ALEXANDRA BROCHES

                                   abroches@verizon.net

EXHIBITIONS          One-person exhibitions

                                       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 Cornucopia, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI

                                       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

                  2008           The Altered Landscape, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR

                  2007           5^th 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 and Hera Gallery

                                       Sites of Memory and Honor, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI

               2003               Multiple Views: Hera at Smith's Castle, Hera Gallery

                                       19 on Paper, Krause Gallery, Moses Brown School, Providence, RI

               2002               Rhode Island Perspectives, Hera Gallery

               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 theArts, 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: The First Thirty Years”, (co-curator with Barbara Pagh) 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

                                       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 I, 1987; 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