Alexandra Grant

Lives and works in Los Angeles and Berlin

Alexandra Grant explores 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 regularly collaborates with other artists, writers, and philosophers, resulting in creations that embody the synergy between words and visuals.

She has exhibited at international institutions such as the Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA (2023); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA (2016); 20th Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala City, Guatemala (2016); The Broad Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (2014); The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD (2007); and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA (2007). 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.

Selected Works

Alexandra Grant

Matter, Cosmos III, after Julia Fiedorczuk’s “materia,” 2022), 2024
Silk screen, colored pencil, acrylic paint, acrylic ink and sumi ink on paper
390 × 300 cm

Alexandra Grant

The Spark, Cosmos V, (excerpted from Olga Tokarczuk’s, “Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych” 2009), 2024
Silk screen, colored pencil, acrylic paint, acrylic ink and sumi ink on paper
390 × 450 cm

Alexandra Grant

Motion, Cosmos II, (after Krystyna Dąbrowska’s “Ruch,” 2022), 2024
Silk screen, colored pencil, acrylic paint, acrylic ink and sumi ink on paper
390 × 300 cm

Alexandra Grant

I was born to love not to hate (1), 2024
Silk screen, acrylic paint, acrylic ink, on canvas
61,5 × 53,4 cm

Alexandra Grant

Osmose, 2024
Silk screen, acrylic paint, acrylic ink, on canvas
150 × 140 cm

Alexandra Grant

I was born to love not to hate (2), 2024
Silk screen, acrylic paint, acrylic ink, on canvas
61,5 × 53,4 cm

Alexandra Grant

Metropolis, 2021
From the series Antigone 3000
Acrylic paint, sumi ink, acrylic ink, screenprint and colored pencil on paper
249 × 765 cm

Alexandra Grant

Libelle (LA, Berlin, Paris), 2021
Collage, acrylic paint, acrylic ink and colored pencil on paper
211 × 152 cm

Alexandra Grant

Blaue Unendlichkeit (Blue Infinity), 2020
Silk screen, colored pencil, colored marker, acrylic paint, watercolor, acrylic ink and sumi ink on paper
339 × 302 cm

Alexandra Grant

Dämmerung (LA, Berlin, Paris), 2021
Collage, acrylic paint, acrylic ink and colored pencil on paper
211 × 152 cm

Alexandra Grant

Antigone 3000 (black + white Berlin), 2020
76 × 57 cm

Alexandra Grant

Antigone 3000 (black + white Berlin), 2020
76 × 57 cm