Alexandra Grant was born on April 4,1973 and is an American visual artist who examines language and written texts through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and other media.
19 Facts About Alexandra Grant
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Alexandra Grant uses language and exchanges with writers as a source for much of that work.
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Alexandra Grant's father was a Scottish geology professor who had moved to Ohio's Oberlin College in 1969.
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Alexandra Grant's mother was an American political science professor, foreign-service diplomat, and educational administrator based in Africa and the Middle East.
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When she was 11 years old, Alexandra Grant attended a boarding school, the Thomas Jefferson School, in St Louis, Missouri for a year.
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In 1990, Alexandra Grant graduated High School from Phillips Exeter Academy, an exclusive private boarding school in Exeter, New Hampshire.
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In 1995, Alexandra Grant graduated from Swarthmore College with a BA in history and studio art.
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In 2000, Alexandra Grant graduated from San Francisco's California College of the Arts with an MFA in drawing and painting.
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In 2007, Alexandra Grant had her first solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, curated by Alma Ruiz.
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Alexandra Grant's artworks joined a multi-artist show in Tel Aviv in 2008, titled "From and About Place: Art from Los Angeles".
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Alexandra Grant's work has been described as a "radical collaboration", that is, work made in collaboration with the text and work of other writers and artists, and is often participatory and ongoing.
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In 2013, Alexandra Grant collaborated on twin series of exhibitions with Cixous, based on the latter's book Philippines.
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Participants joined Alexandra Grant in creating large-scale drawings of Cixous's novel, which touched on many themes including telepathy in Cixous and the work of Jacques Derrida and Sigmund Freud.
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In 2017, Alexandra Grant wrote the text for "Antigone is me" with her sister, Florence Alexandra Grant, which is meant to capture the ancient Greek myth Antigone in a contemporary scene.
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In 2010, Alexandra Grant taught an MFA seminar at Cal State Northridge and from 2013 to 2014 was a mentor in the Pacific Northwest College of Art's Distance MFA program.
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In 2015, Alexandra Grant was an MFA program mentor at Syracuse University, and co-taught a course with Isabelle Lutterodt at Ashesi University in Accra, Ghana.
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In 2015, as part of a residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Nebraska, Alexandra Grant directed a documentary film called Taking Lena Home.
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In 2009, Alexandra Grant met actor Keanu Reeves at a social event.
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Alexandra Grant has been in a relationship with the actor Keanu Reeves since 2019.