Bio

Alex Dolores Salerno (b. 1994, Nacotchtank and Piscataway land / Washington D.C.) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY) in Turtle Island in Abya Yala. Their practice is informed by “queer-crip” community, and the radical shifts necessary to center interdependence and nurture connections to the earth. / Su práctica está informada por las comunidades cuir y "disca", y los cambios radicales que son necesarios para centrar la interdependencia y cultivar conexiones con la Tierra.

Salerno received their MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design and their BS in Studio Art from Skidmore College. They exhibit nationally and internationally at venues such as Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt), Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló (Castellón de la Plana), ARGOS centre for audiovisual arts (Brussels), Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT), Brooklyn Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, the Ford Foundation Gallery (NYC), among others. They have been awarded a Wynn Newhouse Award (2022) and an Art Matters Foundation Artist2Artist Fellowship (2023). Their work has been featured by press and publishers such as Art in America, NYU Press, Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, ALL ARTS, and Hyperallergic. Salerno has been an artist in residence across NYC at Art Beyond Sight’s Art & Disability Residency (2019-2020), the Artist Studios Program at the Museum of Arts and Design (2021), the Visual Artist AIRspace Residency at Abrons Arts Center (2022-2023), the BRIClab: Contemporary Art Residency Program at BRIC (2023-2024), and is currently participating in the LMCC Workspace Residency at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2024-2025) and NY4CA Artist Advocates in Residence (2025).