Alexa Wright

Alexa Wright works with photography, video, sound and interactive digital media. She is interested in portraiture in its broadest sense and makes work that investigates the way that human identities are constructed.

Alexa has worked across the domains of art and science for more than ten years. She has collaborated with several different medical scientists, most frequently with Professor Alf Linney at University College London. Several of Alexa's projects have involved working closely with people with medical conditions or with disabilities. Material gathered for these projects takes the form of taped interviews, photographs and video recordings. Her work raises philosophical questions concerning human identity, but also aims to raise public awareness of the conditions it references.

Alexa's work is exhibited, published and critically acclaimed Internationally. Recent exhibitions include:Cover Story in DaDaFest International, Liverpool (2010); After Image in 'The Definition of Self', 21_21 Design Sight Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2010); Alter Ego in 'Locate Me', Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (2010); Conversation Piece in International Symposium of Electronic Art, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast (2009); 'El cuerpo (con)sentido’, Centro the Historia Zaragoza, Spain; Amber 08, BM Suma Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey (2008); FILE ‘07, SESI Art Gallery, Sao Paolo, Brazil (2007) and Opera Interna in the International Women Artists’ Biennale, Incheon Arts Centre, Korea (2007).

Alexa teaches at the University of Westminster in London. In 2009 she completed a doctoral thesis entitled 'Out of Order, an Investigation into the Visual Significance of Human Monstrosity'.