Alex Chowaniec’s projects engage intertwined questions of technology and the body; a gendered body as a social technology, and a national body as enviro-political mythology.
–Jarrett Earnest
Alex Chowaniec is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY and Co Founder of Chowaniec Projects, visualizing climate action through art.
Chowaniec has exhibited internationally, including at La MaMa in New York City; The Barbican Centre, London; Olga Korper Gallery, Art Toronto, Galerie d’Art Jean-Claude Bergeron and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Canada; Knockdown Center, National Academy of Design, Georges Bergès Gallery, Ortega y Gasset Projects, lorimoto, Grace Exhibition Space, SPRING/BREAK and Kleinert/James Center for the Arts in New York; Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum in Milwaukee, WI; and SOMArts Cultural Center and The Lab in San Francisco. She is represented in Canada by Wall Space Gallery and her works are available through Beaux-arts des Amériques, Montréal. Chowaniec holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, graduating with the Irene Pijoan Memorial Painting Award, and Joan Mitchell Foundation, Headlands Centre for the Arts, and SECA Award (SFMOMA) nominations. She received her BFA Honors from Queen’s University, in Canada.
The democratization of access to art is critical. Chowaniec’s goal is to expand how we achieve this; working in hybrid media (traditional and new) with the conscious goal of creating multiple access points for viewer engagement. Chowaniec is a contributing writer for the Brooklyn Rail.
Photo by Beatriz Meseguer, New York City, 2022.