About

Alexa Wright is a London-based artist working across a range of media, including video, photography, interactive installation, book works and objects. Her works have been widely shown internationally in festivals such as Kochi Biennale, India; FILE, SESI Art Gallery, Sao Paolo, Brazil; DaDaFest International, Liverpool; International Women Artists’ Biennale, Incheon, Korea and Athens Photo Festival. Alexa's most recent work was shown in The Great Exhibition Road Festival, Kensington, and Arcana, Walthamstow (both 2026). In 2025 her mini artists book, ‘Obiter Dicta’, was published by Piece of Paper Press, London.

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The question of what it means to be human has always been central to Alexa's work. She has devised and led a number of socially engaged projects exploring human inter-subjectivity through qualities like vulnerability and empathy, often by interacting with people with mental, physical or sensory differences whose personal stories become central to the work. For example, supported by a small ACE Lottery Grant, she co-created ‘Inside Stories’, a series of 11 short video diptychs with men and women at three UK prisons between 2021-23. The final work was first shown at Saatchi Gallery, London, 2023, and MK Gallery, 2024.

 

Alexa's current research is taking on an expanded notion of community through an exploration of our symbiotic relationship with the wider natural world (Gathering Together and The Before And The After, 2025). Her recent interactive installation, All in One (2026) playfully invites its audience to consider our interdependence with the bacteria, viruses, fungi and archaea that make up more than half of the cells in the human body, potentially redefining how we conceive of ourselves.