Alex Schweder

For Alex Schweder, architecture both gives cues for how we are to behave and offers itself as a prop for us to form and perform our identities. His term “performance architecture,” and related artistic practice, conceptualizes such an understanding of architecture.

Schweder’s work has been exhibited at Pacific Design Center Gallery (CA), the Venice Architecture Biennale (Italy), Performa 17 (NY), Aldrich Museum (CT), Architecture Omi (NY), Pratt Institute (NY), Chinati Foundation (TX), Jack Hanley Gallery (CA), Museum of Modern Art (NY), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, (CA), DeCordova Museum (MA), and Sculpture Center (NY), among others. He has received the Pollock-Krasner Award, the International Artist Award from ArtPrize, the Genius Award from The Stranger, and an Arts Special Projects Award from 4Culture, among others. He has been an artist-in-residence at Glass House (CN), Chinati Foundation (TX), and Arts/Industry at Kohler Co. (WI), among others. His work has been reviewed in Artforum, The LA Times, Art Papers, TL Magazine, Elemental Living, and In Orbit, among others.

Schweder received a BArch from Pratt Institute, an MArch from Princeton University, and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge.