alexandra neuman
radiantreptilian@gmail.com
Education
2021, MFA in Visual Arts & Speculative Design, University of California San Diego
2019, Saas-Fee Summer Institute, Berlin, DE
2015, BFA in Visual Art & Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
Solo Exhibitions
2022
radical becoming in the ongoing now, Onomatopee Projects, Eindhoven, NL
2019
InfoSphere, Plexus Projects, Brooklyn, NY
An Ecology of Mind, Qualcomm Institute, San Diego, CA
The Hole is Way Deeper, UC San Diego Commons Gallery, San Diego, CA
Group Exhibitions
2023
Exploring the Earth as Lover, Performance Space, Manhattan, NY
NoBudge Live, Nitehawk Cinema, Brooklyn NY
Far Out Nashville, 666 Experimental Cinema Showcase, Nashville, TN
Courts Mais Trash Film Festival, Brussels, BE
2022
Sydney Underground Film Festival, Sydney Australia
Motel X Lisbon International Horror Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
Well Behaved Women, Culture Lab LIC, New York
Fantasia Film Festival, Montreal, Canada
F*CK ART: The Body and Its Absence, Museum of Sex, Manhattan, NY
2021
AND WE WILL SING IN THE TALL GRASS AGAIN: postcolonial futurities at the end of gender, The Front, San Diego, CA
There was earth in them, and they dug, Miriam Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Measurements of Progress, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
2020
E. Craig Wall Video Exhibition, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson, NC
Straight Through the Wall, Public Projection, Manhattan, NY
data_as_symbolic_form/exchange, hypertransferprotocol_http, Brasilia, BR [via twitch]
SlipStream, Refugee Solidarity SE, London, UK [via twitch]
Mouth Things, PRAKSIS Oslo, Oslo, NO [via zoom]
OVA, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Women’s Day Screening, Festival of Animation Berlin, Berlin, DE
2019
GRRL HAUS CINEMA, Loophole, Berlin, DE
Tech Open Air, Funkhaus Berlin, Berlin, DE
Under the Subway Video Art Night, Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY
The Eyeslicer, Multiple Locations, Brooklyn, NY
Straight Through the Wall, Public Projection, Manhattan, NY
E. Craig Wall Video Exhibition, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson, NC
The Last Resort, UCSD Main Gallery, San Diego, CA
2018
Demakijaż Women's Film Festival, Center for Culture, Lublin, PL
Grand Rapids Feminist Film Festival, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, CA
Les Femmes Underground International Film Festival, Phoenix, AZ
Not Dead Yet, C'mon Everybody, Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Women's Film Festival, Wythe Hotel, Brooklyn, NY
NoBudge Live, Nitehawk Cinema, Brooklyn, NY
Light Year, Public Projection, Brooklyn, NY
NOFLASH Video Show, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
Prelude to the Flood, New Works, Chicago, IL
2017
GRRL HAUS CINEMA, Loophole, Berlin, DE
Reclamation, APD Gallery, New York, NY
Straight Through the Wall, New York, NY
In Times Like These, Collaborative Concepts, Garrison, NY
Strano Film Festival, Capestrano, Italy
BLVD Project, Rockaway Beach, NY
2016
Echo, Holz Kohlen Koks, Berlin, DE
Unterton, Kunstraum Tapir, Berlin, DE
2015
St. Louis Filmmaker's Showcase, The Tivoli Theater, St. Louis, MO
Cinema at City Garden, City Garden Video Wall, St. Louis, MO
Civic Culture and Architectural Space, Creative Exchange Lab, St. Louis, MO
Femininity and Shame, ArtBar, St. Louis, MO
Role of Models in Art, Architecture, and Design, Creative Exchange Lab, St. Louis, MO
No Concentration, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Failure --> Progression, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO, curated by Ellen Harvey
2014
Methods of Distribution, Weitman Gallery, St. Louis, MO
PULSE, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Collections
Manhole. Van/Every Smith Gallery. Davidson College. Davidson, NC. (Acquired 2019).
Publications
radical becoming in the ongoing now, Onomatopee Projects, 2021
alternative energy, Cyberfeminism Index, Inventory Press, 2022
alternative energy, The Whole Sell, 2021
Honors and Awards
Graduate Summer Fellowship, UC San Diego Institute of Arts and Humanities (2020)
Russell Foundation Grant, University of California San Diego (February 2020)
Graduate Summer Fellowship, UC San Diego Institute of Arts and Humanities (2019)
Webby Award Honoree in Video: Best Writing (2019)
Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS), Calit2, University of California San Diego (2018-2019)
Best Screenplay, Brooklyn Women's Film Festival, New York (June 2018)
Residency Stipend, Arteles Creative Center, Finland (January 2016)
Morris M. Horwitz Award in Photography, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts (May 2015)
Magna Cum Laude, Washington University in St. Louis (2011-2015)
Workshops
Collage as Divination, Alchemist’s Kitchen, NYC
Tarot Play: Beginner’s Card Reading Workshop, Brooklyn, NYC
Her Blood is Gold: Full Moon Menstrual Blood Paint Party, Brooklyn, NYC
Bugs and Machines: A Closer Look at Everyday Aliens, ACUD, Berlin, DE
Sueños y Collage: Ritual Terapeutico-Creativo, Casa Kan, Mexico City, MX
Press
Indipendenti e (trans)femministe: 10 pubblicazioni, libri e
fanzine da conoscere, Vice Magazine, I-D Italy, 2023
F*CK Art: The Body and Its Absence, Dazed Digital, 2022
Fantasia 2022: Calvalcade of Perversions: Roger-Ebert, 2022
Digging into a Sentient Earth, Sammy’s World, 2021
Vaginal Planet: Delphic Chatbots and the Logic of the Spiral in Alexandra Neuman’s Alternative Energy, Sajetta Magazine, 2021
Residencies
PRAKSIS Oslo, Oslo, Norway (March 2020)
Takt Residency, Berlin, Germany (March 2016)
Arteles Creative Center, Haukijarvi, Finland (January 2016)
