Alex Fleming (b. 1984, Detroit) is an artist and curator based in New York City. Together with Anya Komar, Fleming is co-founder of NYC gallery Ulrik. Exhibitions at Ulrik have been featured in The New Yorker ,The New York Times, and The Manhattan Art Review.
Beginning in 2013 Fleming has worked closely with particular artists. Fleming acted as a care provider, aid and collaborator to the artist Park McArthur through her first two solo exhibitions. McArthur, Fleming and artist Constantina Zavitsanos worked together on programs for McArthur’s watershed exhibition Ramps. Subsequently, McArthur’s second solo exhibition held at Yale Union, titled Park McArthur with Alex Fleming, featured works made by the two artists separately and together.
In 2015 Fleming and Bridget Donahue curated the “return” exhibition of designer and artist Susan Cianciolo. The exhibition followed the artist’s long hiatus from the New York art world. A selection from Fleming’s curated display of the artist’s archive was selected as the Artforum cover, November 2015. The exhibition traveled to Yale Union and 365 Mission Road.
In recent years Fleming has worked as an assistant instructor at Harvard University in the department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies. In 2021 and 2022 he co taught a studio course in AFVS focused on instititional critique together with Professor Carissa Rodriguez. Fleming has also been a visiting critic in the department of painting and printmaking at Yale University, a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at The Whitney Independent Study Program, and a Researcher at the MIT List Center for Visual Art. He has published texts in FlashArt and Texte Zur Kunst.
Fleming has worked as Curator at the performance festival Arika, Dramaturg at Performance Space New York, and as Core Organizer of the alternative space CAGE.