Alex Da Corte

Alex Da Corte (born 1980) is an American conceptual artist who works across a range of different media, including painting, sculpture, installation, performance, and video. His work explores the nuances of contemporary experience by layering inspirations from varied sources, drawing equally from popular culture and art history.

Da Corte was included in the 2022 Whitney Biennial in New York, the 2019 Venice Biennale, and the 2018 Carnegie International in Pittsburgh. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Secession, Vienna; and MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts.

Early life and education Da Corte was born in Camden, New Jersey, in 1980, and lives and works in Philadelphia. He spent his formative years growing up in Venezuela. In 2001, he studied Film/Animation and Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and then went on to receive his BFA in Printmaking/Fine Arts, from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 2004. He graduated from Yale University with an MFA in 2010.

Exhibitions Select solo exhibitions The Death of All Things Beautiful, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 2005 Activity #91, Golden Age, Chicago, 2009 The Kind of Dog that Keeps You Waiting, Yale Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 2010 I O O O I S L A N D, Joe Sheftel, New York, 2013 Fun Sponge, ICA at MECA, Portland, 2013 White Rain, White Cube, London, 2014 Easternsports, with Jayson Musson, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 2014 Devil Town, Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy, 2015 A Season in He'll, Art + Practice, Los Angeles, 2016 Free Roses, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts, 2016 50 Wigs, HEART - Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark, 2016 Slow Graffiti, Secession, Vienna, 2017 C-A-T Spells Murder, Karma, New York, 2018 THƎ SUPƎ RMAN, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 2018 Marigolds, Karma, New York, 2019 Helter Shelter or The Red Show! or..., Sadie Coles HQ, London, 2020 Rubber Pencil Devil, Prada Rong Zhai, Shanghai, 2020 The Roof Garden Commission: Alex Da Corte, “As Long as the Sun Lasts”, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2021 Mr. Remember, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2022 The Street, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 2023 Fresh Hell, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2023 THE DÆMON, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, 2023 World Leader Pretend, Gió Marconi, Milan, 2024 Alex Da Corte: The Whale, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, 2025

Select group exhibitions Between Spaces, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, 2009 La Biennale de Lyon, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France, 2015 Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2016 Carnegie International, 57th Edition, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 2018 May You Live in Interesting Times, 58th Venice Biennale, Central Pavilion and the Arsenale, Venice THE DREAMERS, 58th October Salon, Belgrade Biennale, Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Belgrade, 2021 Quiet as It's Kept, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2022

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