1980 Born in Camden NJ, USA
1998 Camden County College, Blackwood NJ, USA
1999 Barnstone Studios, Copley PA, USA
2001 Film/Animation and Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York NY, USA
2004 BFA, Printmaking/Fine Arts, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia PA, USA
2010

MFA, Yale University, New Haven CT, USA

 

Lives and works in Philadelphia PA, USA

Solo Exhibitions

2023 

The Dæmon, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles LA, USA
Fresh Hell, 21st Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa, Japan
The Street,
Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at University of Arts, Philadelphia PA, USA

2022

ROY G BIV, LUMA Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland

Mr. Remember, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (cat.)

2021

Alex Da Corte: As Long as the Sun Lasts, The Roof Garden Commission, The Met, New York NY, USA

2020

Rubber Pencil Devil, Prada Rong Zhai, Shanghai, China

Helter Shelter or: The Red Show! or…, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England

2019

Marigolds, KARMA, New York NY, USA

2018

THE SUPƎRMAN, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

C-A-T SPELLS MURDER, Karma Gallery, New York NY, USA

2017

BAD LAND, Josh Lilley, London, England

Harvest Moon, New Museum, New York NY, USA

Slow Graffiti, Secession, Vienna, Austria

Blue Moon, Times Square Arts, Times Square, New York NY, USA

2016

A Man Full of Trouble, Maccarone Gallery, New York NY, USA

50 Wigs, HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark

A Season In He’ll, Art + Practice, Los Angeles CA, USA

Free Roses, Mass MoCA Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams MA, USA

2015

Le Miroir Vivant, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Devil Town, Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy

Die Hexe, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York NY, USA

2014

with Darren Bader, Isbrytaren c/o Appartamento, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, Sweden

with Jayson Musson, Easternsports, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Philadelphia PA, USA

2013

1 O O O I S L A N D, Joe Sheftl Gallery, New York NY, USA

Fun Sponge, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA Maine College of Art, Portland ME, USA

BACON BREAST, ARTSPEAK, Vancouver, Canada

CAR WHORE, Wake, Detroit MI, USA

Dead Zone, Nudashank, Baltimore MD, USA

2012

Gentle Pain, Mallorca Landings, Mallorca, Spain

Magic Stick, Still House, New York NY, USA

Candy Rain, Joe Sheftel, New York NY, USA

Night Chat, Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris, France

2011

The Island Beautiful/Mortal Mirror, Bodega/Extra Extra, Philadelphia PA, USA

2010

The Kind of Dog that Keeps You Waiting, Yale Gallery, New Haven CT, USA

2009

Activity #91, Golden Age, Chicago IL, USA

Casual Luxury, La Montagne Gallery, Boston MA, USA

2007  I Think About You All The Time, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada

I Attach Myself to You, Stonefox Art Space, New York NY, USA

2006 Help Yourself to Roses, Space 1026, Philadelphia PA, USA
2005

Welcome Your Sorrows, Black Floor Gallery, Philadelphia PA, USA

The Death of All Things Beautiful, The University of The Arts, Philadelphia PA, USA

Group Exhibitions

2024

SHINE ON, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England
A Little After This, A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa

2023 

Full Burn: Video from the Hammer Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles LA, USA

Incarnations: The Body in the macLYON collection, Musée d’art Contemporain, Lyon, France 

2022

Wild Strawberries, Pace Gallery, 125 New Gallery, New York NY, USA

In the Line of Flight, for Possible Worlds, Deji Art Museum, Nanjing, China

Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA, co-curated by David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards

The Dreamers: An Echoing film screenings: Blue Moon, 2017, Basement Roma, Rome, Italy

REPEATER, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England

2021

Super Fusion-2021 Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art and Tianfu Gallery, Chengdu, China

New Grit: Art & Philly Now, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA, USA

A Question of Taste, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

Home Life, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York NY, USA

Topologies of the Real, CAFA Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Beijing, China

2020

Citizenship: A Practice of Society, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver CO, USA

Come and See: An exercise in Description in the Absence of the Originals, Luxembourg & Dayan, London, England

THE DREAMERS. The 58th October Salon | Belgrade Biennale 2020, Belgrade Biennale 2020, Belgrade, Serbia

For a Dreamer of Houses, DMA Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX, USA

2019

Ancient History of the Distant Future, PAFA Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia PA, USA

Garland¸ Treignac Projet, Treignac, France My Head is a Haunted House, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England Dracula’s Wedding, Rodeo, London, England

May You Live in Interesting Times, 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

Malmö Sessions, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, Sweden

2018

Double Takes: Historic and Contemporary Film + Video, moCa Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland OH, USA

Carnegie International 57th Edition, CMOA Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA, USA

Warhol 1968, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

This Is Not a Prop, David Zwirner, New York NY, USA

Collections, MAC Musée d'art contemporain Lyon, Lyon, France

Soft Focus, Reyes Projects, Birmingham MI, USA

2017

Cells, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York NY, USA

Summer Show, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, Sweden

Dreamlands: Immersive Film and Cinema Since 1905, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA

2016

Wild Style: Exhibition of Figurative Art, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany

Pièces-Meublés, Patrick Seguin, Paris, France

Fire Under Snow, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark

The 5th of July, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta GA, USA

Illumination, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark

For Pete’s Sake, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, Sweden

2015

Bonsai #5, Maccarone, New York NY, USA

Taut Eye Tau, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon

2014

Slip, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York NY, USA

Border Food, Loyal, New York NY, USA

The New Beauty of Our Modern Life, Higher Pictures, New York NY, USA

Cardboard Lover, American Contemporary, New York NY, USA

2013

Body Without Organs With Sean Fitzgerald, Fjord, Philadelphia PA, USA

As Is Wet Hoagie, Oko Gallery, New York NY, USA

2012

Painting Without Paint, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

New Skin For The Old Ceremony, MMFA Musée des Beaux-Arts Montreal, Montreal, Canada

Specifically Yours, Joe Sheftel Gallery, New York NY, USA

First Among Equals, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia PA, USA

2011

BLEACH, Jolie Laide Gallery, Philadelphia PA, USA

Re: Empire, TEAM Gallery, New York NY, USA

Spirit of the Signal, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York NY, USA

The Unlimited Plan (with Kate Levant), Cleopatra's, Brooklyn NY, USA

That’s How We Escaped: Reflections on Warhol, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia PA, USA

New Skin for the Old Ceremony, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA

ICA Open Video Call Exhibition, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia PA, USA

SubStainability, Texas State University Gallery, San Marcos TX, USA

2010

Cellar Door: Front Room Series, CAM Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis MO, USA

Christmas in July, Yvon Lambert, New York NY, USA

2009

Rich Text, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia PA, USA

Between Spaces, PS1 MoMA, New York NY, USA

2008

I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl, Asia Song Society, New York NY, USA

Love Explosion, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia PA, USA

2000 Years of Sculpture, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia PA, USA

L'Autre, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia PA, USA

This Is This, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia PA, USA

2006 Faux Naturel, The Warehouse Gallery, Syacuse NY, USA
2005

Nexus Selects, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia PA, USA

Turning Pages, Whittier College, Whittier CA, USA

2003

Red, Gallery One, University of The Arts, Philadelphia PA, USA

Curatorial Projects

2015 The Living Mirror, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Residencies

                     

Fabric Workshop & Museum Apprenticeship, Philadelphia PA, USA

University of The Arts Residency Program, Philadelphia PA, USA

Smith College Artist in Residence Program, Northampton MA, USA

Performances

2020 Chicken, Levitt Auditorium, Gershman Hall, University of the Arts, Philadelphia PA, USA, 05 March

Video interviews

                                

Interactions of Color: Alex Da Corte and David Breslin in Conversation | Live from the Whitney, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA, 01 July 2019

Copyright Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 2019

 

 

Jørgen Leth & Alex Da Corte Interview: The Perfect Monster, interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg, Louisiana Channel, August 2017

Copyright Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2018

 
                            

Alex Da Corte and Ed Atkins in Conversation, interviewed by Christian Lund, Louisiana Channel, May 2016

Copyright Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2015

 

 

 

Alex Da Corte Interview: Dancing Around Delusion, interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg, Louisiana Channel, October 2014

 

Copyright Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2015

 

Collections

 

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark

Aïshti Foundation, Jal El Dib, Lebanon

Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark

Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles CA, USA [closed]

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

MAC Musée d'art contemporain Lyon, Lyon, France

TPG/P&A, Philadelphia PA, USA

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

West Collection, Philadelphia PA, USA

Awards

2012 Pew Fellowship in the Arts Ted Carey Award
2006

Eisman Travel Scholarship