EDUCATION
2006 Fellow of Architecture, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
1998 Master of Architecture, Princeton University, School of Architecture, Princeton, New Jersey
1993 Bachelor of Architecture, Pratt Institute, School of Architecture, Brooklyn, New York
AWARDS
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.
2007 Genius Award, The Stranger
Neddy Award Finalist, Behnke Family Foundation
2005-2006 Rome Prize, 11 Month Fellowship, American Academy in Rome
2006 Artist Pension Trust, Los Angeles
Artist Trust Fellowship
2004, 2006, 2008 City Artists Grant, Mayor’s Office of Arts and Cultural affairs
2005, 2006, 2008 Arts Special Projects Award, 4Culture
2005 Public Arts Network Year in Review Selection
2001, 2004 Grant for Artists Projects, Artist’s Trust
2001, 2003, 2008 John Michael Kohler Arts Center, residency, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2003 Merit Award, Book Binders West
2002 Arts Project Grant for book publication, Seattle Arts Commission
2000 Production of the City, residency, Madrid, Spain
1997 APGA Research Travel Grant, Princeton University
1996 Full Tuition and Stipend Fellowship, Princeton University
1993 Matthew J. DelGatto New York State Award for Design Excellence
1993 Skidmore Owings and Merrill Travel Fellowship, Finalist
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 TBA, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY(scheduled)
2009 A Sac of Rooms All Day Long, San Francisco Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
Stability, Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA
Its Form Follows Your Performance, Magnus Muller Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Ours, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Architectural Performances in Geologic Time, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
Evaporative Buildings, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
2008 Roiling Infill, The Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse, NY
2007 A Sac of Rooms Three Times a Day, Suyama Space, Seattle, WA
Snowbound, Tacoma Art Museum, WA, 2007
2006 Folded Murmur, Howard House, Seattle, WA
Sick Building Sequence, Howard House, Seattle, WA
2005 Love Sick Room, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, NY
Still Life of Beefsteak and Cheese, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Split, Tollbooth Gallery, Tacoma, WA
2004 Lovesick Buildings, Howard House, Seattle, WA
2001 Abjectecture, Esther Claypool Gallery, 617 Western Avenue, Seattle, WA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Murmurs, Cranbrook Museum, Detroit, MI
Concise History of Northwest Art, Tacoma Art Museum, WA
2008 Homebase III, Harlem, New York City, NY
246 and Counting, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Traces and Accumulations, Wright Space, Seattle, WA
2007 Happiness of Objects, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
Insubstantial Pageant Faded, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA
Dark Matters, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
New Media Survey, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Happiness of Objects, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Sparkle then Fade, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Neddy Awards, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2006 Tryingtoland, Museo d’Arte Contemporane di Roma, Rome, Italy
Spazia Sette, Romainian Academy, Rime, Italy
ROOM SPIT LEAK RAIN, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2005 Ergonomicon, Consolidated Works, Casey Kessler Curator, Seattle, WA
Juicy Point B, Video Set Design, On The Boards, Maureen Whiting Company, Seattle, WA
2004 Franklin Furnace, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2003 Passing Water, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
Young Seattle Artists, Howard House, Seattle, WA
2002 Latent Space, Henry Urbach and Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Holland
Blurred architectureart, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Peeple, Esther Claypool Gallery, 617 Western Avenue, Seattle, WA
Documenta, Northwest Contemporary Art Biennial, A.N. Bush Gallery, Salem Art Association, Salem, OR
2000 Valentines, Esther Claypool Gallery, 617 Western Avenue, Seattle, WA
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
Lovelorn Walls, Tacoma Trade and Convention Center, Tacoma, WA, 2004.
Liquids Ghosts, Formica installation, Museum of Sex, New York, NY, 2002.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Tacoma Art Museum, Washington
City of Tacoma, Washington
Museum of Sex, New York
Kohler Company
SELECTED REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
Introducing: Alex Schweder, by Jeff Byles, Modern Painters, July 2008.
Artforum Pick, The Happiness of Objects, By Lori Cole, Artforum, May 2007.
Proof That Objects Are People too (Well, Almost),by Martha Schwendener, New York Times, May 18, 2007.
Alex Schweder at Suyama Space, by Frances DeVuono, Artweek, March 2007
Organ Donor, by Jen Graves,The Stranger, March 28, 2007.
Body Doubles, by Nate Lippens, Filip Review Issue 5, Spring 2007
Schweder’s Inflatable House Exposes the Vulnerability of Sanctuary, by Regina Hackett, Seattle-PI,
February 2, 2007.
The Birds Arrive at Howard House in an Amazing Collaboration of Three Artists, by Nate Lippens,
Seattle-PI, November 3, 2006.
Gods of Rome, From Howard House to Bird House, by Jen Graves, The Stranger, November 2, 2006.
Terrific Storms, by Sue Peters, Seattle Weekly, October 25, 2006.
Once More With Feathers, by Peter Gaucys, The Stranger, August 31, 2006.
Relief at Last, by Joanna Merwood, Arcade Journal, Spring 2005.
Conflicted Bodies, by Nate Lippens, The Stranger, March 24, 2005.
Lively 'Ergonomicon' plumbs environments awash in fantasy, by Regina Hackett,Seattle-PI,
February 25, 2005.
Architecture and collage fill the senses at Howard House, by Regina Hackett, Seattle-PIDecember 3, 2004.
Visual Arts Pick, by Anderw Engelston, Seattle Weekly November 17, 2004.
A Bodily Function, Writ Large, by Michael Dault, The Canadian Globe and Mail 23 August 2003.
Number one Art, by R. M. Vaughan, xtra!, 10 July 2003.
Urine Deep, by Thomas Hirschmann, NOW Toronto, 17 July 2003.
Artist Makes Bold Body of Works Relating to Bodily Functions, by Jen Graves, The Tacoma
Tribune, 16 March 2003
Don’t Kill Yourself, by Emily Hall, The Stranger, 20 March,2003.
Interior Motives, by Ann Landi, ARTnews, January 2002.
Latent space, Rotterdam’s Dagblad , 20 July 2002.
Architects Become Sleuths of Space, by Sheri Olson, The Seattle PI, 23 August 2002.
Art and Design, Bringing Fresh Ideas to the Table, by Blake Gopnik, The Washington Post, 21 April 2002.
>The Armory Show, With Wit in Store, by Blake Gopnik, The Washington Post, 3 March 2002.
Seattle's CoCA exhibit signals vibrancy, by Randy Gragg, The Oregonian, 11 August 2002.
Useful Objects, or are they?, by Emily Hall, The Stranger, 21 October 2001.
Pee and Sympathy, by Anna Fahey, Seattle Weekly, 4 October 2001.
PUBLICATIONS
Ladies and Gents, The Gendered Construction of Public Toilets, edited by Barbara Penner and Olga
Gersheshon, Routledge Press, Publication Pending
One Shot 2006, Visual Codec, 2007
>Transmaterial, by Blaine Brownell, Princeton Architectural Press, 2006.
Alex Schweder’s Peeple, Behavior Press, New York, 2002.
Blurred, Center On Contemporary Art, Catalog, Seattle, 2002.
Shanghai Reflections, by Mario Gandelsonas, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2002.
X-Urbanism Architecture and the American City, by Mario Gandelsonas, Princeton Architectural
Press, New York, 1998.
Houses Without Rules, The Houses of Marcel Breuer and Herbert Beckhard, by David Maschillao,
Norton Press, Norton Press, 1993. |
