Alex Fialho

Alex Fialho is a curator and art historian who will begin a PhD program in the History of Art and African American Studies at Yale in the Fall. Fialho worked for five years as Programs Director of the New York-based arts non-profit Visual AIDS, facilitating projects around the history and immediacy of the ongoing AIDS crisis, while intervening against the widespread whitewashing of HIV/AIDS cultural narratives. As an Oral Historian for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art’s Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project, Fialho conducted extensive oral histories with fifteen cultural producers including Ron Athey, Gregg Bordowitz, Nan Goldin, Lyle Ashton Harris, and Julie Tolentino. Fialho is also a frequent contributor to Artforum, and his writing has been published in exhibition catalogs for the Whitney Biennial 2019 and Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem, among other museum publications.

Bio courtesy of Alex Fialho.