Alex Da Corte in black and white looks off to the left. He is playing with a necklace with what looks like a plastic spider in his fingers.
Alumni

BFA ’05 (Printmaking)

Alex Da Corte BFA ’05 (Printmaking) is an internationally recognized Venezuelan American artist who lives and works in Philadelphia. In addition to his studies at UArts, Da Corte earned his MFA in sculpture from the Yale University School of Art.

Da Corte’s exhibition highlights include the recent monographic 20-year survey of his work, Mr. Remember, at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (2022–2023); 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 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) with Jayson Musson BFA ’02 (Photography).

Da Corte has returned to UArts to present his brightly hued, compelling work that defies categorization. In 2020, as part of Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde, curated by Sid Sachs and Jennie Hirsh, Da Corte and Kate Watson-Wallace reinvented conceptual artist Alan Kaprow’s art happening Chicken in the same location it was originally performed, now known as Gershman Hall of University of the Arts. Most recently, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at UArts presented his solo exhibition The Street, a complex installation that comprises a suite of Da Corte’s recent large-scale, reverse-glass paintings, shown for the first time and hung against a mural of his own design in an environment that includes masonry columns, neon and placards.

Installation view of The Street
Alex Da Corte's solo exhibition The Street at UArts' Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery
An installation view of Alex Da Corte's exhibition "The Street" at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery
Alex Da Corte's solo exhibition The Street at UArts' Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery
An installation view of Alex Da Corte's exhibition "Mr. Remember" at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Alex Da Corte's exhibition Mr. Remember at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
a view from behind Big Bird, the star of Alex Da Corte's site-specific installation for The Met’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden
Alex Da Corte's site-specific installation for The Met’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden