Alexandra Foradas

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Alexandra Foradas (she/they) is a curator and art historian based in North Adams, MA and New York, NY. She specializes in modern and contemporary art, with a particular interest in intersections of visual art and performance, and in technologies of knowledge transmission, including libraries, the internet, myths and legends, translation, ritual and embodied experience.

Foradas is currently curator at MASS MoCA(link is external) (North Adams, MA), where she has curated and co-curated exhibitions by artists including Osman Khan (Road to Hybridabad, 2024(link is external)), Jason Moran (Black Stars: Writing in the Dark, 2022(link is external)), EJ Hill (Brake Run Helix, 2022(link is external); monograph(link is external), 2024), Lady Pink (2022(link is external)), Taryn Simon (A Cold Hole | Assembled Audience, 2018(link is external)The Pipes, 2021(link is external)), Jenny Holzer (2017(link is external)2019(link is external)), Annie Lennox (Now I Let You Go..., 2019(link is external), co-curated with Joseph Thompson), Rachel Howard (Paintings of Violence [Why I am not a mere Christian], 2018(link is external), co-curated with Joseph Thompson), Nicholas Whitman (Main Gate 2017(link is external)), Janice Kerbel (Slip, 2017(link is external)), and Gunnar Schonbeck (No Experience Required, 2017(link is external), co-curated with Mark Stewart), as well as the group exhibitions Like Magic(link is external) (2023), Deep Water(link is external) (2022), Kissing through a Curtain(link is external) (2020; catalogue(link is external) 2021), How does your horn sound?(link is external) (2020) and Bibliothecaphilia(link is external) (2015).

Foradas has taught at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Hunter College and has been a guest lecturer or critic at institutions including the University of Michigan, Temple University, Art OMI, The Wassaic Project, The Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA), and the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA). She has juried exhibitions for MASS Art, UMass Amherst, Collarworks and Thorne Sagendorph Gallery at Keene State College, among others. Foradas previously worked at The Arts Club of Chicago and The Art Institute of Chicago. She holds an MA from Williams College and a BA from Bowdoin College. 

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