Solo and Two-person Exhibitions

2021 The Flora-Bama Paintings, Mobile Arts Council, Mobile, Alabama

2018 Lush South, Anne Hunter Gallery, Seaside FL

2017 Pensacola Museum of Art, visiting artist/projection display

2017 Flora-Bama, Amavida, Rosemary Beach

2012 CitizenX, Deep Tanks, Staten Island, NYC (with Christopher Johnson)

Group Exhibitions

2025 Gala and Auction, Transformer Gallery at the Line, DC

Beauty is What We’re Fighting For, Cade Gallery, Anne Arundel Community College, MD

2024 100 Women of Spirit, Zurcher Gallery, New York NY

Roots & Routes, DC/AC, Washington DC

2023 DC Art Now, 200 I St, Washington DC

Any Body, EveryBody, Rhizome, Takoma, MD

2022 Here Not Here, Brentwood Arts Exchange, Brentwood, MD

Women of Spirit, Zurcher, NYC

Wallmountables, DC/AC, Washington DC

Human Nature, DC/AC, Washington DC

2021 Free Punch and Pie, Katzen Museum, American University, Washington DC

2020 Virtual Alumni Exhibition, NYSS Artsy

Ideasthasia, Katzen Museum, American University, Washington DC

2019 ICA Summer Selections, Villa Pieve, Corciano, Italy

2018 Cinco Banderas Show, Artel Gallery, Pensacola FL

Something About Shakespeare, ADSO FWB, juried show-1st place

Okaloosa Public Arts Artists Choice Exhibition, County Admin Building, Fort Walton Beach, FL

2017 Emerald Coast Wellness Festival, Mattie Kelly Arts Center, Destin Fl

2016 Take me Home, Artel Gallery, Pensacola, FL (juried show, 2nd place prize)

2015 Sweet Art For Your Sweetheart, Charles Johnson Gallery, Fort Walton Beach, FL

Conceptual Notions, Full Circle Gallery, Fort Walton Beach, FL

2014 Community Show, Full Circle Gallery, Fort Walton Beach, FL (juried show, 2nd place prize)

2010 Bal Ashram Benefit Art Auction, Shakti Yoga Center, Staten Island, NYC

2006 Blender, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Chelsea, NYC.

2005 The Olive Tree Review, Hunter College, NYC.

2003 Art at Lavacity, Union City, New Jersey.

2002 Language in Conversation, The Painting Center, Soho, NYC.

Kamikaze, E=MC2, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Permeable Borders, Akus Gallery, the University of Connecticut, Willimantic.

2001 The 21st Century Suffragettes, Sideshow, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

The Christmas Show, Sideshow, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Painting Church’s Territory, The Old Opera House, Hudson, NY.

1999 Summer Show, Chautauqua Gallery of Art, Chautauqua, NY.

Landscapes and Abstractions, Credit Suisse Bank, Manhattan.

1997 Valentine’s Show, Jacklight Gallery, Manhattan.

1993 The Salon of the Mating Spiders, Test-Site, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Education

MFA, American University Babs Van Swearington Memorial Fellowship, Ravenel Travel Grant (Paris)

MSUP Urban Planning, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, New York, NY

Tuition scholarship, Urban Magazine contributor. Housing and sustainable principals including international perspective, transit-oriented development

and historic preservation.

B.A. Urban Studies/Art History/Economics CUNY/Hunter College

Graduated cum laude Olive Tree Review contributor, Urban club vice-president.

Certificate Painting, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, New York, NY

awarded Painting Prize 2000, Milton and Sally Avery Award, Exchange to Slade London, Chautauqua Summer School award (2x).

Artist Residencies, Invitationals, and Programs

ACI residency Corciano, Italy July 2019

Pensacola Museum of Art, visiting artist July, 2017

The Vermont Studio Center Johnson, Vermont Fall, 2002

Chautauqua Institute Chautauqua, New York Summers 1999&2000

The Slade School of Fine Art London, England Fall 2000

T.A.’s and Internships

The International Center for Photography, NYC

The Center for Book Arts, NYC

Dieu Donne Paper, NYC

The Art Students’ League, 1987-88. Full Scholarship.

Merce Cunningham Dance Studio, 1989-91.

The University of Alabama, 1984-86. Mary M. Morgan Art Scholarship

Portfolio https://pixiealexander.myportfolio.com/

Community Projects

2016 West Alabama Paintings, FWB Public Library, FWB, FL

2015 Beach Paintings, Fort Walton Beach Public Library, FWB, FL

2025 Winter Show, Zeke’s Coffee DC

Studio Assistant , 1997-2009:

Robert Ryman, Matthew Barney, Cordy Ryman, Merrill Wagoner, Jean Blackburn, Graham Nickson, Mary Frank,

Andrea Stanislav. Provided fabrication and project support for internationally recognized contemporary practices.

Reviews and Publications

• Hanging Loose Magazine, issue 117, Fall 2025. Covers front and back, featured throughout.

• “100 Women of Spirit”, 2024, Zurcher Press.

• “In the Galleries: Defining our Roots as a Pathway to Introspection”, Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, May 17, 2024.

• “’Here Not Here’ at Brentwood Art Exchange”, Eric Celarier, East City Art, January 17, 2023.

• “In the Galleries: Colorful Shapes, Dazzling Drama”, Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, January 13, 2023.

TEACHER

‍ ‍Art League in Alexandria, Virginia. “Abstract Mixed- Media: Memory, Materiality, and Process” Currently in seasonal rotation.

‍ ‍The Nora School

Silver Spring, MD grades 9-12, 2021-2025

• Designed curriculum and taught classes in sculpture, painting, book arts, mural, photography, digital design,

yoga/dance (on a rotating schedule), urban studies, and a darkroom lab.

• Participated in running “Intersession” activities: biking 150 miles from Pittsburgh PA to Cumberland MD,

horse-back riding introduction and camping at Assateague.

• Led a class (Mural) using participatory community process in designing and painting a mural in the courtyard, on permanent display

• Additional duties as a CMT (certified medical technician).

Other Teaching Experience:

• DC/AC Gallery, Washington DC, 2023

“Exploring the Intersection of Movement and Art with Pixie Alexander”, weekend workshop.

• “Visiting Artist Workshop” The Pensacola Museum of Art, 2017

Children’s classes for summer camp in Eco –art and portrait painting.

• Teaching Assistant, American University, 2019-2021

Antonio McAffrey, Digital Photography, Jaimes Mayhew, Digital Art. Prepared and gave a lecture on the

History of War Photography, assisted with student’s work on the computer as well as setting up studio lights and Green Screen

Don Kimes, Painting 101, prepared and offered a lecture on art historical perspectives in painting space andlanguage. Assisted with basic drawing techniques.

• Summer Arts Program Instructor Pensacola Museum of Art Pensacola FL, Talk, demo, and art contest judge

• Arts Club Pensacola FL

• YMCA Camp Walden, arts and crafts director summer after high school

• YMCA Camp VACAMAS, Environmental Education Program, spring 1994; weekend and summer counselor

to “at-risk” teenagers, 1987-1998; Dance Workshop Gay Burke’s Attic Tuscaloosa Alabama, summer 1993.

• Artlab Longwood Elementary 2011-2012.

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE

Urban Planner

Bridgeport Housing Authority, Bridgeport, CT 2008-2009

• Prepared HUD applications, produced maps, prepared graphic presentations for the public.

• Analyzed real estate portfolio and local demographics.

• Participated in project management meetings and financial strategizing.

New York City Department of City Planning, Staten Island, New York, NY 2007

Urban Planning Intern

• Updated ULURP (Uniform Land Use Review Procedure) files and database. Participated in project review

and interdepartmental meetings. Photographed sites.

Hunter College, New York, New York 2004-2007

Administrative assistant, Liberty Partnership

• Maintained database, drafted letters, and provided general assistance to the director for a program serving

city high school children at risk of dropping out.

Consultant

Village of Wappingers’ Falls, NY 2007

• Ran a series of public charrettes; led work visioning for their new streetscaping plan, worked with the

watershed study and an economic development study.

Environmental Educator

Camp VACAMAS, West Milford, NJ 1992-1998

• Supervised “at risk” city teenagers on camping/hiking trips as well as outward-bound activities and

environmental workshops.

• Hiked and camped along 33 miles of the Appalachian Trail canoeing, biking and backpacking with several

separate groups.

Self-Employed / Entrepreneurial, New York, NY 1992-2004

Exhibiting Artist / Freelancer

• Renovated apartments and homes in the tri-state area: met with architects, installed floors, refined

bathrooms and kitchens.

• Freelance photographer (Time Out magazine, private clients) / camera assistant - feature films (High Art,

Luminous Motion). Printed for Magnum Photos (special project: Giles Perez)

• Letterpress and bookbinding studios: supervised the production of limited edition bindings and printings.

• Guggenheim Museum Fabrication Department

Freelance/Independent 2011- 2019

• Soccer mom, boy scout mom, beach mom

• Investigated and photographed tornado damage in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Produced a fundraiser with local

musicians’ various interpretations of song “Stars Fell on Alabama” with presentation about the disaster,

weather patterns, and tornadoes in general.

• Volunteered at Fort Walton Beach Planning Agency: Researched land development code questions,

searched GIS maps, drafted letters. Plotted development application calendars.

• Volunteered at Shelter House in Fort Walton Beach, FL. Underwent training to work with women in crisis.

• Liaison between Thai Buddhist temple “Wat Mongkolratanaram” in Fort Walton Beach and local building

code enforcement. (Also studied and practiced insight meditation there and cooked with the women at

Sunday market) 2012-2014

• Part Time work at Sundog Books in Seaside, Florida.

• Active in my own painting studio and writing projects.

• Founded “Gulfbird Industries”, a local women’s art collective and resource incubator. A vehicle for

combining art and community projects focused on women’s health, economic, and political issues.

Exploring personal narratives and practical resources.

• Participant in a “Corporeal Writing” workshop series with Lidia Yuknavitch in Portland, Oregon. Completed a draft of a memoir.

• Volunteer with Shelter House in Fort Walton Beach.

• Active in the local chapter of American Planning Association and Seaside Institute.

• Yoga teacher certified with Laura Tyree at Dragonfly Yoga Fort Walton Beach 2018.

SKILLS

Computer: Proficient in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Premier, Final Cut Pro, SPSS,

and GIS

Languages: Intermediate German, basic French, rough Spanish.

Certified Medical Technician, the Nora School 2021-currently

WEBSITE

https://www.pixiealexander.com/