About
Chad Alexander is an artist from Northern Ireland. His work focuses on the impact conflict and control have upon urban environments, communities and individuals. Through his work and everyday surroundings he explores friction and harmonies, between place and identity.
Contact
chadalexander.info@gmail.com
Selected Exhibitions
2025 Nationhood: Memory & Hope, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow (upcoming)
2025 Nationhood: Memory & Hope, Ffotogallery, Cardiff (upcoming)
2025 Nationhood: Memory & Hope, Belfast Exposed, Belfast (upcoming)
2025 Belfast Photo Festival, 2025 (upcoming)
2025 Nationhood: Memory & Hope, Impressions Gallery, Bradford
2024 Inquiry, Belfast Exposed Gallery, Belfast
2022 Opening The Gates, PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin Castle, Dublin
2019 Agreement: The People’s Process, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
2019 Royal Ulster Academy, Ulster Museum, Belfast
2018 Invitation to Observe, Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool
2018 Artist in Residence Showcase, Ulster University, Belfast
2017 Junior Press, The Library Project, Dublin
2017 Life’s Single Lesson, Imagine: Politics & Ideas Festival, Belfast
Awards / Events
2025 National Lottery Heritage Grant, Artist Commission, Belfast Photo Festival
2025 Group Artist Talk, Impressions Gallery, Bradford
2024 Artist Commission, Impressions Gallery & Bradford City of Culture 2025
2024 Arts Council of Northern Ireland National Lottery Art Award
2023 Artist Talk, Belfast Exposed Gallery, Belfast
2022 Panel Chairperson, Think Tank Photography: An Empathetic Gesture, PhotoIreland, Dublin
2020 ‘Son’ short film commissioned and broadcasted by The BBC
2018 Artist Residency, Ulster University, Belfast, N. Ireland
2016 Artist Residency, DeFence, Royal Academy of Art, Antwerp, Belgium
Education
2017 BA Hons Photography, Belfast School of Art
Features / Interviews
2023 Materialising the Abstract, Essay by Kandace Siobhan Walker, Irish Photo Network
2018 University of Liverpool, Interview by Dr Lauren Arrington
2018 Nava Collection / Selected by Jacqueline Bates
2018 Junior Press Magazine Feature
2017 British Journal of Photography / Interview Article by Sophie Wright
2017 Source Magazine / Graduate Selection by Ivy Lahon
2015 Family Project. Life Syracuse University