Education
- 2012–
- University of Cambridge, UK, PhD., Department of Architecture
- 2005–06
- American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, Fellow of Architecture
- 1996–08
- Princeton University, School of Architecture, Princeton, New Jersey, MArch
- 1988–93
- Pratt Institute, School of Architecture, Brooklyn, New York, BArch
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2020
- Selves, Pacific Design Center Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2019
- Slow Teleport, 1+1 Biennial, Casino Luxembourg, Kirchberg, Luxembourg
- SENSEFACTORY, Muffathalle, Munich, Germany
- 2018
- Venice Architecture Biennale, Satellite Project with Alcantara, Venice
- My Turn, The Armory Show, Platforms, curated by Jen Mergel and Presented by Edward Cella, New York
- Davenports Yawn, Collective Design in collaboration with Alcantara, New York
- 2017
- The New Comers, Performa 17, NY
- Your Turn, Aldrich Museum, CT
- 2016
- The Future Series, Bang & Olafson, NY
- Desire Bouncing, Wasserman Projects, Detroit MI
- Reactor, Architecture Omi, NY
- 2015
Desire Bouncing, Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI
- 2014
- Wall To Wall, Floor To Ceiling, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
- In Orbit, Pierogi’s “the Boiler”, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
- 2013
- Stored But Still Performed, Manhattan Mini Storage, NY
- Rehearsal Space, The Glass House, New Canaan, CT
- Anxious Space, OPUS projects, New York, NY
- Performance Architecture, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- Its Form Will Follow Your Performance, OPUS projects, New York, NY
- 2012
- Its Form Will Follow Your Performance, RIBA London Festival of Architecture
- Roomograph, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
- 2011
- Counterweight Roommate, SCOPE Special Project, Basel, Switzerland
- 2010
- This Apple Tastes Like Our Living Room Used To Smell, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA
- 2009
- Architectural Performances in Geologic Time, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
- Evaporative Buildings, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
- Ours, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Its Form Will Follow Your Performance, Magnus Muller Gallery, Berlin, Germany
- Stability, Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA
- 2008
- Roiling Infill, The Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse, NY
- 2007
- Snowbound, Tacoma Art Museum, WA
- A Sac of Rooms Three Times a Day, Suyama Space, Seattle, WA
- 2006
- Folded Murmur, Howard House, Seattle, WA
- Sick Building Sequence, Howard House, Seattle, WA
- 2005
- Love Sick Room, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, NY
- Still Life of Beefsteak and Cheese, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
- 2004
- Lovesick Buildings, Howard House, Seattle, WA, 2004
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2019
- Nine Journies Through Time, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
- 2018
- IKEA Hacked, IKEA Museum, Almhult Sweden
- 2017
- Vernacular Environments, Part 1, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles
- We All Love Art, Schlachthaus, Berlin
- 2016
- Slowly Ceiling, Kranich Museum, Germany
- 2015
- Folded Murmur, Kranich Museum, Germany
- The Endless House, Museum of Modern Art, NY
- Antarctopia, Mutimedia Art Museum, Moscow
- The Smell of War, The Olfactory, Brussels, Belgium
- 2014
- Out of Building Architecture, Antarctic Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy
- …all silent but for the buzzing…, Royal College of Art, London, UK
- Between Thought and Space, London, UK
- 2013
- Practise Architecture, Tate Britain, London, UK
- Close, Closer, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Portugal
- Parasite, OCEAN gallery, Berlin, Germany
- Draft Urbanism, Biennale of the Americas, Denver, CO
- Weird Science, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY
- 2012
- Higher Atlas, Marrakech Biennial, Morocco
- Living Space, So Far The Future, London
- This Apple Tastes Like Our Living Room Used To Smell, Deutches Archchitecture Zentrum, Berlin
- I’m Not Like Everyone Else, Teapot Gallery, Cologne, Germany
- 2011
- Open House with Droog and Diller Scofidio Renfro, Levittown, NY
- Paradesign, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
- The More Things Change, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
- Temporary Architecture, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
- Seitensprung: Raumproduktion, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany
- 2010
- Home Base V, Berlin , Germany
- Evaporative Building, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
- 2009
- Sensate, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
- Murmurs, Cranbrook Museum, Detroit, MI
- Concise History of Northwest Art, Tacoma Art Museum, WA
- 2008
- Homebase III, Harlem, New York City, NY
- 246 and Counting, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
- Traces and Accumulations, Wright Space, Seattle, WA
- 2007
- Happiness of Objects, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
- Insubstantial Pageant Faded, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA
- Dark Matters, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
- New Media Survey, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
- Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
- Sparkle then Fade, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
- Neddy Awards, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
- 2006
- Tryingtoland, Museo d’Arte Contemporane di Roma, Rome, Italy
- Three Rooms, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
- 2005
- Ergonomicon, Consolidated Works, Casey Kessler Curator, Seattle, WA
- 2003
- Passing Water, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
- 2002
- Latent Space, Henry Urbach and Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Holland
Selected Honors and Awards
- 2020
Civitella Raneri, Visual Arts Fellow
- 2019
Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Germany
- 2014
Pollock-Krasner Award, New York, NY, 2008
- 2013
Glass House Artist in Residence, New Canaan, CN
- 2012
CHESS Tuition and Fees Scholarship, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2011
Graham Foundation Fellowship, Chicago, IL
- 2010
- Arts Victoria, Production Award, Melbourne Australia
- International Artist Award, ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, MI
- 2009
Chinati Foundation, Artist in Residence, Marfa, TX
- 2008
- John Michael Kohler Arts Centre, residency, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 2001, 2003
- City Artists Grant, Mayor’s Office of Arts and Cultural affairs, 2004
- Arts Special Projects Award, 4Culture
- 2007
- Genius Award, The Stranger
- Neddy Award Finalist, Behnke Family Foundation
- 2006
- Artist Pension Trust, Los Angeles
- Artist Trust Fellowship
- City Artists Grant, Mayor’s Office of Arts and Cultural affairs
- Arts Special Projects Award, 4Culture
- 2005
- Rome Prize, 11 Month Fellowship, American Academy in Rome
- Arts Special Projects Award, 4Culture
- Public Arts Network Year in Review Selection
- 2004
Grant for Artists Projects, Artist’s Trust
- 1996
Full Tuition and Stipend Fellowship, Princeton University
Lectures and Teaching
- 2019
Pratt Institute, Adjunct Associate Professor, Masters and Undergraduate
In-Site Symposium, Lecture, Taipei
Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart, Lecture
- 2018
Pratt Institute, Adjunct Associate Professor, Masters and Undergraduate
IDEC, Keynote Lecture, New York
- 2017
- Parsons School of Design, Visiting Professor, Master Level
- Pratt Institute, Visiting Associate Professor, Masters and Undergraduate
- Pasadena Arts Council, Free Radicals, Lecture
- 2016
- Parsons School of Design, Visiting Professor, Master Level
- Pratt Institute, Associate Professor, Masters and Undergraduate
- Penny Stamps Lecture Series, Ann Arbor, MI, Lecture
- Royal College of Arts, London, UK, Lecture
- 2015
- Academy of Design, Linz, Lecture
- Parsons School of Design, Visiting Professor, Master Level
- Pratt Institute, Associate Professor, Masters and Undergraduate
- Hite Art Institute, Lecture
- 2014
- Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts, Visiting Professor
- Yale University, Lecture
- Bartlett, University College London, Lecture
- Pratt Institute, Associate Professor
- 2013
- Architectural Association, Visiting Professor
- New Works, Strelka, Moscow, Lecture
- Pratt Institute, Associate Professor
- Performative Renovations, Pratt Institute, Lecture
- Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, Hybrid Making, Visiting Professor
- 2012
- Performing Architecture, Symposium, Princeton University
- Performance Architecture, Symposium, Goethe Institute Lisbon
- Institute of Art and Architecture, Akademie der Kunst, Vienna, Visiting Professor
- Pratt Institute, Visiting Professor
- Performance Architecture, Pratt Institute, Lecture
- Performance Architecture, Colgate University, Lecture
- 2011
- Gopher Hole, London England, Lecture
- University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, Lecture
- Montserrat College of Art, Lincoln, MA, Lecture
- 2010
- Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, Visiting Professor
- Cornell University, Lecture
- Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Lecture
- 2009
- Emily Carr School of Art and Design, Lecture
- San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art, Lecture
- Cranbrook University, Lecture
- Chinati Foundation, Lecture
- 2008
- Harvard University, Lecture
- University of Greenwich, London, Lecture
- Colgate University, Hartford, NY, Lecture
- Portland Art Museum, Lecture
- 2007
- Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, Visiting Professor
- Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, Lecture
- 2006
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Lecture
- 2005
- Istituto Nazionale di Architettura, Rome, Italy, Lecture
- University of Greenwich, London, England Lecture
- Parsons School Of Design, NYC, NY, Lecture
- Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA Lecture
- 2003
Lawrence College, Lawrence, WI, Lecture
- 2002
- Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Lecture
- Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Lecture
- 2001
University of British Columbia, Lecture
Selected Media
- 2019
“Body Building: Performance and Architecture”, by Charles Aubin and Carlos Aubin Minguez Carrasco, Performa, New York
- 2018
- “Performance Now”, by RoseLee, Thames and Hudson, London
- “Kinetic Buildings”, by Dominic Bradbury, How to Spend It, Financial Times
- 2017
- “ReActor”, ArtForum, Cynthia Davidson, April
- “Architecture Gets the Acting Bug”, LA Times, Christopher Hawthorne, July
- “ReActor”, Art Papaers, Yassmeen Siddiqui, June
- “Alex Schweder”, TL Magazine, Adrian Madlener, May
- “Mobile Architecture”, Philipe Jodidio, Taschen, Cologne
- “Mobitecture, Architecture on the Move”, Rebecca Roke, Phaidon, London, New York
- “Performing Architectures” Juliet Rufford and Andrew Filmer eds., In Orbit of Dead Man Friend, Alex Schweder, Bloomsbury, London
- “Interiors Beyond Architecture”, Amy Campos and Deborah Schneiderman eds., Artists Occupying Interiors Occupying Artists, Alex Schweder, Routledge, New York
- “ReActor”, Ambiante y Color, Gisel Laracuente, July
- 2016
- “The Fourth Little Pig,” Alex Schweder, AA files 73, Tom Weaver ed., London, UK
- “Two Artists Built a Spinning House, and Then Moved in,” T Magazine, Laura Nielson, August, 4
- “Warum steht dieses Haus den auf einem Stock?”’ Stern, Gernot Kramper, 19 August
- “Piss Poor Performance”, Alex Schweder, Dirty Furniture 3/6, Toilet, London, UK
- “The Sound and The Future”, Alex Schweder, Log 36, Anycorp, NY
- “ReActor”, in Elemental Living, Phiadon, NY
- 2015
- “Counterweight Roommate”, Alex Schweder, Log35, Anycorp, NY
- “Never Built House”, Alex Schweder, Scroope Journal 25, Cambridge UK
- 2014
- “Something Borrowed”, Architectural Record, William Blakely, August
- Al Jazeera, In Orbit Feature
- Time Out New York, In Orbit Feature
- Hyporallergenic , In Orbit Feature
- Collab Cubed, In Orbit Feature
- BBC, In Orbit Feature
- New York 1, In Orbit Feature
- CBS News, In Orbit Feature
- Design Boom, In Orbit Feature
- 2013
- “The Hotel Rehearsal”, AA Files 67, Tom Weaver ed., London, UK
- “Open House”, Frieze Magazine
- The Guardian, Lisbon Architecture Triennial, London UK
- Arte Moscow, Performance Architecture Feature
- Numero, Performance Architecture Feature
- Today Show, Hotel Rehearsal Feature
- We Make Money Not Art, Performance Architecture, UK
- 2012
- “Performance Architecture”, Le Journal Special’Z, Lamis Bayar ed., Paris, France
- “From Program to Performance”, POST Magazine, London, United Kingdom
- 2011
- “Performance Architecture”, in Urban Interior, Rochus Hinkel (ed.), Germany, Surbuchverlag, 2011
- Domus, Temporary Structures, Italy
- 2010
- Exhibit Architecture, Log, Cynthia Davidson and Tina DiCarlo (ed.), Fall 2010
- Space, Time, Performance, Creative Cowboy Films, Australia, 2011
- 2009
- “Stalls Between Walls, Segregated Sexed Spaces”, in Ladies and Gents: Gender and Public Toilets, Olga Gershenson and Barbara Penner (eds.), Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 2009
- Stability, Yasmeen M. Siddiqui (ed.), exhibition cat., Seattle, Lawrimore Project, 2009
- 2007
A Sac of Rooms Three Times A Day, Urbach, Henry (ed.), exh. cat., Seattle, Suyama Space, 2007
- 2006
Transmaterial, Brownell, Blaine (ed.), New York, Princeton Architectural Press
- 2002
- Alex Schweder’s Peeple, Behavior Press, New York
- Shanghai Reflections, by Mario Gandelsonas, Princeton Architectural Press, New York