Alanna Heiss

Alanna Heiss is the Director of AIR, Art International Radio. Operating online at www.ARTonAIR.org, AIR is an Internet radio station, free online audio archive for cultural programming, and arts center for the production of radio and audio art projects, music recording and project development across a range of artistic disciplines. Heiss was Founder and Director of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center from 1976 to 2008. She is one of the originators of the alternative space movement, and has organized over 700 exhibitions at P.S.1 and elsewhere, including the inaugural exhibition at P.S.1, Rooms (1976); New York, New Wave (1981); Stalin's Choice: Soviet Socialist Realism, 1932-1956 (1993); Greater New York (2000 and 2005, selecting curator), and Arctic Hysteria (2008), in addition to numerous solo shows of renowned and emerging artists alike. Heiss is once again curating exhibitions and performances at the Clocktower Gallery, home to Art International Radio.