ALEXANDRA BROCHES
abroches@verizon.net

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
           
Gail Cahalan Gallery, Providence, RI, May-June, 2008   
BankRI, East Side Branch and Turk’s Head Branch, March and April 2005
BankRI, North Kingstown Branch, October 2004-January 2005
Flanagan Campus Art Gallery, Community College of RI, February, 2004
T.F.Greene Airport, Warwick, ArtCases, a project of RISCA, Nov.- Dec. 2003
Rhode Island College, The Hall Space, June-July 2003
Hera Gallery, June 2002
The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, May-June 2001
T.W. Wood Gallery, Vermont College, MFA Thesis Exhibition, August 1999
Hera Gallery, 1997, 1996, 1994, 1992

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009     Memento Mori: Contemporary Manifestations, Morehead State University,KY      
2008   The Altered Landscape, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
2007   5th Photographic Image Biennial Exhibition, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
            Hera Goes to Court, Courthouse Center for the Arts, West Kingston, RI
2006    Generations 5, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
            Omnium Gatherum, photographic exhibition, Warwick Museum of Art, Warwick, RI
            19 on Paper View, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI
2005     Rhode Island Open 19, Warwick Museum of Art, Warwick, RI
            19 Turns 19, 19 on Paper Anniversary Exhibition, Providence City Hall, RI
            Cornucopia, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
2004   Hera Gallery: The First Thirty Years, AS220 Project Space, Providence, RI and Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
            Sites of Memory and Honor, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
2003    Multiple Views: Hera at Smith’s Castle, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
            19 on Paper, Krause Gallery, Moses Brown School, Providence, RI
2002   RI Perspectives, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
2001    Places to Rest, national juried exhibition, Broward Community College, Davie, FL
            Artists Defend the Environment Under Siege, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
2000   Hera Gallery Exchange Exhibition, Angelo State University, San Angelo, Texas
            ENtitled/UNtitled, Women’s Caucus for Art, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
            74th Annual International Competition: Photography, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
            Generativity Slide-Quilt Project, an installation by Winn Rea with slides and fabrics from members of the WCA, Phoenix Gallery, NY, NY
            1999 Portrait of the City, juried exhibition, Museum of Work and Culture, Woonsocket, RI
            Celebratory Images: Artist Members from our First Decade, Courthouse Center for the Arts, West Kingston, RI
            Saugatucket River Celebration: Artists Respond to the River and its Environs, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
            Six Artists at Hera, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI           
            Hera Sojourn: Visions from North America, University of Wollongong Gallery, Wollongong, Australia
1998   Hera at AS220, AS220 Gallery, Providence, RI       
1997   Five Rhode Island Artists, South County Art Association, Kingston, RI
          Hera in Providence, Dryden Galleries, Providence, RI
          When Artists Set the Table, South County Center for the Arts, West Kingston, RI
1997   Common Ground, Pairs of Artists, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI
           Sanctuary, Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, Women's Caucus for Art,  Boston, MA
            Celebrating Women in the Arts, National Office Gallery, Women's Caucus for Art, NYC
1996    Beijing and Beyond, Women Artists Respond to the World Conference on Women,        
            Lever House, New York, NY, University of Texas at Dallas and other locations
            22nd Anniversary Exhibition, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
            Juried Photography Exhibition, South County Art Association, Kingston, RI
1995   Two-person show, Amsterdam Galerie, Newport, Rhode Island
            Tell Me a Story: Personal Narratives from the Women’s Caucus for Art Delegation, NGO Forum on Women, Fourth UN World Conference on Women, Huairou, China
           
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
           
Curator, “Memory, Identity, and Place”, Hera Gallery, March 2005
Co-Curator, “Hera Gallery: the First Thirty Years”, AS220 Project space, Providence and Hera Gallery, October-November 2004
Curator, “Sites of Memory and Honor”, Hera Gallery, March 2004
Curator, “RI 2000: Reflections on the Past” Installation work by Susannah Strong and James Montford. November 2000.
Curator, “Hera Sojourn: Visions from North America,” University of Wollongong Gallery, Wollongong, Australia, exchange exhibition, March 1999
Co-curator, “The Quilted Image,” February 1993
Curator, “The Domestic Violence Work,” multi media works by Peggy Diggs, November 1992
Co-curator, "Between the Personal and The Political: Photographs by Women," March 1991
Curator, “Heretical Bodies, Kerr + Malley”, October 1991
Co-curator, "The Constructed Photograph", May 1986
Curator, "Valentines '83", 1983
Curator, "Valentines", 1982

GRANTS AND AWARDS
           
74th Annual International Competition: Photography, The Julie Jensen Bryan and Robert Bryan Award, The Honorary Council Award of Excellence, The Print Center Selection Award, The Printer, Philadelphia, PA, 2000 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Project Support grant for publication of a history of Hera Gallery. Project director and author of proposal. Phase 11987; Phase II,1989
Melissa Meigs Barbeau Grant, Women's Advertising Club of Rhode Island, for tuition support, 1986

RESIDENCIES
           
Resident Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst VA 2005, 2008

EDUCATION 

M.F.A. in Visual Arts, Vermont College, August 1999
M.A., Studio/Art History, Hunter College (CUNY), New York, NY
B.A., Art, Bennington College, Bennington, VT