Alexandria Smith is a mixed media visual artist and active member of Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter. She earned her B.F.A. in illustration from Syracuse University, M.A. in art education from New York University, and M.F.A. in painting and drawing from Parsons The New School for Design.
While at MacDowell, Smith completed large-scale paintings on canvas that explore the concepts of dark light and the nocturnal. These paintings were exhibited in a group exhibit at MassMoCA opening in March 2018, a group exhibit in June 2018 at Anna Marra Contemporanea in Rome, and a solo exhibit in the Spring 2019 at The Stone Gallery at Boston University. Her work will also be featured in the March 2018 Northeast issue of New American Paintings.
