1. Alexa Meade was born on 1986 and is an American installation artist best known for her portraits painted directly onto the human body and inanimate objects in a way that collapses depth and makes her models appear two-dimensional when photographed.
Alexa Meade graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 2009, with a bachelor's degree in political science.
Alexa Meade decided to explore space and light through the idea of putting black paint on the ground where the shadows were cast.
Alexa Meade later expanded the concept by making a grayscale "mapping of light" with paint on the human body.
Alexa Meade has credited her lack of formal art training with allowing her to come up with unique ideas of surfaces she could paint on, since she didn't think of painting as something that necessarily had to be done on a canvas.
Alexa Meade first gained public recognition in March 2010, when her living paintings went viral following a short post about her work on Jason Kottke's blog kottke.
Alexa Meade's website went from having negligible views to an estimated 30,000-page views the next day.
Alexa Meade has named installation artist Robert Irwin as an inspiration, citing his biography, Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, as an influence on how she thinks about the perception of space.
Color of Reality In 2016, Alexa Meade painted dancers Jon Boogz and Lil Buck for the short film Color of Reality produced by Animi Design.
In 2018, Alexa Meade painted on singer Ariana Grande for the music video of her 2018 single "God Is a Woman".
In 2015, Alexa Meade was invited to be artist in residence at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario.
Alexa Meade was artist in residence at Google where she collaborated on an installation with engineers developing Light Field technology.
In 2023, Alexa Meade was selected as the artist in residence at 3 World Trade Center.
Alexa Meade's art is still a subject of research and terminology development.
In 2010, Alexa Meade's work was exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery in London.
In 2012, Alexa Meade created a live performance at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC for the exhibit Camera-Ready Color.
In 2015, Alexa Meade created several artworks in Paris, France, including exhibitions at the Grand Palais and the Pinacotheque de Paris, and a live performance at David Lynch's nightclub Silencio.
In 2016 at the Q3 Symposium and Lecture on Peace and Security in a Quantum Age held in Sydney, Australia, Alexa Meade joined quantum physicists and scholars to debate the political, ethical and philosophical implications of quantum computing.
Also in 2016, Alexa Meade was invited to the White House under President Barack Obama for the South by South Lawn event showcasing creators and innovators.
In 2017, Alexa Meade went on tour with Refinery29's installation exhibit 29Rooms.
In 2017, Alexa Meade was honored by the Tribeca Film Festival with the Disruptive Innovation Award, an honor celebrating those who "inspire and empower people towards innovative thinking and creative activism".
Alexa Meade's exhibition Immersed in Wonderland in Beverly Hills was attended by 40,000 visitors in 2018.
Alexa Meade lectured at Princeton University in the Computer Science Department on the subject "Painting in More Dimensions".