Alix Pearlstein's practice spans the fields of performance, video, installation, sculpture and collage. Across these, Pearlstein employs mis-en-scène to propose connections through history, form and association. She often works with modular figurative objects, both handmade and readymade, as well as with ensemble groups of actors, mining their professional skills and personal dramas for points of connection or dissonance. Whether staging interactions between groups of people or groups of things, her works explore human subjectivity through relationships, behavior, character, power dynamics and social constructs, to highlight moments where the psychological and spatial overlap.
Pearlstein's work has been widely exhibited internationally. Selected solo exhibitions include The Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; ASHES/ASHES, NYC; UK Art Museum, Lexington KY; Upfor Gallery, Portland OR; On Stellar Rays, NYC; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; Ballroom Marfa, Texas; Samson, Boston; Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; CAM, St. Louis; The Kitchen, NYC, Lugar Comum, Lisbon, Portugal; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge MA and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Performances have been seen at Aspen Art Museum; Art Basel, Miami Beach; The Park Avenue Armory, and Salon 94, NYC. Selected group exhibitions include Parrish Art Museum, NY; FRONT Triennial, Cleveland, OH; Whitechapel Gallery, London; ParaSite, Hong Kong; The New Museum, NYC; INOVA, Milwaukee; MoBY-Museums of Bat Yam, Israel; Internationale D’Art De Quebec; Annual Exhibition of Visual Art, Ireland; The Whitney Museum, NYC; SMAK, Ghent, Belgium; Biennale de Lyon, France; Stedjelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and The Museum of Modern Art, NYC. Pearlstein is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Art Grants to Artists Award. She has been on Skowhegan’s Board of Governors since 2004, currently serving as co-chair. She lives and works in NYC and Orient, NY.
SOLO/TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS and PERFORMANCE
2023
INVENTORY, in Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase NY
2022
Procession, *QueenSpecific, presented by the Shell Projects, Toronto, Ontario
2021
We Shall Run (large land-animals, composition), Catbox Contemporary at NADA House, NYC
Library: Alix Pearlstein and Suzanne McClelland, Rosyendpost, Greenport, NY
2020
Which Witch, collaboration with Cheryl Donegan, Kerri Scharlin Salon, NYC – performance
2019
INTERIORS, ASHES/ASHES, NYC
2018
GRASS, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY
Harem ROOM-1 and Two Women, Upfor Gallery, Portland, OR
Alix Pearlstein and Peggy Franck, presented by Stellar Projects and Arcade Gallery, London, Stellar Projects, NYC
Godz Grlz, collaboration with Cheryl Donegan, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO – performance
2016
Harem ROOM-1, On Stellar Rays, NYC
2014
The Shining, Art Basel Miami Beach: Public, Collins Park, Miami Beach, FL - performance
Monøgram, Samsøn, Boston, MA
The Park, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
Goldrush, Landmarks Video, University of Texas, Austin, TX
2013
The Drawing Lesson, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
The Dark Pavement, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
2012
The Drawing Lesson, On Stellar Rays, NYC
2010
Shoot in 12 Shots, ICI Benefit, The Park Avenue Armory, NYC - performance
Shoot: Moving Paper Fantasy, Esopus Space, NYC - performance
Talent, On Stellar Rays, NYC
2009
Goldrush, The Front Room, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO
2008
After the Fall, The Kitchen, NYC
2006
The King, the Mice and the Cheese, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
2004
Arena, Salon 94, NYC - performance
2002
Episode, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, NYC
2001
Mirror (Stage): Studio, Lugar Commun, Lisbon, Portugal
1999
Partners, New Media Space, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
Partners, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Partners, Postmasters Gallery, NYC
1998
Still / Pause, The Grossman Gallery, School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1997
Interiors, The Video Gallery, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1996
Interiors, Postmasters Gallery, NYC
1995
Egg Yang, Lauren Wittels Gallery, NYC
1994
Postmasters Gallery, NYC
1993
Johan Jonker Galerie, Amsterdam, NL
Nayland Blake / Alix Pearlstein, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
1992
Postmasters Gallery, NYC
Project Room, Elizabeth Koury Gallery, NYC
Alix Pearlstein / Richard Phillips, Dennis Anderson Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
1991
Tom Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles, CA
Jesse Goode / Alix Pearlstein, Postmasters Gallery, NYC
1990
Laurie Rubin Gallery, NYC
1988
White Room, White Columns, NYC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Envisioning Democracy, organized by Nicholas Nemeth, Tufts University Art Galleries, Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, MA
The Movement Program: Choreographic Strategies in Video Art, organized by Charlotte Strange, EAI, NYC
Chemistry, Peninsula Gallery, NYC
Cineverao, organized by the Vera Chaves Foundation, Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2023
Artists Choose Parrish, Curated by Corinne Erni, The Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
Library, Organized by Glen Goldberg, Tappeto Volante, Brooklyn, NY
Site of a Dangerous Leap, Curated by Janie Welker, UK Art Museum, Lexington, KY
Veni Vide Video, Curated by Sharon Balaban, The Lambert Center for the Arts, NYC
2021
Isolation is the Mother of Invention, Curated by Kathryn Brennan, IAIA, NYC
For the Birds, Curated by Eddie Martinez, Harpers, East Hampton, NY
Transmission, Curated by Leonora Loeb, Underdonk, NY
Mise en Scene, Curated by Veronica Gonzalez Pena, Shoot the Lobster, NYC
2020
This is America, Curated by Stuart Horodner, UK Art Museum, Lexington, KY
Meme! 2020, Curated by Leonora Loeb and Sam Bornstein, Underdonk, NY
2019
Ho Hum All Ye Faithful, Bravin Lee Programs, NYC
Dark Mode (2014-2019), ASHES / ASHES, NYC
Hillary, Cinema Program, curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, Despar Teatro Italia, Venice, IT
Louder than Words, Curated by Teresa Bramlette Reeves, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA
Notebook, Curated by Joanne Greenbaum, 56 Henry, NYC
2018
Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, artistic director Michelle Grabner, Cleveland, OH
Body So Delicious, curated by Bridget Finn, Reyes Projects, Birmingham, MI
Group Exhibition 8, Luke Glanton Gallery, Rockaway, NY
Video Now Now Now: Directed by Women, curated by Sarah Lasley, Indiana University, Bloomington
2017
Videos for a Stadium, organized by Stuart Horodner, Commonwealth Stadium, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington,KY
The Armory Show, On Stellar Rays, NYC
Post-Election, organized by Kristin Dodge and Kate Gilmore, September Gallery, Hudson, NY
2016
Edited at EAI: Restless Generation Performance Video, 1993-1999, organized by Rebecca Cleman and Lori Zippay, Electronic Arts Intermix, NYC
Re-Action Genealogy and Countercanon, curated by Su Alonso and Ines Marful, Casal Solleric, Palma, Exhibition and Documentation Centre, Mallorca, Spain, Museo Barjola, Gijon, Spain and Sala Laudeo, Oviedo University, Asturias, ES
2015
Histories of Sexuality, curated by Johanna Burton and Alicia Ritson, The New Museum, NYC
The Good Earth, Kerry Schuss, NYC
2014
Video Container: Touch Cinema, organized by Sarah Sulistio, MoCA North Miami, FL
Nada: Miami Beach, On Stellar Rays, Miami Beach, FL
Reliable Tension or: How to Win a Conversation about Jasper Johns, curated by John Pilson, 32 Edgewood Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Enacting Acting, curated by Sara Krajewski, INOVA, Milwaukee, WI
2013
My Future Ex, curated by Sandra Q. Firmin, UB Art Galleries, Buffalo, NY
Artists Film International: Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK Traveling: Belgrade Cultural Centre; CCA Afghanistan, Kabul; Cinemathèque de Tanger; City Gallery Wellington, NZ; Fundacion PRÒA, Buenos Aires; GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy; Istanbul Modern; KINOKINO Centre for Art and Film, Norway; New Media Centre, Haifa; Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong; Project 88, Mumbai; Hanoi DocLab; NBK-Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, GE
2012
Funny, curated by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, The Flag Art Foundation, NYC
The Herd Remorse, curated by Lenore Malen, Lesley Heller Workspace, NYC
2011
Electromediascope Winter 2011: InsideOut: New Performance Videos, curated by Gwen Widmer, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Zona Maco: Arte Contemporaneo, Samson Projects, Mexico D.F., MX
A Look at Talent: Alix Pearlstein, curated by Amanda Schmitt, Physical Center at Guest Project, London, UK
2010
7 Artists 7 Days 7 Hours, Smith-Stewart at Big Screen Project, Eventi Hotel Plaza, NYC
Artissima 2010: International Fair of Contemporary Art, On Stellar Rays, Turin, IT
Signals, curated by Danna Taggar Heller, MoBY, Bat Yam Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, IL
Do / Redo / Undo – 50 Years of Video Performance, Wiels Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels, BE
Lumen Festival, curated by Ginger Shulick, Atlantic Salt, Staten Island, NY
Compose, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, David Krut Projects, NYC
2009
45 years of Performance Video from EAI, in conjunction with 100 Years (version #2),organized by PS 1 and Performa 09, PS 1, MoMA, NYC
Lover, curated by Kate Gilmore and Candice Madey, On Stellar Rays, NYC
2008
The Quebec City Contemporary Art Biennial: Manif Internationale D’Art De Quebec 4, curated by Lisanne Nadeau, Galerie des arts Laval, Quebec City, CA
Bugs for Teeth and Other Ways of Thinking: Lumen Eclipse, Harvard Square, Cambridge MA
Idiot Joy Showland: An Evening of Film and Video by Artists, organized by John Pilson and Claudia Altman-Siegel, CAC, Cincinnati; IFC Film Center, NYC; Dallas Video Festival TX (07’)
2007
Performance on Demand: EAI Viewing Room at EFA Gallery, Performa 07, NYC
Highly Defined: New Works from Voom HD Lab, curated by Steve Seid, PFA, Berkeley, CA
Protoger / Enfermer, curated by Corinne Charpentier, Musee department du Sel, Marsal, FR
EV + A 2007, A Sense of Place: Annual Exhibition of Visual Art Ireland, curated by Klaus Ottmann, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, IE
Fuzzy Logic, curated by Patrice Duhamel, The Clark Centre, Montreal, CA
Dear Mosquito of My Heart, curated by Daana Tagaar, CCA, Tel Aviv, IL
2006
I Drank the Kool Aid: (The Experiment Requires That you Continue), curated by Bruce Hackney and Anna Kustera, Anna Kustera Gallery, NYC
Wayward 16: Greatest Hits, curated by Lisa Kirk, The Wayward Canon, London, UK
DUMBO Short Film and Video Festival, Brooklyn NY
Look, Win, Get It On, curated by Art Office, UCLA EDA, Los Angeles
Video Window Project, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2005
Performative Video, curated by Camilo Alvarez, Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama City, PA
Experience, Memory, Re-enactment, curated by Florian Wuest, Piet Zwart, Rotterdam, NL
New Video, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY
2004
Artprojx Cinema Series Two, Prince Charles Cinema, Frieze, London, UK
Videoex Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zurich, CH
When I Think About You I Touch Myself, curated by David Humphrey, NY Academy of Art, NYC
Body Snatchers, Pacific Switchboard, Portland, OR
Corporal Identity-Body Language:The Moving Image, Museum of Arts and Design, NYC
2003
Fast Forward: 20 years of White Rooms, curated by Lauren Ross, White Columns, NYC
Alix Pearlstein, Chloe Piene, Aida Ruilova, Salon 94, NYC
Up: Films and Videos on Flying, curated by Luca Buvoli, White Box Gallery, NYC
The Standard Projection: 24/7, curated by Yvonne Force / Art Production Fund, Los Angeles
Art in General Video Project, organized by CEC International, NCCA, Ekaterinburg, MCA, Kliningrad, Pro-Arte, St. Petersburg, Moscow New Media Lab, RU
New Video, Galerie Frehrking Wiesehofer, Koln, GE
Acts of Futility, curated by Miriam Sternberg, Bellevue Art Museum, WA
2002
Pictures, Patents, Monkeys and More…On Collecting, curated by Ingrid Shaffner, ICA Philadelphia, PA
Video Art: Changing Channels, School of Visual Arts, NYC
Art in General Video Project, CEC International, touring screening program, RU
Video Art 1990-2002, curated by Janet Kardon, Long House Reserve, East Hampton, NY
2001
Video Jam, curated by Michael Rush and Galen Joseph Hunter, Palm Beach ICA, FL
Casino 2001; 1st Quadrennial of Contemporary Art, curated by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, SMAK, Ghent, BE
Videoprogramm, curated by Florian Wuest, Galerie Michael Zink, Munich, GE
Drama Queens: Women Behind the Camera, curated by Maria-Christina Villasenor, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC
Faces of Laughter, curated by Milka van der Elk, Stedjelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
See Through: Hannah Wilke, Karen Finley, Alix Pearlstein, curated by Galen Joseph Hunter, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art; NY Center for Media Arts, NYC
Images Festival, Toronto, CA
Alex 8, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL
2000
Insites, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT
Six Signals, Cheekwood Museum of Art Installation Galleries, Nashville, TN
The Body in Photographs, curated by Amada Cruz, Bard CCS, Annendale on Hudson, NY
The American Century: Art & Culture Part ll, 1950-2000: The Cool World, curated by Chrissie Isles, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
Kasseler Dokumentarfilm & Videofest, Kassel, GE
New Photographs, Baumgartner Gallery, NYC
World Wide Video Festival, Melkweg Galerie Installation and Screening, Amsterdam, NL
TransMediale Festival, Berlin, DE
Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto, CA
New Works: Recent & Historical Artist’s Videos from EAI, DIA Foundation, NYC
1999
Regarding Beauty, curated by Olga Viso, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE
Videolounge, curated by Costa Vece and Patrick Huber, The Venice Bienale, Venice, IT
54x54x54, curated by Michael Petry, Museum of Contemporary Art, London, UK
Videophoto, curated by Stuart Horodner, Bucknell Art Gallery, PA
Video Forum, curated by Paola SerraZanetti, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, IT
Impakt Fesival, Flatlands Galerie; installation, Utrecht, NL
TransMediale Festival, Berlin, DE
InVideo Festival, Milan, IT
Girlschool, curated by Maureen Mahoney, Catherine Morris, Brenau U. Galleries, Georgia
Video Lisboa 99, Lisbon, PT
1998
Allo Specchio, curated by Valentina Valentini, Rome, IT
World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, NL
Reel New York, Channel Thirteen / WNET, NYC
Pop Surrealism, curated by Ingrid Shaffner, Dominique Nahas, Richard Klein and Harry Philbrick,
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Cloth-Bound, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK
Video Library, David Zwirner Gallery, NYC
Rotterdam Film Festival: Exploding Cinema, Rotterdam, NL
Presumed Innocence, curated by Jean Crutchfield, Anderson Gallery, VCU, Richmond, VA
Impakt Fesival, Flatlands Galerie; Installation, Utrech, NL
I’m Still in Love With You, curated by Steven Hull, 20th Century Club, LA
1997
Pagan Stories: Situations of Narrative in Recent Art, curated by Janet Kraynak, Apex Art, NYC
Mediated Presence: 3 Decades of Video from EAI, DIA Foundation, NYC
ete 97, curated by Veronique Bacchetta, Centre d’edition Contemporaine, Geneva, CH
Video Divertimento, curated by Susan Hapgood, San Casciano dei Bagni, Tuscany, IT
A Thing of Beauty is, curated by Michael Petry, Museum of Contemporary Art, London, UK
Projects.doc, Weston Art Gallery, The Robert J. Shiffler Collection and Archive, Ohio
Young and Restless, curated by Stephen Vitiello, Barbara London and Sally Berger, MoMA, NYC
Video Viewpoints, Screening and Lecture, MoMA, NYC
Up Close and Personal, curated by John Ravenal, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Microwave Festival, Videotage, Hong Kong
1996
Can We Talk?, Basilico Fine Arts, NYC
Pandemonium Festival, London, UK
Nude, curated by Heidi Zuckerman, Trans Hudson Gallery, NJ; Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco; Art & Idea, Mexico D.F.
Sturecompagniet, Roger Bjorkholmen Galerie, Stockholm, SE
14th Annual World Wide Video Festival, The Hague, NL
Video Program, curated by Gianfranco Mantegna, Bienalle of Lyon, Lyon, FR
PSY-FI, curated by Jay Anderson and Ken Weaver, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
1995
Madeleines, curated by Amanda Trager, Apex Art, NYC
Wheel of Fortune, curated by Amy Lipton, Lombard Fried, NYC
1* Video Festival del Mediterraneo, Pantelleria, IT
Toying With Nature, curated by Jeannie Denholm, Maggi Owens, California State University
Rio Cinefest, Rio de Janeiro, BR
Guys and Dolls, Postmasters Gallery, NYC
Video Positive 95, Liverpool, UK
Sit Down and Watch It, Artists Space, NYC
Slacker Attitude, curated by George Barber, ICA, London, UK
1994
Use Your Allusion, curated by Richard Francis, Dominic Molon, MCA Chicago
Blast 4: Bioinformatica, Sandra Gering, NY; Kolnischer Kunstverein, Koln, GE
D.I.Y., curated by Paul Ha, White Columns, NYC
Oh Boy, it’s a Girl, curated by Hedwig Saxenhuber, Kunstverein München & Wien, Vienna, AT
Faith in Doubt, curated by Allan Harris, Center for the Arts, Buffalo, NY
Who Killed Mr.Moonlight?, curated by Charles La Belle, Exit Art, NYC
L’Invasione degli Ultra Piccoli, curated by Alessandra Galletta, Transepoca, Milan, IT
Guys and Dolls, curated by Tony Oursler, Videospace at the ICA, Boston
Bad Girls, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC
N.Y.-N.L.-X.X., Geemente Museum, Helmond, NL
The Press, Horodner Romley Gallery, NYC
1993
Substitute Teacher, curated by Regine Basha, Stuart Horodner, Bronfman Center, Montreal, CA
Fluff From New York, curated by Trudie Reiss, Christopher Grimes, Los Angeles
Transient Décor, curated by Saul Ostrow, Roger Smith Hotel, NYC
Outside Possibilities 93, curated by Bill Arning, The Rushmore Festival, NY
Simply Made in America, curated by Barry Rosenberg, The Aldrich Museum, CT; CAC, Cincinnati; Palm Beach Museum of Art, FL; Butler Institute, OH: Delaware Art Museum
Free Lunch, Centre d'Art Contemporaine, Martigny, Switzerland
DUH, Stephanie Theodore Gallery, NYC
1992
A Whiter Shade of Pale, curated by Udo Kittelmann, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Koln, GE
The Anti–Masculine, curated by Bill Arning, Kim Light Gallery, LA
7 Rooms / 7 Shows: Habitat, curated by Kathleen Cullen, P.S. 1, NYC
Under 30, curated by Erik Oppenheim, Galerie Metropole, Vienna, AT
Funny Ha–Ha or Funny Peculiar?, fiction/nonfiction, NYC
Ornament: Ho Hum All Ye Faithful, John Post Lee Gallery, NYC
1991
David Kezur/ Alix Pearlstein/ Alan Rath, Germans van Eck Gallery, NYC
Home, curated by Eric Oppenheim, Home for Contemporary Theatre & Art, NYC
Nano Sense, Dooley le Cappellaine Gallery, NYC
1990
Oberflachliche Ideen, ID Galerie, Dusseldorf, GE
Total Metal, curated by Richard Phillips, Simon Watson Gallery, NYC
Emerging Artists 90, curated by Sam Hunter, NJ State Museum, Trenton
All Quiet on the Western Front?, Galerie Antoine Candau, Paris, FR
Works on Paper, Paula Allen Gallery, NYC
1989
Summer Exhibition, Galerie Ryszard Varisella, Frankfurt, GE
Climate 90, Sculpture, Laurie Rubin Gallery, NYC
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2023
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Richard Huntington, “Faith in Doubt”, The Buffalo News, Nov.22
Alix Pearlstein, statement in “Working Conditions”, Meaning #16, Fall
Al Harris F., Karen Emenhiser, “Faith in Doubt: a speculation on the function of humor in Contemporary art”, catalog essay, Center for the Arts, SUNY Buffalo
Claire McConaughty, “S.I.B.”, Pretty Decorating, September
Kim Levin, Art/Choices, “S.I.B.”, Village Voice, July 26-Aug.1
Kim Levin, Art/Choices, Alix Pearlstein at Postmasters,Village Voice, April 27
1993
Abbie Weinberg, Review of “Substitute Teacher", Concordian, Dec.10
Peter Frank, "Trancesex", Video Pick of the Week, L.A. Weekly, July 16–22
Terry R. Myers, "Alix Pearlstein", Review, Tema Celeste, Spring
David Kelleran, “Alix Pearlstein at Postmasters”, Review, Flash Art, Jan./Feb.
1992
Susan Kandel, review of “The Anti–Masculine", Los Angeles Times, Dec.17
Alan Schwartzman, “Goings On About Town", The New Yorker, Nov.16
Andrea K. Scott, “An Eloquent Silence", Article Tema Celeste, Autumn
Alix Pearlstein, “The Question of Gender in Art", Artist Statement Tema Celeste, Fall
Maia Damianovic, “Opinions”, Article, Tema Celeste, Summer 1992
Kim Levin, Art/Choices (fiction/nonfiction), The Village Voice, Feb.18
1991
Dan Cameron, article, “The Critical Edge: Arranging Things”, Art & Auction, February
Robert Mahoney, “Goode / Pearlstein at Postmasters", Review, Arts, December
Ruth Bass, “Kezur, Pearlstein, Rath", Review Germans Van Eck, Art News, December
Dorothy Gelatt, “Twenty Years Later at 420", Article, Maine Antique Digest, November
Lisa Liebman, “Germans Van Eck", The New Yorker, October 14
Tobey Crockett, “Galleries, Alix Pearlstein: Tom Solomon’s Garage", Venice Mag., May
1990
Jennifer Borum, review, “Alix Pearlstein: Laurie Rubin Gallery”, Artforum, April
Lewis Kachur, “Alix Pearlstein at Laurie Rubin”, Review, Art International, Summer
Terry Myers, “Alix Pearlstein at Laurie Rubin Gallery”, Review, La Piz, April
1988
Philippe Evans–Clark, “Alix Pearlstein at White Columns", Art Press, May
TEACHING / LECTURES / AWARDS / MISC.
2024
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Board of Governors 2004 – present, Leadership Co-Chair, 2023 – present
School of Visual Arts, MFA Fine Arts Program - Faculty (2009 – present)
2021
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants Panel (2017 – 2021)
2018
Yale University, MFA Program, Design Department, Guest Critic
2016
The Jewish Museum, AM at the JM - Artist Talk with Curator Jens Hoffmann
Columbia University, MFA Program - Visiting Artist
UCLA, MFA Program - Guest Lecturer / Visiting Artist
2015
Lesley University, MFA in Visual Arts Program - Guest Lecturer / Visiting Artist
2014
School of Visual Arts, MFA Fine Arts Program - Guest Lecturer
2013
University of Maine, InterMedia MFA Program - Guest Lecturer / Visiting Artist
Cornell University, Department of Art - Guest Lecturer / Visiting Artist
2012
Sotheby’s Institute of Art - Guest Lecturer
Yale University, MFA Program, Sculpture Department - Guest Lecturer / Visiting Artist
2011
Foundation for Contemporary Arts, 2011 Grants to Artists Award (performance art / theater)
Boston Museum School of Fine Arts - Guest Lecturer / Visiting Artist
School of Visual Arts, Critical and Visual Studies Program – Faculty
2010-11
Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Film / Video Department - Faculty
2010
Princeton University, Program in Visual Arts, Senior Thesis Seminar - Visiting Artist
University of Las Vegas, Department of Art - Guest Lecturer / Visiting Artist
New-ART-theater, Panel moderated by Paul David Young for PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (MIT) Press, Panelist, Apex Art, NYC
Hunter College, MFA Program - Guest Lecturer / Visiting Artist
Intersections with Art and Performance, Panel moderated by Gavin Kroeber, hosted by Creative Time,
Panelist, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The CUNY Graduate Center, NYC
2009
School of Visual Arts, MFA Fine Arts Program - Faculty
PNCA, Visiting Artist in Residence, Portland and Caldera, Oregon
Pratt Institute, Guest Lecturer, Sculpture Club
School of Visual Arts, MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Program - Visiting Critic
Virginia Commonwealth U., Department of Photography and Film - Guest Lecturer / Visiting Artist
Harvard University, VES, Tactics-Art, Politics, Performance – Guest Artist
Purchase College, MFA Program – Guest Artist
2008
Yale University, MFA Program, Sculpture Department - Lecturer: Video Seminar
In Dialogue: Andrea Scott / Alix Pearlstein, organized by Doug Wada, Sara Meltzer Gallery, NYC
Bard College, Graduate School of the Arts, Film Video Department - Guest Lecturer / Visiting Artist
The Outpost, Brooklyn NY - Cuts and Burns Residency (07-08) / Artistic Advisory Board (08 - )
World’s Smallest Art Fair: Video Program organized by Alix Pearlstein, Anna Kustera Gallery, NYC
2004-08
Parsons The New School for Design, MFA Program - Core Faculty
Skowhegan TALKS at PS1: Shana Moulton and Alix Pearlstein, PS 1/MOMA, LIC, NY
2007
Maine College of Art, MFA Program - Visiting Artist
2006
Yale University, MFA Program, Photography Dept.– Lecturer: Video & Performance Art Workshop
VOOM HD Lab Outreach Program - Commission
MIT, List Visual Arts Center - Gallery Talk
UCLA, Undergraduate Program New Genres Department – Instructor: Advanced New Genres
2004
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture - Resident Artist Faculty / Board of Governors (05 – present)
Yale University, MFA Program - Final Critique Panelist
Parsons The New School for Design, Photography Department - Guest Lecturer
SUNY Purchase, MFA Program - Guest Lecturer / Visiting Artist
2000-04
School of Visual Arts, Fine Arts Department - Instructor: Advanced / Intro. Video Art
2003
Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Film Video Department - Graduate Faculty
New York University, MFA Program - Instructor: Graduate Studio Critique
Pratt Institute of Art and Design - Guest Artist
Yale University, MFA Program - Guest Artist
2001
New York University, MFA Program - Instructor: Grad. Studio Critique / Thesis Committee (01-02)
2000
Subterfuge: A Program of Performance Works in Progress, curated by Alix Pearlstein, IMPAKT
Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
California Institute of the Arts, MFA Program - Guest Lecturer / Visiting Artist
Maine College of Art, Graduate Studies, Summer Intensive - Resident Visiting Artist
Maryland Institute College of Art - Visiting Instructor in Senior Studio: Sculpture in 2 Directions
1999-00
Maine College of Art, Graduate Studies - Non-Resident Graduate Student Advisor
1999
Illinois State University at Normal - Visiting Artist in Residence / Guest Lecturer, Seminar Instructor
Concordia University, Fine Arts Division - Guest Lecturer
University of Maryland, Art Department - Guest Lecturer
Tyler School of Art, Sculpture Department - Guest Lecturer / Visiting Artist
Rutgers University, MFA Program - Guest Lecturer / Visiting Artist
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca NY - Guest Lecturer
Conversations, Four Walls, New York
1998-00
Pratt Institute of Art and Design, Media Arts Department - Instructor: Video 1
1998
Rhode Island School of Design, MFA Program- Guest Lecturer / Visiting Artist
School of Visual Arts - Guest Artist
New York University - Guest Artist
The Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston - Guest Lecturer
San Jose State University School of Art and Design - Guest Lecturer
1997
Video Viewpoints, Screening and Lecture, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Alfred University, MFA Program - Guest Lecturer / Visiting Artist in Residence
The Philadelphia Museum of Art - Panelist in conjunction with exhibition
The Mac Dowell Colony: Residency (and 1988, 1989)
California Institute of The Arts - Guest Artist
Art Center College of Design - Guest Artist
Otis College of Art and Design, Fine Arts Dept.- Guest Lecturer
1996
Art Matters Inc.: Fellowship
1995
Rhode Island School of Design - Guest Artist
The Edward F. Albee Foundation - Residency (and 1992)
1994
New York University - Guest Artist
SUNY at Buffalo - Panelist in conjunction with exhibition
1993
Cornell University, Ithaca NY - Alumni Artists Panel
1991
Brooklyn College, Art Department - Instructor; 3D Design
1990-91
Rockland Community College - Instructor: Sculpture I, II, 3D Design
1989
National Endowment for the Arts: Fellowship in Sculpture
EDUCATION
1983 BS, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
1988 MFA Sculpture, SUNY at Purchase, Purchase NY