RESUME

ALEX SCHMIDT     alex@bodyconfidence.org

EDUCATION

2023 Hunter MFA, New Genres, New York, NY

2017 See Hear Here, Mariana Valencia, Movement Research, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY

2016-2019 Upright Citizens Brigade Improv 101, 201, and 301, New York, NY

2015 Third International Summer School, Reggio Emilia, Italy

2012 The Reggio Emilia Approach, Bank Street, New York, NY

2009 BA, Art History, Reed College, Portland, OR

AWARDS + RESIDENCIES

2024-2025 Elaine G. Weitzen ISP Studio Program Fellow, Whitney ISP, New York, NY 

2023 MFA Thesis Support Grant, CUNY, New York, NY

2020-2023 Ruth Stanton Scholar, Hunter MFA, New York, NY

2021 SPCUNY Actionist Grant with support from Mellon Foundation, New York, NY

2016 Solo artist-in-residence, HOY HOY, Mt. Tremper, NY

2016 Group artist-in-residence, HOY HOY, Mt. Tremper, NY

2016 Group artist-in-residence, MANA BSMT, Jersey City, NJ 

2008+2009 Awards for Academic Excellence, Reed College, Portland, OR

2008 Mellon Opportunity Grant, Reed College, Chicago, IL

SELECT ENGAGEMENTS

2024 Adjunct Faculty; Experimental Drawing, Queer Strategies, and Off the Canvas; Purchase Painting and Drawing Department; Purchase, NY

2024 Artist Lecture, Interdisciplinary Arts, Fashion Institute of Technology, NY, NY

2023 Artist Lecture, Transmedia Department, University of Texas, Austin, TX

2023 Visiting Artist, The Chapin School, NY, NY 

2022 Artist Lecture, Drawing + Painting, University of Texas, Austin, TX

2022 Artist Lecture, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

2022 Visiting Artist, Henry Street Settlement, NY, NY

2020-Ongoing Teaching Artist, YAI, NY, NY

2019 Resident Artist, Clay Play with Elders, SU-CASA, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY

2019 Visiting Artist, Art of Improv, Wide Rainbow, NY, NY

2018 Resident Artist, Art of Improv with Elders, SU-CASA, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY

2018 Teaching Artist, Art of Improv, Wide Rainbow, NY, NY

2018 Teaching Artist, Queer Art of Improv, Century 21, NY, NY

2018 Teaching Artist, Queer Art of Improv, Sunview Luncheonette, NY, NY

2017 Teaching Artist, Queer Art of Improv, School of Making Thinking, Abrons Art Center, NY, NY

2017 Teaching Artist, Art of Improv, Marymount School, NY, NY

2014 Teaching Artist, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, Queens, NY

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

2024 NOT YET TITLED, performance, Olympia, New York, NY

2022 Embodiment Session: IV, performance, Duplex NYC, New York, NY

2022 Embodiment Session: III, performance, Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, NY

2021 Embodiment Session: II, performance, Duplex NYC, New York, NY

2021 Embodiment Session: I, performance, Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, NY

2018 GROUP FAIL PONY PLAY, exhibition, Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, NY

2016 Body Confidence, exhibition, Rachel Comey, New York, NY

2014 Drink Water, exhibition, 21st St. Projects for Critical Practices, Inc., New York, NY

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

2024

Shadow Walls, group exhibition, Upstate Art Weekend, Purling, NY

OVERLOAD, performance and group exhibition, New Uncanny, New York, NY

Understudies, performance, PAGEANT, Brooklyn, NY

2023

Performance Rehearsal: Understudies, performance, Leubsdorf Gallery, New York, NY

WILDSWIM, Hunter MFA Thesis Exhibition, 205 Hudson, New York, NY

32 Dumble Dees, performance and Master of Ceremonies for A Lot Fair, Art Lot, Brooklyn, NY

Struggle Hunting: Sleep Study, performance, Flowers Fest, Essex Flowers, New York, NY

Art of Access, benefit exhibition for Brigid Alliance, New Collectors Gallery and Visionary Arts, New York, NY

Summer Break, group exhibition, 13 Monroe St., New York, NY

Unexpect, group exhibition, Hunter MFA, New York, NY

Dykette, audio narration for Jenny Fran Davis, MacMillan Audio, New York, NY

LGBTV, performance with Lily Marotta, Come to Life World, New York, NY

Withheld, group exhibition, Hunter MFA, New York, NY

Swap Meat, group exhibition with Project Art Distribution, NADA, New York, NY

2022

In with the Old: Nearly Six Years of Project Art Distribution, group exhibition, Yeh Art Gallery, Queens, NY

In with the Old: Nearly Six Years of Project Art Distribution, group exhibition, The Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase, NY

DahliAlex Bloomschmidt: He Only Understands the World in Black and White, Hunter MFA, New York, NY

Liber Liber, group exhibition with Project Art Distribution, NADA Art Fair, New York, NY

Second Semester Show, group exhibition, Hunter MFA Gallery, New York, NY 

Speech Psychology, performance with Craig Jun Li, Hunter MFA Gallery, New York, NY

A cup of dirty water stands still: tits puddle out from a bra that no longer fits I’ve been pregnant for 1 year and counting with, two person exhibition with Zachary Delameter, Hunter MFA Gallery 210, New York, NY

2021

The Flog Prince, group exhibition with YAI, SPRING/BREAK, New York, NY

München Monopoly, group exhibition, Christine Mayer Gallery, Munich, Germany

Body Dissolve, group exhibition, Duplex NYC, New York, NY

LIONEXXX, group exhibition, Kingsland Editions, Brooklyn, NY

Pride, online group exhibition, The Real Real, New York, NY

2020

Pademic, group exhibition with Project Art Distribution, Permanent Maintenance, New York, NY

Not Over, virtual exhibition, Visual AIDS, New York, NY 

In with the Old: Nearly Six Years of Project Art Distribution, group exhibition with Project Art 

Distribution, Walter Elwood, Amsterdam, NY 

2019 

Ail Palaces Aretemporary Halaces, performance, Shanzhai Lyric, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY

Best Foot Forward, group exhibition with Project Art Distribution, New York, NY 

Magic Hour, screening, Duplex NYC, New York, NY

2018

International Space Station 2, group exhibition, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY

Head Show, group exhibition, Fredericks & Mae, Brooklyn, NY

Talk Hole Presents: ANUS 2018, performance, Sunday Sessions, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY

Home School Field Day, performance, Diamond Stingily Show, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY

Mad Girls Club, screening of performance, American Medium, New York, NY

2017

Queer Art of Improv for People Pie Pool, performance PERFORMA 17, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY

Talk Hole: Warm Up, performance, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY

Queer Drive: Flash3, performance, Knockdown Center, New York, NY 

The Fool (excerpt), performance, dir. by Colin Self and Raul de Nieves, BOFFO 2017 Benefit, New York, NY

The Fool, performance, dir. by Colin Self and Raul de Nieves, The Kitchen, New York, NY

2016 

Sad Girls Club (IV), performance dir. by Maire O’Neill + Mia Ardito, American Medium, New York, NY

Video Work, screening, curated by Georgia Wall, Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn, NY 

Children of the Playhouse, group exhibition, Shoot the Lobster, Chicago, IL

SELECT PRESS

“The NYC Exhibition Where Work Costs Up to $75,” Louis Bury, Hyperallergic, Nov 16 2022.

“Belonging to P.A.D (Project Art Distribution)”, Sophia Ma, Art Spiel, March 12 2021.

“Zoom with a View: how lockdown art classes are booming online,” Nadja Sayej, The Guardian, May 14 2020.

“Embracing the Chaotic Side of Zoom,” Naomi Fry, New Yorker, April 27 2020.

“Life Drawing is So Much More Than a Hobby,” Kaye Blegvlad, Vogue, May 6 2020.

“This Generation of Comedy is Queer,” Jael Goldfine, Paper Magazine, June 20 2020.

“Biography,” Girls Like Us Issue #12, 2019

“Dyke Soccer is helping people embrace their inner lesbi-jock”, Megan Munro, Dazed Digital, July 6 2019.

“Dyke Soccer,” Caroline Fortuna, Office Magazine, July 22 2019.

“I went on 40 dates in one night and here’s what happened,” Hannah Schneider, Elite Daily, June 13 2019.

“Top Five: Strategist,” New York Magazine, May 14-27, 2018

“Interview: Alexandra Schmidt” in “Talk Hole: Why So Serious?”, Patrik Sandberg, DAZED Magazine, May 2018. 

“Raúl de Nieves & Colin Self Harmonize,” Art 21, Feb. 7 2018.

“Premiering Sad Girls Club TV: Season 4 Episode 1,” Audrey Phillips, agnb, July 26, 2016. 

“What Getting Braces at 28 Taught Me About Life,” Alex Schmidt, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Feb. 5 2016.