Education

2012 MFA, Columbia University School of the Art, New York, NY, USA

2004 BFA, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY, USA


Awards

2010 Columbia University School of the Arts Scholarship

2000 Cooper Union School of the Arts Scholarship

1999 Mark Rothko Scholarship Award


Selected Exhibitions and Screenings


2011

Strategies for Public Occupation

Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY


Neither a Lie Nor a Confession

Court Square, Long Island City, NY, USA

Curated by Ceren Erdem, Lisa H. Williams, Jaime Schwartz


Columbia University School of the Arts First-Year MFA Exhibition

Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Curated by Anna Craycroft


Search Settings

Postscript Gallery, New York, NY, USA


The Cooper Union Alumni Film Festival

The Cooper Union, New York, NY, USA


2010

Perpetual Peace Project at The Last Newspaper exhibition

New Museum, New York, NY, USA

(Collaboration between Alexandra Lerman, Laura Hanna and Aaron Levy)

Co-curated by Richard Flood and Benjamin Godsill


River to River Festival

Curated by Tal Yarden


An Exercise in Misreading (group show)

International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, NY

Curated by Anna Gritz



2009

Kyong Park. The New Silk Roads

MUSAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain

Curated by Octavio Zaya


IV Tashkent Biennial for Contemporary Art

Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Curated by Akbar Hakimov


Crosses (group show)

Janos Gat Gallery, New York, NY


2008

Reading Lenin with Corporations

PS122 Gallery, New York, NY, USA

(Collaboration with Yevgeniy Fiks and Olga Kopenkina)


Sonic Self (group show)

Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia


2007

Varia (group show)

Janos Gat Gallery, New York, NY, USA


Asphalt Shorts IV Festival

Oakland & San Fransisco, CA, USA


2006

When Artists Say We (group show)

Artists Space, New York, NY, USA

Curated by Andrea Geyer


Her Family and Other Animals (solo show)

Janos Gat Gallery, New York, NY, USA


Snow

Rabbithole Studio, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA

(Collaboration with Sandrine Harris)


2005

Outsourced. Contemporary Russian Artists Working in America (group show)

Current Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD


2004

FrenchMusic&WashingExtra

Houghton Gallery, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY (Collaboration with Doug Boatwright and Katherine Oechtering)


2004

Red Shift Festival

Anthology Archives, New York, NY


2003

Works On Paper (group show)

800 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


Curatorial Projects

2005

here.new york

Solyanka Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Group show featuring work by young US artists


2002

Daydreaming

White Space Gallery, London, UK

Group show of featuring work of Russian photographers


Work Experience

2005

The Ballad of Greenwich Village

Assistant Director, Chief Researcher

Documentary feature directed by Karen Kramer. New York, NY, USA


2006

Dikari

Assistant Director of Photography

Narrative feature directed by Viktor Shamirov

Director of Photography by Aleksandre Ilhovsky

Moscow, Russia


2007

Russia! The Drama of Art in 12 Episodes

Assistant Director

Documentary feature directed by Nina Zaretskaya. New York, NY, USA

Media


2007

SMAC:ScribeMedia Art Culture webTV channel www.smac.us

Founder, producer and editor of a Web video series that profiles artists, curators and other cultural creatives.


2009

Snob Magazine www.snob.ru present

New York culture blogger for a leading Russian magazine’s online publication.


Teaching


2011

Smolny Institute St.-Petersburg, Russia

Visiting artist lecture


2010-2011

Columbia University School of the Arts

Teachers assistant for Video Art (Prof. Shelly Silver) and

Sculpture (Prof Sanford Biggers)


2000-2003

Cooper Union School of Art, Saturday Program for High School Students

Sculpture, drawing and portfolio preparation. New York, NY, USA

Alexandra Lerman
(born 1980, Saint - Petersburg, Russia)

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