
Public Arts Network Year in Review Selection
2004 Grant for Artists Projects, Artist’s Trust
1996 Full Tuition and Stipend Fellowship, Princeton University
Ausgewählte Einzelausstellungen
2011 Stability, SCOPE Special Project, Basel, Switzerland
2010 This Apple Tastes Like Our Living Room Used To Smell, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA
2009 Architectural Performances in Geologic Time, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
Evaporative Buildings, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
Ours, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Its Form Will Follow Your Performance, Magnus Muller Gallery, Berlin, Deutschland
Stability, Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA
2008 Roiling Infill, The Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse, NY, USA
2007 Snowbound, Tacoma Art Museum, WA, USA
A Sac of Rooms Three Times a Day, Suyama Space, Seattle, WA, USA
2006 Folded Murmur, Howard House, Seattle, WA, USA
Sick Building Sequence, Howard House, Seattle, WA, USA
2005 Love Sick Room, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, NY, USA
Still Life of Beefsteak and Cheese, Parsons School of Design, NewYork, NY, USA
Split, Tollbooth Gallery, Tacoma, WA, USA
2004 Lovesick Buildings, Howard House, Seattle, WA, USA
2001 Abjectecture, Esther Claypool Gallery, 617 Western Avenue, Seattle, WA, USA
Ausgewählte Gruppenausstellungen
2011 The More Things Change, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Temporary Architecture, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
2010 Home Base V, Berlin, Deutschland
Evaporative Building, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand rapids, MI
2009 Sensate, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Murmurs, Cranbrook Museum, Detroit, MI
Concise History of Northwest Art, Tacoma Art Museum, WA
2008 Homebase III, Harlem, New York City, NY, USA
246 and Counting, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA, USA
Traces and Accumulations, Wright Space, Seattle, WA, USA
2007 Happiness of Objects, Sculpture Center, New York, NY, USA
Unsubstantial Pageant Faded, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA, USA
Dark Matters, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
New Media Survey, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, USA
Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, USA
Sparkle then Fade, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, USA
Neddy Awards, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, USA
2006 Tryingtoland, Museo d’Arte Contemporane di Roma, Rom, Italien
Three Rooms, American Academy in Rome, Rom, Italien
2005 Ergonomicon, Consolidated Works, Casey Kessler Curator, Seattle, WA, USA
2004 Franklin Furnace, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
2003 Passing Water, Art Metropole, Toronto, Kanada
2002 Latent Space, Henry Urbach and Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Holland
Blurred architectureart, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, USA
Vorträge und Lehre
2010 Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, Adjunct Professor
Lecture, Cornell University
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
2009 Lecture, Emily Carr School of Art and Design
Lecture, San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art
Lecture, Cranbrook University
Lecture, Chinati Foundation
2008 Lecture, Harvard University
Lecture, Colgate University, Hartford, NY, USA
Lecture, Portland Art Museum
2007 Adjunct Professor, SCIArc, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Lecture, SCIArc Los Angeles, CA, USA
2006 Lecture Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2005 Lecture, Istituto Nazionale di Architettura, Rome, Italy
Lecture, University of Greenwich, London, England
Lecture, Parsons School Of Design, NYC, NY, USA
Lecture, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, USA
2003 Lecture, Lawrence College, Lawrence, WI, USA
2002 Lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Lecture, Cornell University, Ithica, NY, USA
Lecture, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Kanada
Ausgewählte Veröffentlichungen
2011 Performance Architecture”, in “Urban Interior”, Rochus Hinkel (ed.), Deutschland, Surbuchverlag, 2011
2010 Exhibit Architecture, Log, Cynthia Davidson and Tina DiCarlo (ed.), Herbst 2011
Space, Time, Performance, Creative Cowboy Films, Australia, 2011
2009 “Stalls Between Walls, Segregated Sexed Spaces”, in Ladies and Gents: Gender and Public Toilets, Olga Gershenson and Barbara Penner (eds.), Philadelphia,Temple University Press, 2009
Stability, Yasmeen M. Siddiqui (ed.), exhibition cat., Seattle, Lawrimore Project, 2009
2007 A Sac of Rooms Three Times A Day, Urbach, Henry (ed.), exh. cat., Seattle, Suyama Space,
2006 Transmaterial, Brownell, Blaine (ed.), New York, Princeton Architectural Press
2002 Alex Schweder’s Peeple, Behavior Press, New York
Shanghai Reflections, by Mario Gandelsonas, Princeton Press, New York
Ausgewählte Beiträge
2010 Space, Time, Performance, inTROUBLE Magazine, Australia, März
Stability, by Javier Arbona, Frame Magazine, The Netherlands, January- February
2009 Sensate, by Tania Ketenjian, Icon Magazine, November
Artology, Science and Art Collide, by Michael H. Hodges,
The Detroit News, 18 November
Sensate: Bodies and Design, by Pilar Vilares, New York Times, 10 August
Ours, by Traci Vogel, San Francisco Weekly, 19 August
Interview with Jens Hinrichsen, Monopol Magazine, Berlin, Juli
Mental Architecture, by Deike Diening, Tagesspiegel, 28 Juni
Living on a See - Saw Has Its Ups and Downs, by Robert Siegel,
National Public Radio, 27 März
2008 Introducing: Alex Schweder, by Jeff Byles, Modern Painters, Juli
Alex Schweder Amplifies Things That May Otherwise Be Overlooked, by Katherine Rushworth, Syracuse Post-Standard, 30 November
2007 Artforum Pick, The Happiness of Objects, by Lori Cole, Artforum, Mai
Proof That Objects Are People too (Well, Almost), by Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 18 Mai
Alex Schweder at Suyama Space, by Frances DeVuono, Artweek, März
Organ Donor, by Jen Graves,The Stranger, 28 März
Body Doubles, by Nate Lippens, Filip Review Issue 5, Frühling
Schweder’s Inflatable House Exposes the Vulnerability of Sanctuary, by Regina Hackett, Seattle-PI, 2 Februar
2006 The Birds Arrive at Howard House in an Amazing Collaboration of Three Artists, by Nate Lippens, Seattle-PI, 3 November
Gods of Rome, Form Howard House to Bird House, by Jen Graves, The Stranger, 2 November
Terrific Storms, by Sue Peters, Seattle Weekly, 25 Oktober
Once More With Feathers, by Peter Gaucys, The Stranger, 31 August
2005 Relief at Last, by Joanna Merwood, Arcade Journal, Frühling
Conflicted Bodies, by Nate Lippens, The Stranger, 24 März
Lively 'Ergonomicon' plumbs environments awash in fantasy, by Regina Hackett, Seattle-PI, 25 Februar
2004 Architecture and collage fill the senses at Howard House, by Regina Hackett, Seattle-PI, 3 Dezember
Gut Symmetries, Alex Schweder Builds a Body, by Nate Lippens, The Stranger, Dezember 2
2003 A Bodily Function, Writ Large, by Michael Dault, The Canadian Globe and Mail, 23 August
Urine Deep, by Thomas Hirschmann, NOW Toronto, 17 Jui
Artist Makes Bold Body of Works Relating to Bodily Functions, by Jen Graves, The Tacoma Tribune, 16 März
Don’t Kill Yourself, by Emily Hall, The Stranger, 20 März
2002 Interior Motives, by Ann Landi, ARTnews, Januar
Latent space, Rotterdam’s Dagblad , 20 Juli
Architects Become Sleuths of Space, by Sheri Olson, The Seattle PI, 23 August
Art and Design, Bringing Fresh Ideas to the Table, by Blake Gopnik,
The Washington Post, 21 April
The Armory Show, With Wit in Store, by Blake Gopnik, The Washington Post, 3 März
Seattle's CoCA exhibit signals vibrancy, by Randy Gragg, The Oregonian, 11 August
2001 Useful Objects, or are they?, by Emily Hall, The Stranger, 21 Oktober
Pee and Sympathy, by Anna Fahey, Seattle Weekly, 4 Oktober