ALEX FORMAN

Contact: januaryriver [at] yahoo [dot] com
Residence: Los Angeles | New York
Nationality: Brazilian | American

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS (*solo)
— Posing, curated by Andrea Cote and Joelle Jensen, Henry Street Settlement, NY 2007
— The Matzo Files, Streit's Matzo, NY 2005
— The Editions/Artists' Book Fair:04, NY 2004
— The Matzo Files, Streit's Matzo, NY 2004
— Annual Gala Benefit Auction, BrazilFoundation, Cipriani's, NY 2004
— Tall, Slim & Erect: Portraits of the Presidents, David Krut Projects, NY 2004 *
— Warm Worlds and Otherwise, curated by Debra Jenks, Krasdale Art Gallery, NY 2004
— State of the Art, curated by Amadou Diallo, Seven Ops Gallery, NY 2003
— Annual Gala Benefit Auction, Brazil Foundation, University Club, NY 2003
— I Just Can’t Pretend, curated by Dan Torop, Derek Eller Gallery, NY 2002
— Work, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA 2001 *
— Tossed Salad, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA 2000
— Faculty Show, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA 1999
— New Work, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI 1998
— DUMMY, Limbo Gallery, New York 1997
— MFA Thesis Exhibition, Art and Architecture Gallery, New Haven, CT 1997

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Diallo, Amadou. MASTERING DIGITAL BLACK AND WHITE: A Photographer's Guide to High Quality Black-and-White Imaging and Printing, Thomson Course Technology PTR, April 30, 2007
Kent, Jeff.“Collaborators, PHOTOGRAPHER + PRODUCTION AND PRINTING EXPERT,” Professional Photographer Magazine, 2007.
Miller, Leigh Anne. “Alex Forman at David Krut Projects,” Art in America, by 2/2005
         http://archipelago.org/vol8-4/forman.htm
         http://www.jubilat.org/n9/
LaCroix, Ethan. Around Town, TimeOut NY 11/2004
Soderquist, Hans. What's Going On, AOL CityGuide 11/2004
Lacavaro, Anthony. "Images of Presidential Power," The L Magazine 10/2004
Matthea Harvey.” 20 New American Poets, Crossroads 2003
Fierst, Max. “The Agony of Communication,” Derek Eller Gallery, New York 2002
"Prometei" in the Stalin Catacombs:Festival of Light, LEONARDO, vol.27, No.5 1994
Hejma, Ondrej. “Torn Velvet,” ArtNews, (Totalítní Zoná) 1991
“Underground,” Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, December 10, 1991 (Totalítní Zoná)
‘Totalítní Zoná, The Totalitarian Zone’, exhibition catalogue 1991
Spindler, Amy. “Letter from Prague,” W, December 24, 1990 (Totalítní Zoná)

COLLECTIONS
The International Center on Cooperation
The Village Voice
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Blue Mountain Center

Matthea Harvey & Rob Casper, Brooklyn Michelle Markley & Michael Teig, Easthampton, MA Ben Strader, Blue Mountain, NY Harriet Barlow, Minneapolis Kevin Brine, New York Julian Zugazagoitia, New York Bernard Friedman & Lesley Hyatt, Los Angeles Carolina Gomma Azevedo, Brasilia Joy Katz, Brooklyn Victoria Welling, Brooklyn Carmen Einfinger, Brooklyn Hans Soderquist, New York Ivan Sullivan, Brooklyn Amadou Diallo, Brooklyn

AWARDS, HONORS & RECOGNITIONS
Djerassi Resident Artist Program, CA 2007
Change, Inc. Foundation Grant 2007
Fiscal Sponsorship, Fractured Atlas, NY 2006-present
Ucross Foundation, WY, Artist Residency 2006
Creative Time's Open Door, 2004
Blue Mountain Center, NY, Artist Residency 2004
Blue Mountain Center, NY, Artist Residency 2003
Artist Space Registry 2002
Yale University School of Art, Academic Scholarship 1995-97
Czech Airlines Award 1992
Artist Space Independent Project Grant 1992
Charter 77, Masaryk Fellowship 1991

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
JUBILAT, an international poetry journal
Worldview Cities: Contemporary Perspectives on Architecture and Urbanism from Around the Globe,The Architectural League of New York, NY
Jon Goodman Photogravure, Florence, MA
Opening Spaces Benefit Exhibition, Home for Contemporary Theater & Art, New York
Sylvestri for President Vaclav Havel, Roxy, Prague, Czech Republic
Snemovni 2, Prague, Czech Republic
Totalítní Zoná,Festival svotla, Stalinov monument, Letenske Plani, Prague, Czech Republic (film, by Vaclav Kucera, and cat.)

EDUCATION
Brown University
Yale University School of Art