Alex Branch | Denver, CO
EDUCATION
MFA SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
BFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
EDGE Professional Development Program, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS
2023 Ground Cover. Understudy. Denver, CO
2021 Tributary. BRDG Project. Denver, CO
2019 Tooth and Barrel. Flood Plain. St. Louis, MO
2018 Calibration. PlatteForum, Denver, CO
2017 Fathoms and Measures. Sanitary Tortilla Factory Gallery. Albuquerque, NM
2016 Signal House. A site specific architectural musical structure built next to a recycling center to house community art events, lectures, exhibitions and performances. Made possible by a grant from the Cultural Council of Palm Beach.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS/COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCES
2023
Tender Machines. Union Hall. Denver, CO
Bread Show. Bell Project. Denver, CO.
Power Tools. Parker Art Center: Pace Gallery. Parker, CO.
Preface. BRDG Project. Denver, CO.
2022
AURA. Union Hall. Denver, CO
True West. BRDG Project. Denver, CO
Timestream. Collaborative Project with Playground Ensemble performed at King Center Auditorium. Denver, CO
2021
Migration Connects Us All. NYFA and Platteforum commencement show for the Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program. BRDG Project. Denver, CO
2017
Dead Horse Bay The Glass Graveyard of Brooklyn. Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Lilac Art Series, Lilac Steamship Preservation Project, Pier 25 Hudson River, NY
The End, Winter Shack, Classon-Fulgate Garden, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Bad Luck. Figment Festival, Governor’s Island, NY
Fold Out/Fold In, Winter Shack, Brooklyn, NY 2013
Extremely Short Film Festival, Aurora Picture Show: Houston, TX,
Juror, Emily Doe, Sundance Film Festival
2012
8 Degrees. Lu Magnus Gallery, New York, NY Between The Walls. Crawl Space, Silver Lake, NY
2011
Make The Road By Walking, Curated by Stamatina Gregory, Passage Gallery, Purchase, NY
And I have A Bridge To Sell You, Passage Gallery, Purchase, NY
College Art Association Exhibition, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Trial and Error, Richard and Dolly Maas Gallery, Purchase, NY
Title. SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
RESIDENCIES
2020 Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts. Omaha, NE
2019 PaulArtspace. St. Louis, MO
2018 PlatteForum. Denver, CO
2018 Works on Water and Underwater New York, Artists Working with the subject of water. Governor's Island, NY
2017 Sanitary Tortilla Factory. Juror: Lucy Lippard. Albuquerque, NM
2016 Visiting Artist. Resource Depot Reuse Center, West Palm Beach, FL
2015 Apexart International Research Fellowship, Athens, Greece
2009 Virginia Commonwealth University Summer Studio Program, Richmond, VA 2007 Blue Mountain Center Artist Residency, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
AWARDS and GRANTS
2022 CoCoCo Collaboration Stipend
2019 Foundation For Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, New York, NY
2011-12 Art and Design Scholarship, State University of New York, Purchase
2011-12 In Praise of Merit Scholarship, State University of New York, Purchase
2011-12 Windgate Scholarship, State University of New York, Purchase
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
2018 Parsons, The New School, Guest Lecturer
2017 University of New Mexico, Guest Lecturer
2017 Sanitary Tortilla Factory Gallery, Visiting Artist Lecture
2016 “Signal House,” Visiting Artist Lecture. Cultural Council of Palm Beach. West Palm,
Florida
2016-2017 Cue Foundation. Art Handling Lecture Series
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2016
Winter Shack Season Three, co-curated with Nicole Antebi in partnership with Brooklyn Queens Land Trust and Classon-Fulgate Community Garden.
Season specific readings/art installations/performance/lecture series taking place in a shack I originally built in my backyard out of repurposed materials
2015
Winter Shack Season Two, co-curated with Nicole Antebi, in partnership with Brooklyn Queens Landtrust and Classon-Fulgate Garden
2014
Bad Luck. Figment Festival, Governor’s Island, NY, co-curated with Nicole Antebi.
For this event we curated a series of lectures/demonstrations/readings/performances that took place under a structure we constructed from broken umbrellas collected from the streets of New York.
Winter Shack Season One. Bed-Stuy Brooklyn, co-curated with Nicole Antebi
Season specific readings/art installations/performances/lecture series
2012
Between The Walls, Crawl Space, Silver Lake, NY (After the opening the exhibiting was permanently sealed inside the walls)
PUBLICATIONS
"Ground Cover, A Kinetic Installation by Alex Branch, On View At Understudy Art Space." Denver Post. April 19, 2023. Amy Norton. https://yourhub.denverpost.com/blog/2023/04/ground-cover-kinetic-installation-alex-branch-understudy-space/304216/
"Colorado Studio Visit: Work In Progress With Alex Branch." Southwest Contemporary Magazine Website. June 26, 2023. Written by Gina Pugliese. https://southwestcontemporary.com/alex-branch-studio-visit/
"Rooted: Poetics of Place", Southwest Contemporary Magazine. Volume 6, August 26, 2022
https://southwestcontemporary.com/alex-branch/
"One Question One Answer", Romanov Grave with Nancy Davidson , February 23, 2022
https://www.romanovgrave.com/one-question-one-answer/alex-branch
"Six Things For Art Lovers To See and Do in Denver." Alex Branch "Calibration." Westword, December 12, 2018. Susan Froyd. Denver, CO. https://www.westword.com/arts/gallery-openings-and-things-to-do-for-art-lovers-in-denver-december-12-to-16-2018-11057124
“Ships Not At Sea, The Work of NYC Based Artist Alex Branch at Sanitary Tortilla Factory”, Alibi Journal V 26 No. 36 Sept 7-13, 2017. Maggie Grimason, Albuquerque, NM
http://alibi.com/art/54063/Ships-Not-at-Sea.html
Untapped Cities. Arts and Culture, New York, News. Shervin Abdolhamidi. 3/17/2017.
http://untappedcities.com/2017/03/17/remnants-of-old-nyc-landfill-explored-in-dead-horse-bay-the-glass-graveyard-of-brooklyn/
“Art Project Brings Musical Element To Community”. ABC News. Channel 25 WPBF.
April 13, 2016.
http://www.wpbf.com/article/art-project-brings-musical-element-to-community/1405642
Apexart Research Fellowship Journal
Athens, Greece. May 31-June 29, 2015
http://apexart.org/fellowship/branch.php
"Every Creeping Thing That Creepeth".
The New York Times, The Opinion Pages,
Alison Kinney, June 22, 2015
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/22/every-creeping-thing-that-creepeth/?_r=2
"Man is the Pasture of Being 3: Mandeville in Tibet, at long last", In the Middle
Karl Steel, August 7, 2015
http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2015/08/man-is-pasture-of-being-3-mandeville-in.html
"Parting Images from Wayward Girl Productions"
Seattle Times, Entertainment Section
by Gayle Clemans Nov 7, 2008
http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/parting-images-from-wayward-girls-productions/