Visiting Artist Lecture with Alex Da Corte

Join the School of Art for a visiting artist lecture with celebrated artist Alex Da Corte on April 23 from 5:30 to 6:30 PM in Gearhart Hall (GEAR0026).

Bio: Alex Da Corte (b. 1980, Camden, NJ) is a Venezuelan-American artist. Institutional exhibition highlights include the survey exhibitions The Whale at the Modern Art Musem of Fort Worth (2025), Fresh Hell at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2023), and Mr. Remember at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (2022–23); the Whitney Biennial Quiet as It’s Kept (2022); the Roof Garden Commission for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2021); the Biennale di Venezia May You Live in Interesting Times, Venice (2019); the 57th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (2019); and solo exhibitions at Glenstone, Potomac (2025); the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2018); Secession, Vienna (2016); Art + Practice, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts (2016); Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2015); and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2014, together with Jayson Musson). Da Corte lives and works in Philadelphia. Recent longform critical writing include catalogue essays for the international touring exhibitions Marisol: A Retrospective and Ellsworth Kelly at 100. In 2026, with the Whitney Museum’s Meg Onli, Da Corte will co-curate the first Roy Lichtenstein retrospective in New York in more than 30 years. Da Corte was the 2023 Philip Guston Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.

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