Alexandra Antoine

Alexandra Antoine is a Haitian-American interdisciplinary visual artist and cultural apprentice whose multidisciplinary practice explores Haitian heritage, portraiture, food, farming, physical labor, and traditional artistic practices across the African diaspora. Working across collage, portraiture, mural-making, social practice, food-based work, and education, Antoine examines memory, lineage, healing, and community through storytelling, visual design, and forms of making rooted in both domestic and collective life.  Antoine earned an Associate’s degree in Fine Arts from Valencia Community College in 2010 and a BFA with an emphasis in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014. Her work often engages family archive, Haitian culture, apprenticeship, portraiture, and the labor of cultivation, using collage, murals, photography, food, and community-based practice to consider identity, cultural transmission, and the everyday processes through which knowledge is shared across generations. Sources also note her time spent in Léogâne, Haiti, the birthplace of her parents, as an important foundation for her visual language.  Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with solo exhibitions at boundary, Chicago Art Department, and Rootwork Gallery in Chicago, and she has participated in projects with The Heirloom Collards Project, Envisioning Justice, and artist residency and teaching initiatives in the Chicago area. In 2022, she was named Artist in Residence at Lake Forest College. Alexandra Antoine lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.