Weekend Portfolio: Alex Prager
Alex Prager (b. 1979, Los Angeles; lives and works in Los Angeles) is an artist and filmmaker who creates elaborately staged scenes that expose the often-overlooked aspects of everyday life and culture through complexly layered narratives and fictionalized characters. Her editorial work has been featured in prominent publications, including The New Yorker, 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. Prager has received numerous awards, including the FOAM Paul Huf Award (2012), The Vevey International Photography Award (2009), and the London Photographic Award (2006).
Prager’s work has been exhibited globally in institutions such as FOAM Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2019); Musée des Beaux-Arts Le Locle, Switzerland (2018); The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2018); National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (2014); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (2013); and is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York, among other international public and private collections.
Click here to view Alex’s most recent show, Play the Wind that was exhibited at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in New York September 2019.
