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, trans and crip communities, and anti-capitalist revolution that centers interdependence and cultivates connection to the earth. / Su práctica se basa en las comunidades cuir, trans y disca, así como en la revolución anti-capitalista que se centra en la interdependencia y cultiva la conexión con la Tierra.

Salerno exhibits nationally and internationally at venues such as Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt), O–Overgaden (Copenhagen), 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, and the Ford Foundation Gallery (NYC).

They received their MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design (2019) and their BS in Studio Art from Skidmore College (2016). They have been awarded a Wynn Newhouse Award (2022) and an Art Matters Foundation Artist2Artist Fellowship (2023), and 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 in programs across NYC such as the Visual Artist AIRspace Residency at Abrons Arts Center (2022-2023), BRIClab: Contemporary Art Residency Program at BRIC (2023-2024), LMCC Workspace Residency at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2024-2025), NY4CA Artist Advocates in Residence (2025), and the Winter Workspace Residency at Wave Hill (2026). Their most recent residencies include the No Lugar AIR Program at No Lugar – Arte Contemporáneo in Quito, Ecuador (2026) and Stove Works’ Artist Residency in Chattanooga, Tennessee (2026).