PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Talking Trash: Cultural Uses of Waste (Vanderbilt University Press, 2019)
Photo Viz (Gestalten, 2016)
Unexpected Art (Chronicle Books, 2015)
Art & Ecology Now (Thames & Hudson, 2014)
Land Art (Palette, 2013)
SELECTED PRESS
2024 - Museumweek, “Transforming Chaos”
2024 - Harpar’s Bazaar Turkey, “Artistic Portraits”
2023 - Newsweek, “Climate Change Through Art’s Lens“
2023 - Academia, The Polish Academy of Sciences, “Pollution”
2019 - Delano, “From plastic flotsam to art installation”
2018 - The Paris Review, “Land Forms”
2018 - Flinn Gallery, “Hazardous Beauty”
2016 - National Geographic, “This Is Not A Mirage: Colorful Art Installations That Delight, Then Horrify”
2016 - Time Magazine, “13 Artists Who Turned Ocean Trash Into Amazing Art”
2015 - Wired, “Mexico’s Ugly Ocean Trash Transformed Into Treasure”
2015 - Colossal, “Washed Up: Alejandro Duran’s Site-Specific Found Plastic and Trash Installations”
2015 - Gizmodo, “Artist’s Trash Exhibitions Depict A Planet Colonized By Plastic”
2015 - Huffington Post, “Temporary Trash Artworks Put Our Oceans Waste In Perspective”
2015 - ABC News, “Alejandro Duran’s Transforming A Trashed Landscape Series”
2013 - El Diario, “Artista de Brooklyn Transforma Basura En Arte”
2012 - Die Zeit, “Alles Plastik, Oder Was?”
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2026 - The History of Art: A Global View, Thames & Hudson, United Kingdom (upcoming)
2023 - Transforming Chaos: Dialogue With Environmental Artist Alejandro Duran, Museum Week, USA
2023 - The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg, Penguin Press, United Kingdom
2023 - Academia: Pollution, The Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
2019 - Talking Trash: Cultural Uses of Waste, Vanderbilt University Press, USA
2017 - Space, teNeues, Germany
2016 - Photo Viz, Gestalten, Berlin, Germany
2015 - Unexpected Art, Chronicle Books, USA
2014 - Art & Ecology Now, Thames & Hudson, United Kingdom
2013 - Land Art, Palette Editions, France