Alexa Wright
http://www.alexawright.com
Education
1985-87
Newcastle Polytechnic MA Fine Art
1977-80 Winchester School of Art BA Hons Painting
1976-77 St Martins School of Art Foundation
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2002
Face Value Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery
2001
'I', Skin & After Image Howard Gardens Gallery UWIC, Cardiff
2001
'I' Loughborough University Gallery
2000 'I' Articule Montreal
1999 'I' Portfolio Gallery Edinburgh
1998 After Image Ruskin School Oxford
1998 Superposition Art & Science Fair Regina Saskatchewan
1995 Plug In Gallery Winnipeg, Mabitoba
1995 Toronto Photographers Workshop Toronto Ontario
1992 A Blemish on the Text installation Stills Gallery Edinburgh
1991
Skin Deep and Sweet Smiles installations
Experimental Arts Foundation Adelaide Australia
1990 The Garden of Earthly Desires Ridings Shopping Centre Wakefield
1988 Calouste Gulbenkian Gallery Newcastle u Tyne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2003
Geometry of the Face National Museum of Photography Copenhagen
2003 Life Below: Landscapes Beneath Consciousness Alternator Gallery, Kelowna BC and Floating Gallery, Winnepeg
2002 Metamorphing Science Museum London
2002 Works in Progress Kettles Yard Gallery, Cambridge
2002 Medicate Royal Pump Rooms Leamington Spa
2002 Perspective 2002 Ormeau Baths Gallery Belfast
2002 Stranger Than Truth Australian Centre for Photography Sydney
2001 FaceOn Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool + tour to Stills Edinburgh
2001 Yr1 Photographers Gallery; Stills; Open Eye (prizewinner) 2001 Egzotika Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius Lithuania
2000 Nurture & Desire South Bank London
2000 Two Icons: The Atom, The Body MuseumAfrica Johannesburg
2000 Lie of the Land Arnolfini Bristol
2000 Revealing bodies Exploratorium San Francisco
2000 Invisible Bodies Whiteleys London
1999 Lie of the Land John Hansard Gallery Southampton
1998 The Soft Machine Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
1998 Kobal Portrait Award National Portrait Gallery London
1998 Imaginaria ICA London
1998 Kerteriz Ataturk Cultural Centre Istanbul
1998 Digital Print Award Croydon Clocktower London
1997 Contemporary Photographers Victoria & Albert Museum
1997 Ins(c)ight Montage Gallery Derby
1997 Just an Illusion Cambridge Darkroom Gallery
1997 Disembodied Sainsbury Centre Norwich
1996 Side Tracking Gynaika (train touring Northern Europe) 1996 Love Randolph Street Gallery Chicago Illinois
1995 Rx Agnes Etherington Arts Centre Kingston Ontario
1995 Corps Machine La Centrale Montreal Quebec
1993 Intervening Spaces Darlington Arts Centre & Memorial Hospital
1990 Post Morality Kettles Yard Gallery Cambridge
Fellowships & Residencies
2002
Cambridge University: New Technology Arts Fellowship
1999/2000 Exploratorium San Francisco: Artist in Residence
1998/99 Napier University Edinburgh: Photo /Digital Media Fellow
1995 Jubilee Arts Birmingham: Internet.Sex.Identity
1995 Oxford Brookes University: Artist in Residence in
Electronic Imaging
1993 Banff Centre Alberta, Canada: Nomad
1993 Bemis Foundation, Omaha, Nebraska
1992 Banff Centre: The Instability of the Feminist Subject
1990 Ikon Gallery Birmingham: Performance residency
Grants & Awards
2002 Wellcome Trust Impact Award
2002 Arts Council Touring Grant
2001 Science on Stage and Screen, Wellcome Trust
2001 AHRB research award
2000 British Council exhibition grant
1999 London Arts Board Go & See Grant
1999 Gulbenkian Foundation Award for Art/Science Collaboration
1998 Imaginaria Digital Art Prize
1998 St Hughs Foundation Award
1998 Digital Print Award
1997
Wellcome Trust London: Sci-Art Award
1994
British Council Exhibition Award
1994 London Arts Board Go & See Grant
1993 Northern Arts Travel Award
1992 Arts Council of GB Travel & Research Grant
1990 Northern Arts Travel Award
1990 British Council Exhibition Grant
1989 & 87 Northern Arts Award
Public Collections
Victoria and Albert Museum
Loughborough University
Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa
Recent Publications
2003
At the Edge of Myself in Digital Creativity Magazine
2003 Intimate strangers: recent works pub: CARTE
2001 'I' Essay + images Public Culture Journal Chicago
2000 Conference paper given at Urban Futures Johannesburg
1999 Conference paper given at Invencao Sao Paulo
1998 Partial Bodies (image& text) in Desire By Design pub: IB Tauris
Recent Employment
1999-20
02 Univ. of Westminster Research Fellow/Lecturer MA
Photographic Studies & MA Visual Culture
1996-2001 Humberside Univ. 0.5 S/L BA Photography
1995-97 Surrey Institute of Art & Design P/T Lect Foundation
1994-95 Leeds Metro. Univ. P/T Lect BA Fine Art
1994-95 Leeds College of Art P/T Lect Foundation
1991 Lecture tour of Australia
1988-93 Cumbria College of Art P/T Lect Foundation