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Education

American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy.
Fellow of Architecture – 2006

Princeton University, School of Architecture, Princeton, New Jersey.
Master of Architecture – 1998

Pratt Institute, School of Architecture, Brooklyn, New York.
Bachelor of Architecture – 1993


Solo Exhibitions

A Sac of Rooms All Day Long, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA, scheduled 2009

Snowbound, Tacoma Art Museum, WA, 2007

A Sac of Rooms Three Times a Day, Suyama Space, Seattle, WA 2007.

Folded Murmur, Howard House, Seattle, WA 2006.

Sick Building Sequence, Howard House, Seattle, WA 2006.

Love Sick Room, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, NY, 2005.

Still Life of Beefsteak and Cheese, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, 2005.

Split, Tollbooth Gallery, Tacoma, WA, 2005.

Lovesick Buildings, Howard House, Seattle, WA, 2004.

Abjectecture, Esther Claypool Gallery, 617 Western Avenue, Seattle, WA, 2001.


Group Exhibitions

Traces and Accumulations,Wright Space, Seattle, WA, 2008

Happiness of Objects, Sculpture Center, New York, NY, 2007

Insubstantial Pageant Faded, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA, 2007

Dark Matters, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2007

New Media Survey, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 2007

Happiness of Objects, Sculpture Center, New York, NY, 2007

Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, 2007.

Sparkle and Fade, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, 2007.

Neddy Awards, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, 2007.

Tryingtoland, Museo d’Arte Contemporane di Roma, Rome, Italy, 2006.

Spazia Sette, Romainian Academy, Rime, Italy, 2006.

ROOM SPIT LEAK RAIN, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, 2006.

Ergonomicon, Consolidated Works, Casey Kessler Curator, Seattle, WA, 2005.

Juicy Point B, Video Set Design, On The Boards, Maureen Whiting Company, Seattle, WA, 2005.

Franklin Furnace, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 2004.

Passing Water, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada, 2003.

Young Seattle Artists, Howard House, Seattle, WA, 2003.

Latent Space, Henry Urbach and Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Holland, 2002.

Blurred architectureart, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, 2002.

Peeple, Esther Claypool Gallery, 617 Western Avenue, Seattle, WA, 2002.

Documenta, Northwest Contemporary Art Biennial, A.N. Bush Gallery, Salem Art Association, Salem, OR, 2002.

Valentines, Esther Claypool Gallery, 617 Western Avenue, Seattle, WA, 2000.


Public Commissions

Lovelorn Walls, Tacoma Trade and Convention Center, Tacoma, WA, 2004.

Liquids Ghosts, Formica installation, Museum of Sex, New York, NY, 2002.


Public Collections

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

Tacoma Art Museum, Washington

City of Tacoma, Washington

Museum of Sex, New York

Kohler Company


Lectures

Transgressive Architecture, Harvard University, 2008

Edifice Events, Colgate University, Hartford, NY, 2008

Material Practice, Portland Art Museum, 2008

Scored Space: How to Perform Your Own Building, Guest Lecturer, Southern CaliforniaInstitute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, Fall 2007

Edifice Events, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, 2007.

Edifice Events, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, 2006.

Lovesick Buildings, Istituto Nazionale di Architettura, Rome, Italy, 2005.

Lovesick Buildings, University of Greenwich, London, England 2005.

Lovesick Buildings, Parsons School Of Design, 2005.

Lovelorn Walls, Tacoma Art Museum, 2005.

Recent Works, Lawrence College, 2003.

Abjectecture, Princeton University, September 2002.

Abjectecture, Cornell University, September 2002.

Abjectecture, University of British Columbia, November 2001.


Selected Reviews & Articles

Artforum Pick, The Happiness of Objects, By Lori Cole, Artforum, May 2007.

Proof That Objects Are People too (Well, Almost),by Martha Schwendener, New York Times, May 18, 2007.

Alex Schweder at Suyama Space, by Frances DeVuono, Artweek, March 2007

Organ Donor, by Jen Graves,The Stranger, March 28, 2007.

Body Doubles, by Nate Lippens, Filip Review Issue 5, Spring 2007

Schweder’s Inflatable House Exposes the Vulnerability of Sanctuary, by Regina Hackett, Seattle-PI, February 2, 2007.

The Birds Arrive at Howard House in an Amazing Collaboration of Three Artists, by Nate Lippens, Seattle-PI, November 3, 2006.

Gods of Rome, Form Howard House to Bird House, by Jen Graves, The Stranger, November 2, 2006.

Terrific Storms, by Sue Peters, Seattle Weekly, October 25, 2006.

Once More With Feathers, by Peter Gaucys, The Stranger, August 31, 2006.

Relief at Last, by Joanna Merwood, Arcade Journal, Spring 2005.

Conflicted Bodies, by Nate Lippens, The Stranger, March 24, 2005.

Lively 'Ergonomicon' plumbs environments awash in fantasy, by Regina Hackett,Seattle-PI, February 25, 2005.

Architecture and collage fill the senses at Howard House, by Regina Hackett, Seattle-PIDecember 3, 2004.

Visual Arts Pick, by Anderw Engelston, Seattle Weekly November 17, 2004.

A Bodily Function, Writ Large, by Michael Dault, The Canadian Globe and Mail 23 August 2003.

Number one Art, by R. M. Vaughan, xtra!, 10 July 2003.

Urine Deep, by Thomas Hirschmann, NOW Toronto, 17 July 2003.

Artist Makes Bold Body of Works Relating to Bodily Functions, by Jen Graves, The Tacoma

Tribune, 16 March 2003

Don’t Kill Yourself, by Emily Hall, The Stranger, 20 March,2003.

Interior Motives, by Ann Landi, ARTnews, January 2002.

Latent space, Rotterdam’s Dagblad , 20 July 2002.

Architects Become Sleuths of Space, by Sheri Olson, The Seattle PI, 23 August 2002.

Art and Design, Bringing Fresh Ideas to the Table, by Blake Gopnik, The Washington Post, 21 April 2002.

>The Armory Show, With Wit in Store, by Blake Gopnik, The Washington Post, 3 March 2002.

Seattle's CoCA exhibit signals vibrancy, by Randy Gragg, The Oregonian, 11 August 2002.

Useful Objects, or are they?, by Emily Hall, The Stranger, 21 October 2001.

Pee and Sympathy, by Anna Fahey, Seattle Weekly, 4 October 2001.


Publications

Ladies and Gents, The Gendered Construction of Public Toilets, edited by Barbara Penner and Olga Gersheshon, Routledge Press, Publication Pending

One Shot 2006, Visual Codec, 2007

>Transmaterial, by Blaine Brownell, Princeton Architectural Press, 2006.

Alex Schweder’s Peeple, Behavior Press, New York, 2002.

Blurred, Center On Contemporary Art, Catalog, Seattle, 2002.

Shanghai Reflections, by Mario Gandelsonas, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2002.

X-Urbanism Architecture and the American City, by Mario Gandelsonas, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 1998.

Houses Without Rules, The Houses of Marcel Breuer and Herbert Beckhard, by David Maschillao, Norton Press, Norton Press, 1993.


Awards

Genius Award, The Stranger, 2007.

Neddy Award Finalist, Behnke Family Foundation, 2007

Rome Prize, 11 Month Fellowship, American Academy in Rome, 2005 – 2006.

Artist Pension Trust, Los Angeles, 2006.

Artist Trust Fellowship, 2006.

City Artists Grant, Mayor’s Office of Arts and Cultural affairs, 2004, 2006.

Arts Special Projects Award, 4Culture, 2005, 2006.

Public Arts Network Year in Review Selection 2005.

Grant for Artists Projects, Artist’s Trust, 2001, 2004.

John Michael Kohler Arts Center, residency, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 2001, 2003.

Merit Award, Book Binders West, 2003.

Arts Project Grant for book publication, Seattle Arts Commission, 2002.

Production of the City, residency, Madrid, Spain, 2000.

APGA Research Travel Grant, Princeton University, 1997.

Full Tuition and Stipend Fellowship, Princeton University, 1996.

Matthew J. DelGatto New York State Award for Design Excellence, 1993.

Skidmore Owings and Merrill Travel Fellowship, Finalist, 1993.