Alex Nathanson is a designer, technologist, artist, and educator. His work is primarily focused on exploring both the experimental and practical applications of sustainable energy technologies, particularly photovoltaic solar power.

He is the founder and lead designer of the education and art platform Solar Power for Artists and its partner studio, Energy Transition Design LLC. The mission of both organizations is to make sustainable energy accessible, tactile, and understandable. As a solar power designer, he has created interactive and educational projects for the Climate Museum, Solar One, and the NYC Department of Education.

His book A History of Solar Power Art and Design was published by Routledge in 2021.

His artistic collaborators have included Dylan Neely, Kid Millions, Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez, Will Owen, Kendall Williams, Lindsay Packer, Benedetta Piantella, and Tega Brain. His artwork has been featured at Issue Project Room (NYC), the Climate Museum (NYC), the Museum of the Moving Image (NYC), Anthology Film Archives (NYC), Film Society of Lincoln Center (NYC), Dome of Visions (Copenhagen, Denmark), and the Art Prospect Festival (St. Petersburg, Russia), among other venues. He was one of the long-term artists in residence at Flux Factory, in Queens, NY from 2012 to 2016, and in collaboration with his multimedia performance group Fan Letters was awarded residencies at The Watermill Center in 2017 and 2019. Solar Protocol, a project he co-created with Piantella and Brain, has been awarded fellowships from Eyebeam and Mozilla. Some of the venues that he has been invited to speak at about his work include Eyeo Festiv al, Ars Electronica, Caltech, Bauhaus University, Aarhus University, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

A full list of past achievements can be viewed here.

If you are interested in my professional CV, you can see it at my Linkedin page.

If you are looking for my professional portfolios, you can find my solar design work here. Additional discipline/ domain portfolios are available upon request.