Artist Statement

Alana Bograd explores the symbiotic decay and growth in motherhood, motherland, and the maternal body. Playing with themes related to interrupted rights; various selves and natures, confusion, sleep deprivation, and interruptions-- her worlds exist within an embrace of off-register forms and painting gestures, reflecting a society where the protections of the state and the autonomy of the body are increasingly out of alignment.

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Artist Bio

Alana Bograd is an artist with over 20 years of experience in painting, educating, and curatorial work. She has an MFA from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and BFA from The School of Visual Arts. She has exhibited extensively in the U.S. and abroad and her work is in various private collections including the James T. Dyke collection. She is based in Philadelphia.

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Awards, Projects, Affiliations

PAFA Alumni Residency, Philadelphia, 2014-2015

Artists To Outdoors Residency, Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA 2014-2016

Fleisher Wind Challenge Grant, Philadelphia, PA 2012

Member at Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA 2011-2012

Artists-In-Schools-Program Artist-in-Residence, The Print Center, Philadelphia, 2009-Present

Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Nominee, 2008

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Justine Cretella Memorial Scholarship, 2007

Artist in Residence, 92nd Street Y, Makor Gallery, Makor/Steinhardt Center of 92nd St. Y, New York, NY, 2006

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Selected Reviews/Publications

DuList Dubrovnik Contemporary, May 2015

Looking At Painting Volume 1 London, UK 2014

Wild Magazine/Bestiary Issue, October 2014

Knight Arts Blog, August 2013

Philadelphia City Paper, by Holly Otterbein, August 2012

Philadelphia Inquirer by Edie Newhall, May 2012

Philadelphia Inquirer by Edie Newhall, May 2012

Philadelphia Artblog by Chip Schwartz, May 2012

Title-Magazine.com by Eva Piatek, May 2012

WHYY, May 2012

Philadelphia Artblog by Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof, May 2012

Philadelphia City Paper by Courtney Sexton, May 2012


American Art Collectors Magazine by James Balestrieri, February 2012

Philadelphia Artblog by Libby Rosof, November 2011

Philadelphia Weekly, May 2009

Amy Wilson Blog (Working), May 2008

University City Review by R.B. Strauss, February 2008

Philadelphia Weekly by Brooke Midgley, July 2006

Philadelphia Weekly by Drew Lazor, July 2006

Philadelphia Weekly by Fallon and Rosof, 2005

Philadelphia City Paper by Lori Hill, October 2006

Philadelphia Inquirer by Dianna Marder, July 2006

Philadelphia Inquirer by Edith Newhall, January 2006

Flavorpill.net, May 31 - June 6, 2005, NYC Issue

MFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2008

BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 2004

Exhibitions 

2026
250 Years of Philadelphia Firsts, Exhibitions in Franklin Square Park and Betsy Ross House, Philadelphia, PA

The Black And White Show, Fun House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Zero Art Fair, Upstate New York Weekend 2024, Elizaville, NY
Co-founded by Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida

(re)FOCUS 2024: Then and Now, In Partnership with The Women’s Caucus for Art, City Hall, Philadelphia, PA

2023
No Synthetic Colors,  University of Pennsylvania, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Gallery, Hamilton Building at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Curated by Hallie Ringle, Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art

Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition 20th Anniversary Retrospective, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

Nurture, Pafa and FMC, FMC Tower, Philadelphia, PA

2022
Art Save Lives/Ukraine Relief Benefit, Razom Foundation, Palm Beach, FL

2019
Fever Vessels, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI

2017
Collective Action, 990 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA
Curated by Conrad Benner

2016
Mutant Nature, Gallery 3711, University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA
Solo Exhibition

Philadelphia 2076, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA

2015
Take It Easy, Dubrovnik Contemporary, Dubrovnik, Croatia

2014
PAFA Auction, Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Wild Magazine Exhibition, The World Wildlife Fund (WWF), New York, NY

Fifth Exhibition for BalletX, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Vital Flux, Gallery 107, Berkshire Cultural Resource Center, MCLA, North Adams, MA

Bushwick Open Studios, Storefront Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

InLiquid Exhibition, Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA

2013
Group Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum, Clinton, NJ
Juried by Dr. Ferris Olin

Best In Show, Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

VOX IX, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
Curated by Hilary Harkness and Hunter Braithwaite

Growth And Decay, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
Curated by Angela McQuillan

2012
The Cat Exhibition, Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Hung: Little Berlin Member Show, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA

Organon, Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

Peep, A Curious Look Into Painting, Philadelphia, PA
Curator, Little Berlin

Clusterf*ck, Family Business, Curated by Hennessey Youngman, New York, NY

Flashfl00d, Curator, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA

2011
I Am The Judge. I Am The Jury., Kianga Ellis Projects, Brooklyn, NY

Viking Makers: Where It’s At, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA

Afterlife, Curated by Jim D’Amato, New York, NY

Fleisher Challenge Solo Exhibition, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

Rema Hort Mann Foundation and Buy What You Love, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY

2010
Small Works Winter Invitational, Painting Center, New York, NY

Nurture Art Benefit, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, NY
Curated by Dan Cameron, Ceci Moss, Jane Panetta, Krista Saunders

Your Swimming Brain, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia Painters, The Painting Center, New York, NY

2009
Instance, Distance, Skybox Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist-Teacher Exhibition, Renaissance Building, Brooklyn, NY

The Swimming Cities of Serenissima, Honey Space, New York, NY

Young Artists, Old Fools, Caroline Dunlop Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Freshblood, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

New Work, Slought Foundation in Port Richmond, Philadelphia, PA

2008
Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

Material Color, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ

PAFA MFA Final Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA

145th Annual Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA

Sketchbook Show, Padlock Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Bambi Biennial, Bambi Gallery, Jurors: Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof, Philadelphia, PA

Risus, Art Space MCV, Brooklyn, NY

2007
Bog Down, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (SOLO)

When A Verb Becomes A Noun, Space Flux, Philadelphia, PA

Visions: Selections from the James T. Dyke Collection of Contemporary Drawings, Naples Museum of Art and the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR

2006
The Variety Show, The Falling Cow Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Imagined Heritage, The Falling Cow Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Boobies, The Falling Cow Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Works on Paper, Flux Factory, Queens, NY

Wandering, The Makor Gallery, New York, NY

Women's History Month, Bank of New York, New York, NY

2005
Out of Line, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Visual Aids, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY  

Philadelphia Cheek, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA  

2004
BFA Exhibition, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY