Play the Wind, Big West, 2019
Courtesy Alex Prager Studio and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul
Alex Prager is an artist and director who creates elaborately staged scenes that reference and are inspired by Hollywood cinema, experimental films, popular culture, and street photography. She cultivates the surreal in her photographs and films, creating moments that feel like a fabricated memory or dream, seamlessly blending together different cinematic traditions, from film noir to suspenseful thrillers.
Prager’s work have been exhibited widely including in FOAM Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam; The Photographers’ Gallery, London; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; and the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles. Her work is in numerous international public and private collections, including the Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum.
Her numerous awards include the FOAM Paul Huf Award (2012), The Vevey International Photography Award (2009), and the London Photographic Award (2006). Her editorial work has been featured in prominent publications, including Vogue, New York Magazine, and W, and her film series Touch of Evil, commissioned by The New York Times Magazine, won a 2012 Emmy award. Her first major public commission, Applause, for Times Square Arts: Midnight Moment, New York, took place in summer 2017.
Alex Prager will be joined in the Q&A by RJ Shaughnessy.
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