Soft Power

Alex Da Corte (b. 1980, Camden, NJ) is a Venezuelan-American artist. Institutional exhibition highlights include the 20-year retrospective Mr. Remember at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (2022–23), the video survey Fresh Hell at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2023), and the painting survey The Whale at The Modern, Fort Worth, Texas (2025); Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland (2025), the Whitney Biennial Quiet as It’s Kept, New York, New York (2022); the Roof Garden Commission for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York (2021); the Biennale di Venezia May You Live in Interesting Times, Venice, Italy, (2019); the 57th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2019); and solo exhibitions at the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (2018); Secession, Vienna, Austria (2016); Art + Practice, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California (2016); MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts (2016); Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2015); and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2014, together with Jayson Musson). His work is featured in the collections of major institutions around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland; and the Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy. Recent longform critical writing include catalogue essays for the international touring exhibitions Marisol: A Retrospective and Ellsworth Kelly at 100. In 2026, with the Whitney Museum’s Meg Onli, Da Corte will co-curate the first Roy Lichtenstein retrospective in New York in more than 30 years. Da Corte was the 2023 Philip Guston Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. He lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.