Alex Prager

Prager was born in Los Feliz, Los Angeles. At age fourteen, she dropped out of school and traveled to Switzerland on her own, where she worked at a knife store in Lucerne. She returned to Switzerland frequently for longer periods of time and earned her G.E.D at sixteen.{{Cite magazine |last=Witt |first=Emily |date=September 9, 2019 |title=Los Angeles Dreaming |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/09/alex-pragers-la-dreaming |access-date=2023-12-01 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US}}

When she was twenty-one and living in Los Angeles, Prager was inspired to pursue photography after seeing an exhibition of William Eggleston's photographs at the Getty Museum. She cites this as a formative experience: "I felt like I was struck blind by a vision and that was the path I was going to take for the rest of my life." A self-taught artist, Prager avoided formal art education and instead purchased a Nikon N90s camera and printed photographs in a home darkroom.{{cite magazine |date=29 August 2019 |title=Alex Prager's L.A. Dreaming |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/09/alex-pragers-la-dreaming |access-date=2022-11-06 |magazine=The New Yorker}}{{cite journal|last=Davidson|first=Barbara|title=reFramed: In conversation with Alex Prager|journal=Los Angeles Times|date=August 8, 2012}}{{Cite web |last=Bengal |first=Rebecca |date=July 12, 2018 |title=The Threat of Being Seen |url=https://aperture.org/editorial/alex-prager/ |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=Aperture |language=en-US}}

Prager's work is characterized by distinctive mise-en-scène, ambiguous and open-ended narratives, highly staged scenes, unique characters, timeless costumes, and saturated colors.{{Cite book |last=Govan |first=Michael |title=Alex Prager: Silver Lake Drive |publisher=Chronicle Books |year=2018 |isbn=9781452171579 |pages=12–15 |language=en-US |chapter=Alex Prager, Double Take}}{{Cite web |last=Homes |first=A. M. |date=September 2010 |title=UNEASY PIECES |url=https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2010/9/uneasy-pieces |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230816091209/https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2010/9/uneasy-pieces |archive-date=2023-08-16 |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=Vanity Fair {{!}} The Complete Archive |language=en-US}} Her work is notably influenced by golden-era period styles like film noir and Technicolor, mythology, and works by Dutch Renaissance painters.{{Cite journal |last=Zellen |first=Jody |date=2012-09-01 |title=Symptomatic Gaze |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aft.2012.40.2.31 |journal=Afterimage |volume=40 |issue=2 |pages=31–33 |doi=10.1525/aft.2012.40.2.31 |issn=0300-7472|url-access=subscription }}

Prager uses symbolism, humor, allegory, and surreal elements, as well as formal and conceptual techniques, to evoke a psychological response and explore the human experience. She has said that she approaches each project as a reflection of her personal questions and those of greater society.{{Cite web |last=Williams |first=Megan |date=January 21, 2022 |title=Alex Prager's carefully controlled photos visualise two uncontrollable years |url=https://www.creativereview.co.uk/alex-prager-mountain-exhibition/ |access-date=2023-12-01 |website=Creative Review |language=en-UK}}

Employing traditional filmmaking techniques, effects, and large-scale productions, Prager often constructs complex scenes with elaborate characters and saturated, commonplace settings. She uses costuming to define her characters and expand her narratives, pulling from her extensive wardrobe collection.

During the pre-production process, Prager meticulously plans every element to allow for the unknown and chaos to unfold in a controlled environment. All elements of the images are practical and shot in-camera, and she has said "it's important [to her] that you could theoretically touch anything you see in the frame."

Prager's early series, Polyester (2007), The Big Valley (2008), and Week-End (2009), are defined by portraits featuring female protagonists against a Los Angeles backdrop.{{Cite web |last=Lloyd Smith |first=Harriet |date=January 14, 2010 |title=Week-end by Alex Prager, NY |url=https://www.wallpaper.com/art/week-end-by-alex-prager-ny |access-date=2023-12-01 |website=Wallpaper Magazine |language=en-US}}

In 2008, Prager transitioned into filmmaking after her exhibition The Big Valley in London, a defining moment for the artist.{{Cite web |title=Alex Prager {{!}} Widewalls |url=https://www.widewalls.ch/artists/alex-prager |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=www.widewalls.ch |language=en}}

Prager's first short film, "Despair" (2010) starring Bryce Dallas Howard, was included in the New Photography 2010 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, alongside her photographs, which was a breakthrough in her career.{{Cite web |last=O'Neill |first=Claire |date=August 26, 2010 |title=Out With The Old And In With The Old-Inspired: Fresh Photos At MoMA |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2010/08/23/129381210/prager |access-date=2023-11-14 |website=NPR}}{{cite web |title=Bryce Dallas Howard in "Despair" |url=http://www.nowness.com/day/2010/6/10/683/bryce-dallas-howard-in-despair |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100821115347/http://www.nowness.com/day/2010/6/10/683/bryce-dallas-howard-in-despair |archive-date=2010-08-21 |accessdate=June 10, 2010 |publisher=Nowness online}} The Curator of Photography at MoMA, Roxana Marcoci, described Prager's work as "intentionally loaded", saying "it reminds me of silent movies— there is something pregnant, about to happen, a mix of desire and angst."

In 2011, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography for The New York Times Magazine, commissioned Prager to shoot twelve 1-minute films inspired by "cinematic villainy", with some film actors from that year. Prager won a News and Documentary Emmy Award for New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Arts, Lifestyle & Culture for her "Touch of Evil "short films.{{cite web |date=October 2, 2012 |title=We Won an Emmy – for Villainy! |url=http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/we-won-an-emmy-%E2%80%94-for-villainy/?gwh=EDAFD9DF252D7F538C4D886B6E8CCEE3&gwt=pay |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140717230426/http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/we-won-an-emmy-%E2%80%94-for-villainy/?gwh=EDAFD9DF252D7F538C4D886B6E8CCEE3&gwt=pay |archive-date=July 17, 2014 |accessdate=July 16, 2014 |work=The New York Times}}

With her 2012 series of diptychs, Compulsion, Prager addressed themes of disaster, observation, compulsive spectatorship, and how the meanings of images are derived from a multiplicity of gazes.{{cite web |date=21 April 2012 |title=Stan Douglas: Midcentury Studio; Alex Prager: Compulsion – review |url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/apr/22/stan-douglas-alex-prager-review |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=The Guardian}}{{Cite web |last=Swanson |first=Carl |date=2012-03-30 |title=Photographer Alex Prager's Upcoming Exhibition |url=https://nymag.com/arts/art/reviews/alex-prager-2012-4/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240103014056/https://nymag.com/arts/art/reviews/alex-prager-2012-4/ |archive-date=2024-01-03 |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=New York Magazine |language=en}} Her short film "La Petite Mort," starring French actress Judith Godreche with narration from Gary Oldman, was shown alongside the body of work.{{Cite book |last=Mansfield |first=Michael |title=Alex Prager: Silver Lake Drive |publisher=Chronicle Books |year=2018 |isbn=9781452171579 |pages=146–157 |language=en |chapter=Pretend to Pretend in the Art of Appearances}} The film was a "contemplation on death" and "a way for [her] to deal with the hopelessness [she] was feeling about the world. Creating a parallel universe where tragedies happen but with a sense of lightness as well."{{Cite web |title=Alex Prager: La Petite Mort |url=https://www.nowness.com/story/alex-prager-la-petite-mort |website=www.nowness.com}}

Prager's series, Face in the Crowd, debuted at Washington D.C.'s Corcoran Gallery of Art in 2013, marking her first solo museum exhibition in the U.S.{{Cite news |last=Boyle |first=Katherine |date=November 22, 2013 |title=At Corcoran, Alex Prager's color photographs of crowds depict detachment in togetherness |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/at-corcoran-alex-pragers-color-photographs-of-crowds-depict-detachment-in-togetherness/2013/11/22/495a764e-5143-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html |access-date=2023-12-01 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}} The series of highly staged images of crowds in various familiar settings indicated a distinctive shift in the artist's practice.{{Cite book |last=Grafik |first=Claire |title=Alex Prager: Silver Lake Drive |publisher=Chronicle Books |year=2018 |isbn=978-0500544976 |pages=115–120 |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Zafiris |first=Alex |date=2014-01-10 |title=For Alex Prager, It's Lonely in a Crowd |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/10/on-view-for-alex-prager-its-lonely-in-a-crowd/ |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=T Magazine |language=en-US}} The new body of work connected familiar themes in her artwork, but also explored the contemporary condition of the individual and the crowd and human connection versus isolation.{{Cite web |last=Hall |first=Emily |date=2014-03-01 |title=Alex Prager |url=https://www.artforum.com/events/alex-prager-203883/ |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=Artforum |language=en-US}} The exhibition included photographic work and a three-channel installation of the film (2013), featuring Elizabeth Banks.

She was commissioned by the Paris Opera in 2015 to create a film for 3e Scène, which also coincided with a series of photographs from the project. The film, "La Grande Sortie" portrays the perspectives of performer and audience and considers the underlying tension in this relationship. It features Émilie Cozette and Karl Paquette dancing to an adapted score by Nigel Godrich.{{Cite news |last=Wilkinson |first=Isabel |date=September 8, 2016 |title=An Artist's Haunting Fantasy of the Paris Opera Ballet |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/08/t-magazine/art/alex-prager-grande-sortie.html |newspaper=The New York Times Style Magazine |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |last=Stern |first=Melissa |date=2016-10-13 |title=Seeing a Horror Movie Through the Reactions of Its Spectators |url=http://hyperallergic.com/329623/seeing-horror-movie-reactions-spectators/ |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=Hyperallergic |language=en-US}}{{Cite magazine |date=2015-09-22 |title=How Stage Fright Separates the Professional Ballerinas from the Amateurs |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/09/la-grande-sortie-paris-opera-ballet |access-date=2024-01-03 |magazine=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}}

In 2018, Nathalie Herschdorfer, Director of Photo Elysée, curated a major exhibition marking the first mid-career survey of Prager's work. The exhibition traveled internationally to institutions including The Photographers' Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts Le Locle, Foam Fotografiemuseum, Fotografiska, Stockholm, among others.{{Cite news |last1=O'Hagan |first1=Sean |date=2018-06-14 |title=Tish Murtha / Alex Prager review – a culture shock of grit and glamour |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jun/14/tish-murtha-alex-prager-review-photographers-gallery |access-date=2024-01-03 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |last=Fletcher |first=Gem |date=2018-06-11 |title=Exploring Hollywood's Sinister Underbelly, with Artist Alex Prager |url=https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/10921/exploring-hollywoods-sinister-underbelly-with-artist-alex-prager |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=AnOther |language=en}}

In 2019, Prager completed and exhibited her most autobiographical body of work to date, which included photographs and a new short film, "Play the Wind" with Dimitri Chamblas and Riley Keough. The work is an homage to and reflection on the city of Los Angeles, Prager's hometown and a frequent source of inspiration throughout her career.{{Cite web |last=Williams |first=Megan |date=2019-09-27 |title=Alex Prager reflects on motherhood and Los Angeles in new show |url=https://www.creativereview.co.uk/alex-prager-play-the-wind/ |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=Creative Review |language=en-UK}}{{Cite web |last=Hagberg |first=Eva |date=2019-09-09 |title=Alex Prager takes us on a dystopian ride through her native Los Angeles |url=https://www.wallpaper.com/art/alex-prager-play-the-wind-lehmann-maupinn-new-york |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=wallpaper.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Rosen |first=Miss |date=2019-09-10 |title=Alex Prager's New Exhibition is a Dystopian Love Letter to Los Angeles |url=https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/11907/alex-prager-play-the-wind-is-a-dystopian-love-letter-to-los-angeles |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=AnOther |language=en}}

Prager is represented by the gallery Lehmann Maupin. Prager's work has been exhibited in numerous museum exhibitions globally, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia;{{Cite news |last=Spring |first=Alexandra |date=November 20, 2014 |title=Alex Prager's Hollywood: glamour, menace and heroines dying horrible deaths |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/nov/21/alex-pragers-hollywood-glamour-menace-and-heroines-dying-horrible-deaths |access-date=2023-12-01 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden;{{Cite web |date=November 22, 2019 |title=5 to See: This Weekend |url=https://aestheticamagazine.com/5-to-see-this-weekend-23-24-november/ |access-date=2023-12-01 |website=Aesthetica Magazine |language=en-GB}} and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA,{{Cite news |last=Vankin |first=Deborah |date=November 21, 2020 |title=Tipsy co-workers, ugly sweaters: The all-too-real office holiday party at LACMA |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-11-21/alex-prager-work-holiday-parties-lacma |work=The Los Angeles Times}} among others.

Prager returned to portraiture in 2021 with Part One: The Mountain. Inspired to examine the complicated emotional effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Prager created a more simple and intimate series of Americana portraits capturing her fictional subjects in the midst of intense inner turmoil.{{Cite web |last=Solomon |first=Tessa |date=2022-01-21 |title=In a New Portrait Series, Alex Prager Takes Her Camera to the Mountains |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/alex-prager-santa-monica-mountains-photographs-interview-1234616341/ |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=ARTnews.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Dinsdale |first=Emily |date=2022-01-25 |title=Alex Prager's cinematic photos of a post-pandemic world |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/55290/1/alex-prager-photographer-interview-part-one-mountain-exhibition-london |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=Dazed |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Stone |first=Mee-Lai |date=2022-01-26 |title=Falling for it: Alex Prager's flights of fancy – in pictures |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/jan/26/falling-for-it-alex-pragers-flights-of-fancy-in-pictures |access-date=2024-01-03 |work=the Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

Continuing to explore the anxiety and responses of living through uncertain times, Prager followed with a new short film starring Katherine Waterson and an accompanying series of images for Part Two: Run in 2022. The film, titled "Run" (2022), features the unfolding chaos of gigantic silver ball barreling through a small town to a soundtrack by Ellen Reid and Philip Glass.{{Cite web |last=Williams |first=Megan |date=2023-01-26 |title=Photographer Alex Prager has one word: run! |url=https://www.creativereview.co.uk/alex-prager-run-exhibition/ |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=Creative Review |language=en-UK}}{{Cite web |last=Frailey |first=Stephen |date=2023-05-01 |title=Alex Prager |url=https://www.artforum.com/events/alex-prager-2-251234/ |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=Artforum |language=en-US}}

In 2024, Prager debuted Western Mechanics, her first exhibition with Lehmann Maupin in Seoul.{{Cite web |last=Hamelo|first=Gameli|date=2024-06-03 |title='Humanity is always the centre of my practice': Alex Prager's new work blurs the line between reality and fiction |url=https://www.wallpaper.com/art/alex-prager-interview-western-mechanics-seoul |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=Wallpaper|language=en}} The new body of photographic work circumvented linear narrative and instead focused on the presentation of emotionally charged vignettes.{{Cite web |title=Family Style - How the West Was Won |url=https://www.family.style/art/alex-prager-lehmann-maupin-seoul-western-mechanics |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=www.family.style |language=en}}

In 2010, Alex Prager started Big Valley Pictures to produce independent films.

Prager's films are often psychological thrillers touching on horror and characterized by depictions of isolation, fear, artifice, and the need for connection. Humor, entwined with the unsettling elements, plays an important role in her work.

She is noted for her regular collaborations with cinematographer Matthew Libatique and has collaborated with actors Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, Elizabeth Banks, Gary Oldman, Riley Keough, Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Glenn Close, Rooney Mara, and Viola Davis, among others.

Prager's short film Face in the Crowd (2013) screened at the New Directors/New Films festival at Lincoln Center and MoMA in 2014.{{Cite web |last=Indiewire |date=2014-02-20 |title=New Directors/New Films Sets 2014 Lineup, Including 'A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night,' 'The Babadook' and 'Obvious Child' |url=https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/new-directorsnew-films-sets-2014-lineup-including-a-girl-walks-home-alone-at-night-the-babadook-and-obvious-child-29762/ |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=IndieWire |language=en-US}} Her most recent short film, "Run" (2022), premiered at the Santa Barbara Film Festival and was nominated for the 2023 SXSW Grand Jury Award.{{Cite web |last=Meares |first=Hadley |date=2023-03-14 |title=Alex Prager on Her SXSW Debut and Prepping Her First Feature Film with Elizabeth Banks' Brownstone Productions |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/alex-prager-sxsw-debut-prepping-first-feature-film-1235351178/ |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Feinberg |first=Scott |date=2023-01-18 |title=Santa Barbara Film Fest: Lineup Revealed for 38th Edition |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/santa-barbara-film-fest-lineup-2023-1235302754/ |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}} In 2023, she was named one of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film" by Filmmaker Magazine.{{Cite web |title=25 New Faces of Independent Film 2023 {{!}} Filmmaker Magazine |url=https://filmmakermagazine.com/series/25-new-faces-of-film-2023/ |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=Filmmaker Magazine {{!}} Publication with a focus on independent film, offering articles, links, and resources. |language=en-US}}

Prager just completed her debut feature film, DreamQuil, described as a cautionary tale about identity, automation, and humanity set in the near distant future. The film stars Elizabeth Banks and John C. Reilly and is set to be released in 2025 by Republic Pictures.{{Cite web |last=Wiseman |first=Andreas |date=2023-05-11 |title=Elizabeth Banks & John C. Reilly To Lead Timely AI Thriller 'Dreamquil'; HanWay, UTA & CAA Launch Sales For Cannes |url=https://deadline.com/2023/05/elizabeth-banks-john-c-reilly-dreamquil-ai-cannes-market-1235363343/ |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Wiseman |first=Andreas |date=2024-05-07 |title=Elizabeth Banks & John C. Reilly Thriller 'DreamQuil' Pre-Sells To Paramount's Republic Pictures; HanWay To Continue Sales In Cannes With Filming Underway |url=https://deadline.com/2024/05/elizabeth-banks-john-creilly-ai-movie-dreamquil-us-deal-republic-pictures-1235907250/ |access-date=2024-08-15 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}

Prager has been commissioned to shoot features and campaigns by luxury brands and prominent publications such as Vogue, New York Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, W Magazine, Garage, Bottega Veneta, Dior, Hermés, Tiffany, and Lavazza.

She has also directed commercials for several prominent international brands including Apple, Hermés, Miller, Anheuser-Busch, Vimeo, and most recently, Cartier, featuring Elle Fanning, in 2023.{{Cite web |last=Jameson |first=Daniel |date=2023-06-28 |title=Cartier Digs Into Its Archives to Reimagine a Coveted Classic Collection With an Unlikely Coffee Bean Inspiration |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/cartier-grain-de-cafe-2326796 |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=Artnet News |language=en-US}}

Prager's work is often discussed in connection to Los Angeles. Emily Witt, a journalist and staff writer for The New Yorker, wrote "Prager does for photography what James Ellroy did for crime fiction, inventing a neo-noir L.A. vernacular that creates a feeling of the past without the limitations of historical accuracy."

Michael Govan, the director of Los Angeles County Museum of Art has said that

Prager's photographic and filmic compositions, like Eggleston's photographs, Alfred Hitchcock's films, and Edward Hopper's paintings, reveal the extraordinary lurking within the ordinary. Wreaking havoc with our involuntary voyeurism and our tendency to leap to conclusions about people's characters based on the merest details of their appearances, Prager cues our own fantasies by representing her own.

Prager belongs to a generation of contemporary artists who fully own their media. She wields a camera and a director's chair with equal strength, and creates both motion pictures and photographs in full view of their commercial influences and the complex politics of art-house avant-garde cinema.

• Polyester, Alex Prager Studio. 2007. {{ASIN|B001IYHQAE}}.
• The Big Valley / Week-end, M+B and Yancey Richardson Gallery. 2010. {{ISBN|0615339182}}.
• Compulsion, Michael Hoppen Gallery. 2012. {{ISBN|0615613055}}.
• Face in the Crowd, Corcoran. 2013. {{ISBN|0615901743}}.
• La Grande Sortie, Lehmann Maupin. 2016. {{ISBN|9780692763025}}.
• Alex Prager: Silver Lake Drive, Thames & Hudson. 2018. {{ISBN|0500544972}}.
• Play the Wind Catalog, Lehmann Maupin & Alex Prager Studio. 2019.
• Farewell, Work Holiday Parties Brochure, Los Angeles County Museum of Art & Alex Prager Studio. 2020.
• Alex Prager 2022 Catalog, Alex Prager Studio. 2022. {{ISBN|9798218106584}}.

• Despair (2010)
• Touch of Evil (2011){{cite news|title=Alex Prager directs Touch of Evil |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/12/06/magazine/13villains.html?_r=0|work=The New York Times Magazine |accessdate=April 22, 2015}}
• La Petite Mort (2012)
• Sunday (2012) – for W Magazine
• Face in the Crowd (2013)
• La Grande Sortie (2015)
• Uncanny Valley (2018){{cite web |title=Cate Blanchett Stars in "Uncanny Valley" By Alex Prager |url=https://video.wmagazine.com/watch/cate-blanchett-stars-in-uncanny-valley-by-alex-prager |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106101814/https://video.wmagazine.com/watch/cate-blanchett-stars-in-uncanny-valley-by-alex-prager |url-status=dead |archive-date=6 November 2018 |website=W |accessdate=6 November 2018}}
• Play the Wind (2019){{cite web|first1=Eva|last1=Hagberg|access-date=2022-11-06|title=Alex Prager takes us on a dystopian ride through her native Los Angeles|url=https://www.wallpaper.com/art/alex-prager-play-the-wind-lehmann-maupinn-new-york|date=9 September 2019|website=wallpaper.com}}
• Part One: The Mountain Interviews (2021)
• Run (2022)

• Polyester, [http://www.robertbermangallery.com/ Robert Berman Gallery], Los Angeles, 2007{{Cite web |url=http://www.robertbermangallery.com/exhibitions/alex-prager |title=Alex Prager POLYESTER |website=robertbermangallery.com |date=2007 |access-date=2023-07-29}}
• The Big Valley, [https://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/ Michael Hoppen Gallery], London, 2008;{{Cite web |url=https://www.mutualart.com/Article/Alex-Prager--The-Big-Valley-at-Michael-H/0DA49963BA55BDBE |title=Alex Prager: The Big Valley at Michael Hoppen Gallery, London |website=mutualart.com |date=2008-04-21 |access-date=2023-07-29}} Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York City, 2009{{Cite web |url=https://www.yanceyrichardson.com/exhibitions/alex-prager4 |title=Alex Prager – The Big Valley |website=yanceyrichardson.com |date=2009 |access-date=2023-07-29}}
• Week-end, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York City, 2010{{Cite web |url=https://www.yanceyrichardson.com/exhibitions/alex-prager3 |title=Alex Prager – Week-End |website=yanceyrichardson.com |date=2010 |access-date=2023-07-29}}
• Compulsion, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, 2012{{cite news|url=http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/artists/alex-prager#12|title=Alex Prager|work=www.lehmannmaupin.com|date=November 30, 2013|accessdate=November 30, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131118195706/http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/artists/alex-prager#12|archive-date=2013-11-18|url-status=live}}
• Mise-en-scène, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2013{{cite news|url=http://www.scadmoa.org/art/exhibitions/2013/alex-prager-exhibition-mise-en-scene|title=Exhibition: Alex Prager, Mise-en-scène|work=Savannah College of Art and Design|date=July 27, 2013|accessdate=July 27, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130817132355/http://www.scadmoa.org/art/exhibitions/2013/alex-prager-exhibition-mise-en-scene|archive-date=2013-08-17|url-status=live}}
• Face in the Crowd, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2013;{{cite magazine|url=http://lightbox.time.com/2013/11/19/staging-reality-alex-pragers-timeless-faces-in-the-crowd/#1|title=Staging Reality: Alex Prager's Timeless Faces in the Crowd|magazine=Time |date=November 19, 2013|accessdate=November 30, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131129165813/http://lightbox.time.com/2013/11/19/staging-reality-alex-pragers-timeless-faces-in-the-crowd/#1|archive-date=2013-11-29|url-status=dead}} The Arts Club, London, 2014;{{cite web|url=https://www.theartsclub.co.uk/art/exhibition-programme/alexprager|title=The Arts Club - Exhibitioninner|website=www.theartsclub.co.uk|access-date=2018-10-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004041223/http://www.theartsclub.co.uk/art/exhibition-programme/alexprager|archive-date=2015-10-04|url-status=live}} [https://www.mbart.com/ M+B Gallery], Los Angeles, 2014;{{cite web | url=https://www.mbart.com/exhibitions/108-alex-prager-face-in-the-crowd/overview/ |title=Alex Prager - Overview |website=mbart.com |access-date=2023-07-29}} Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York City, 2014;{{Cite web |title=Face in the Crowd - Alex Prager - Exhibitions - Lehmann Maupin |url=https://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/alex-prager/press-release |website=www.lehmannmaupin.com}} Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, 2015{{cite web | url=https://www.slam.org/exhibitions/new-media-series-alex-prager-face-in-the-crowd/ |title=Alex Prager: Face in the Crowd |website=slam.org |date=2015 |access-date=2023-07-29}}
• Alex Prager, The National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, 2014{{cite web|access-date=2022-11-06|title=Alex Prager's Hollywood: glamour, menace and heroines dying horrible deaths|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/nov/21/alex-pragers-hollywood-glamour-menace-and-heroines-dying-horrible-deaths|date=20 November 2014|website=The Guardian}}
• Alex Prager, Istanbul '74, Istanbul, 2015{{Cite web |url=http://istanbul74.com/gallery/istanbul74-presents-alex-prager/ |title=Istanbul '74 {{pipe}} Arts & Culture Platform |access-date=2015-11-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910121147/http://istanbul74.com/gallery/istanbul74-presents-alex-prager/ |archive-date=2015-09-10 |url-status=dead }}
• La Grande Sortie, Lehmann Maupin, New York City, 2016{{cite web | url=https://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/alex-prager4 |title=Alex Prager – La Grande Sortie |website=lehmannmaupin.com |date=2016 |access-date=2023-07-29}}
• Alex Prager: Silver Lake Drive, The Photographers' Gallery, London, 2018;{{cite web|access-date=2022-11-06|title=Tish Murtha/Alex Prager review – a Hitchcockian shock of grit and glitz|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jun/14/tish-murtha-alex-prager-review-photographers-gallery|date=14 June 2018|website=The Guardian}} Museum of Fine Arts Le Locle, Le Locle, Switzerland, 2018;{{cite web |url=http://www.mbal.ch/en/exposition/alex-prager-2/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106101044/http://www.mbal.ch/en/exposition/alex-prager-2/ |title=MBAL - Alex Prager |url-status=dead |archive-date=6 November 2018 |website=Musée des beaux-arts du Locle |accessdate=6 November 2018}} Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, 2019;{{Cite web|url=https://www.foam.org/museum/programme/alex-prager|title=Alex Prager - Silver Lake Drive {{pipe}} Past exhibition|website=Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam}} [https://fondazionesozzani.org/it/ Fondazione Sozzani], Milan, 2019{{Cite web|url=https://fondazionesozzani.org/exhibitions/2019/09/silver-lake-drive/ |title=Alex Prager Silver Lake Drive |website=fondazionesozzani.org |access-date=2023-07-29}}
• Welcome Home, Fotografiska, Stockholm, 2019;{{Cite web|url=https://www.fotografiska.com/sto/utstallningar/|title=Våra utställningar - upplev fotokonst i världsklass|website=Fotografiska Stockholm}} Fotografiska, Tallinn, Estonia, 2020{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}
• Play the Wind, Lehmann Maupin, New York City, 2019{{cite web|url=https://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/alex-prager6 |title=Alex Prager – Play the Wind |website=lehmannmaupin.com |date=2019 |access-date=2023-07-29}}
• Alex Prager: Farewell, Work Holiday Parties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2020{{cite web|access-date=2022-11-08|title=Tipsy co-workers, ugly sweaters: The all-too-real office holiday party at LACMA|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-11-21/alex-prager-work-holiday-parties-lacma|date=21 November 2020|website=Los Angeles Times}}{{cite web|first1=Elisa Wouk|last1=Almino|access-date=2022-11-08|title=A Goodbye to the Uncomfortable Holiday Work Party|url=http://hyperallergic.com/606251/alex-prager-farewell-work-holiday-parties-lacma/|date=9 December 2020|website=Hyperallergic}}
• Part One: The Mountain, Lehmann Maupin, London, 2022{{cite web|url=https://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/alex-prager2 |title=Alex Prager – Part One: The Mountain |website=lehmannmaupin.com |date=2022 |access-date=2023-07-29}}
• Alex Prager: Big West, [https://www.lottemuseum.com/Mobile/en Lotte Museum of Art], Seoul, 2022{{cite web|url=https://www.prestigeonline.com/hk/lifestyle/art-plus-design/artist-photographer-alex-prager-on-solo-exhibition-at-seouls-lotte-museum-of-art/ |title=Artist Photographer Alex Prager on Solo Exhibition at Seoul's Lotte Museum of Art |website=prestigeonline.com |date=2022-03-22 |access-date=2023-07-29}}
• Part Two: Run, Lehmann Maupin, Palm Beach, 2022; Lehmann Maupin, New York City, 2023{{cite web |date=2023 |title=Alex Prager – Part Two: Run |url=https://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/alex-prager8 |access-date=2023-07-29 |website=lehmannmaupin.com}}
• Western Mechanics, Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, 2024{{Cite web |title=Alex Prager - Western Mechanics - Exhibitions - Lehmann Maupin |url=https://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/alex-prager9 |access-date=2024-08-14 |website=www.lehmannmaupin.com |language=en}}
• U.S. Department of State, Art in Embassies Program, New Delhi, India, 2024{{Cite web |title=NEW DELHI 2024 – U.S. Department of State |url=https://art.state.gov/portfolio/new_delhi_2024/ |access-date=2024-08-14 |language=en-US}}

• New Photography 2010, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010{{cite web |title=New Photography 2010 Alex Prager |url=http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/newphotography/alex-prager/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724153031/http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/newphotography/alex-prager/ |archive-date=2014-07-24 |accessdate=July 16, 2014 |publisher=Museum of Modern Art}}
• No Fashion, Please: Photography Between Gender and Lifestyle, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2011{{cite web|url=https://kunsthallewien.at/en/exhibition/no-fashion-please/ |title=No fashion, please! |publisher=Kunsthalle Wien |access-date=2023-07-29}}
• Another Story: Photography from the Moderna Museet Collection, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2011{{cite web|url=https://www.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/en/exhibitions/another-story/ |title=Another story |publisher=Moderna Museet i Stockholm |access-date=2023-07-29}}
• Portrait of a Generation, [http://thehole.com/ The Hole], New York City, 2012{{cite web|url=http://thehole.com/exhibitions/portrait-of-a-generation |title=The Hole Contemporary art gallery New York and Los Angeles }}
• At the Window: The Photographer's View, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2013{{cite web|url=https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/exhibition/103PQX |title=At the Window: The Photographer's View (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection) }}
• The Noir Effect, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, 2014{{cite web|url=http://www.skirball.org/about/press/2014/light-noir-exiles-and-emigres-hollywood-1933-1950|title=Skirball Cultural Center presents Light & Noir: Exiles and Émigrés in Hollywood, 1933–1950|date=4 February 2015|access-date=2018-10-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424135314/http://www.skirball.org/about/press/2014/light-noir-exiles-and-emigres-hollywood-1933-1950|archive-date=2016-04-24|url-status=live}}
• Open Rhapsody: A Journey Into Photography and Video Collections, [https://www.archdaily.com/91909/beirut-exhibition-center-l-e-ft Beirut Exhibition Center], Beirut, 2015{{cite web|url=https://www.beirut.com/en/directory/open-rhapsody-a-journey-into-photography-and-video-collections |title=Open Rhapsody A Journey Into Photography And Video Collections |website=archdaily.com |date=2015 |access-date=2023-07-29}}
• Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Photography, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, 2016{{cite web|url=https://www.mcnayart.org/press/telling-tales-contemporary-narrative-photography/ |title=Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Photography |date=19 September 2016 }}
• In Production: Art and the Studio System, Yuz Museum Shanghai, Shanghai, 2019{{cite web|url=http://www.yuzmshanghai.org/production-art-studio-system/?lang=en | title=In Production: Art and the Studio System }}
• Flora / Fauna, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York City, 2019{{cite web|url=http://www.bsandj.com/exhibitions/justin-adian-ana-bidart-marti-cormand-charles-hascoet-ted-lawson-stefana-mcclure-sean-micka-emily-mullin-christina-nicodema-alex-prager-gabriel-rico-paul-anthony-smith-devin-troy-strother |title=Justin Adian, Ana Bidart, Martí Cormand, Charles Hascoët, Ted Lawson, Stefana McClure, Sean Micka, Emily Mullin, Christina Nicodema, Alex Prager, Gabriel Rico, Paul Anthony Smith, Devin Troy Strother - Exhibitions - Bienvenu Steinberg & J }}
• Terminal, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, NZ, 2020{{cite web|url=https://citygallery.org.nz/exhibitions/terminal/ |title=Terminal - }}
• Oil. Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, 2021{{cite web|url=https://www.kunstmuseum.de/en/exhibition/oil-beauty-and-horror-in-the-petrol-age/ |title=Oil – Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age |publisher=Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg |access-date=2023-07-29}}
• Still Present!, 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, 2022
• Freedom of Movement: Contemporary Art and Design from the NGV Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, 2022{{Cite web |title=Freedom of Movement: Contemporary Art and Design from the NGV Collection {{!}} NGV |url=https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/freedom-of-movement/ |access-date=2024-01-10 |website=www.ngv.vic.gov.au |language=en-AU}}   
• Killing TV, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, China, 2023{{Cite web |title=Killing TV {{!}} Tai Kwun |url=https://www.taikwun.hk/en/programme/detail/killing-tv/1265 |access-date=2024-01-10 |website=www.taikwun.hk |language=en}}
• Photography: Real and Imagined, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia{{Cite web |title=Photography: Real and Imagined {{!}} NGV |url=https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/photography-real-imagined/ |access-date=2024-01-10 |website=www.ngv.vic.gov.au |language=en-AU}}
• Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Photography Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum South Kensington, London, United Kingdom, 2024{{Cite web |title=About the Fragile Beauty exhibition · V&A |url=https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/about-the-fragile-beauty-exhibition |access-date=2024-08-14 |website=Victoria and Albert Museum |language=en}}

• 2006: London Photographic Award {{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
• 2009: The Vevey International Photography Award{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
• 2012: News and Documentary Emmy Award for New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Arts, Lifestyle & Culture for The New York Times-commissioned piece Touch of Evil, starring Jessica Chastain, George Clooney, Glenn Close, Kirsten Dunst, Rooney Mara, Brad Pitt, and others
• 2012: Foam Paul Huf Award, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam{{cite web|accessdate=2020-05-14|title=Alex Prager - Silver Lake Drive|url=https://www.foam.org/nl/museum/programma/alex-prager|website=Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam}}{{cite web|accessdate=2020-05-14|title=Alex Prager wins Foam Paul Huf Award 2012|url=http://www.gupmagazine.com/articles/alex-prager-wins-foam-paul-huf-award-2012|website=GUP Magazine}}

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