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

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or mass art, sometimes contraste ...

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. Da Corte was included in the 2022 Whitney Biennial in New York, the 2019 Venice Biennale, and the 2018

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in Pittsburgh. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan;

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, Humlebæk, Denmark;

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, New York;

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, Cologne;

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, Vienna; and

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, North Adams, Massachusetts.

Early life and education

Da Corte was born in

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, in 1980, and lives and works in

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. He spent his formative years growing up in

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. In 2001, he studied Film/Animation and Fine Arts at the

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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

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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 The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) is a museum in a converted Arnold Print Works factory building complex located in North Adams, Massachusetts. It is one of the largest centers for contemporary visual art and performing ...

, North Adams, Massachusetts, 2016 * ''50 Wigs'', HEART - Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark, 2016 * ''Slow Graffiti'',

, Vienna, 2017 * ''C-A-T Spells Murder'', Karma, New York, 2018 * ''THƎ SUPƎ RMAN'',

, Cologne, 2018 * ''Marigolds'', Karma, New York, 2019 * ''Helter Shelter or The Red Show! or...'',

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, London, 2020 *''Rubber Pencil Devil'', Prada Rong Zhai, Shanghai, 2020 *''The Roof Garden Commission: Alex Da Corte,'' “'' As Long as the Sun Lasts”,''

, New York, 2021 *''Mr. Remember'',

, 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 Matthew Marks is an art gallery located in the New York City neighborhood of Chelsea, Manhattan, Chelsea and the Los Angeles neighborhood of West Hollywood. Founded in 1991 by Matthew Marks, it specializes in Modern art, modern and contemporary a ...

, Los Angeles, 2023 *''World Leader Pretend'', Gió Marconi, Milan, 2024

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 The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is a Modern art, modern and Contemporary art, contemporary American art museum located in the Meatpacking District, Manhattan, Meatpacking District and West Village neighbor ...

, New York, 2016 *

, 57th Edition,

Carnegie Museum of Art The Carnegie Museum of Art is an art museum in the Oakland (Pittsburgh), Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The museum was originally known as the Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute and was formerly located ...

, Pittsburgh, 2018 * '' May You Live in Interesting Times'', 58th

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale ( ; ) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy. There are two main components of the festival, known as the Art Biennale () and the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Architecture 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 The Whitney Biennial is a biennial exhibition of contemporary American art organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1932; the first biennial was held in 1973. It is considered ...

, New York, 2022

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