Alexandra Grant
BIO
Alexandra Grant is a Los Angeles-based artist who through an exploration of
the use of text and language in various media—painting, drawing, sculpture,
film, and photography—probes ideas of translation, identity, dis/location, and
social responsibility. Grant frequently collaborates with other artists, writers,
and philosophers, often going so far as to have specific texts written as the
impetus to her intricate paintings and sculptures. She has collaborated with
author Michael Joyce, actor Keanu Reeves, artist Channing Hansen, and the
philosopher Hélène Cixous, amongst others. Having spent significant
portions of her childhood and adolescence living in Mexico, France, and
Spain, some of the basic questions that fuel her practice are: How do the
languages we speak and the images we see form how we think and
exchange ideas? How can artists and writers work to create and influence
culture in an increasingly technology-driven world?
Grant has exhibited widely at galleries including Lowell Ryan Projects, Los
Angeles; Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles; Night Gallery, Los Angeles;
Galerie Lelong, New York City; Galerie Gradiva, Paris; and Harris Lieberman
Gallery, New York City; and at institutions such as Museum of Contemporary
Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA; The Broad Museum at Michigan State
University, East Lansing, MI; The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD;
and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA. Her work
has been written about in the Los Angeles Times, White Hot Magazine,
Frieze, Art in America, and Artforum amongst others. Awards include
the COLA Individual Artist Fellowship and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Grant. Her works are included in museum collections such as the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,
CA; the Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA; and the Blanton
Museum of Art, Austin, TX.
Grant is the creator of the grantLOVE project, which has raised funds for
arts-based non-profits including; Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA), Project Angel
Food, Art of Elysium, 18th Street Arts Center, and LAXART. In 2017, Grant
cofounded X Artists’ Books, a publishing house for artist-centered books.
Publications have included collaborations with Diane di Prima, George
Herms, Eve Wood, Etel Adnan and Lynn Marie Kirby among others, and are
available online and in bookstores throughout Los Angeles, New York, and
Paris.