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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.

Awards and Residencies

2024
2024
S+M+ARTS Prize Nomination for Solar Protocol, Ars Electronica
2022
2022
Creative Media Award, Mozilla Foundation
2021-2022
2021-2022
Digital Infrastructure Incubator, Code for Science and Society
2021
2021
Artist in Residence, Flux Factory/ Aros Aarhus Art Museum
2020-2021
2020-21
Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future, Eyebeam
2019
2019
Micro Research Residency, The Watermill Center
2017
2017
Artist in Residence, The Watermill Center
2012-2016
2012-16
Artist in Residence, Flux Factory
2015
2015
Emergency Grant Recipient, Foundation for Contemporary Arts
2015
MATA Interval Curatorial and Performance Grant Recipient, MATA
2014
2014
Cuts and Burns Residency, Outpost Artist Resources
2012
2012
Time Based Residency, Institute for Electronic Arts

Selected Press

2023
2022
2021
2019
2018
2016
2016
“Alternative Spaces: Fung Wah Biennial,”Art in America, June 2016 (print edition)
2015
2014