ALEXIS HUNTER
ARTIST, CURATOR, EDUCATOR
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︎ about me
Alexis Hunter is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and educator currently living and working in Austin, TX. She earned a BFA in Studio Art from Texas State University in 2022, graduating summa cum laude. Her work explores self-image, racial identity, the female body, and the male gaze, through painting, video, social practice, and participatory programming. Hunter approaches both making and curating with honesty and vulnerability, creating spaces for reflection, dialogue, and communal engagement.
Her early body of work, BINARY, examined in-group and out-group dynamics and the psychology of Othering, challenging dominant narratives surrounding the biracial experience. This seed grew into Others, a social practice initiative documenting the faces and stories of 34 biracial individuals in Central Texas through portraiture and interviews, fostering connection and belonging for participants navigating life between cultures.
Hunter’s works, Nobody Fucking Asked You, Attack of the 300 lb Woman!, and HAVEN’T I GIVEN ENOUGH??!!, critically examine fatphobia, body policing, and societal expectations placed on women. Her curatorial project, INVASIVE SPECIES, centered women-identifying artists exploring survival, trauma, and resilience within male-dominated ecosystems. The exhibition received critical recognition, landing in Glasstire’s Top 5 exhibitions to see in Texas and earning Hunter a Concept Animals Community Favorites nomination for Favorite Curator.
Her recent work includes her solo exhibition, Today Is A Wonderful Day. I’ve Never Seen This One Before…, at Ivester Contemporary, as well as participatory programs like OPEN STUDIO with Alexis Hunter and Friends! and Big Bad Karaoke.
Hunter has participated in the Small Black Museum Residency Project at the George Washington Carver Museum, Big Medium’s Line Residency, and Mass Gallery’s Hot Box Residency. She currently teaches painting at The Contemporary Austin’s Art School at Laguna Gloria and was named Austin Chronicle’s Best Visual Artist of 2023, reflecting her impact on the local arts community.
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Her early body of work, BINARY, examined in-group and out-group dynamics and the psychology of Othering, challenging dominant narratives surrounding the biracial experience. This seed grew into Others, a social practice initiative documenting the faces and stories of 34 biracial individuals in Central Texas through portraiture and interviews, fostering connection and belonging for participants navigating life between cultures.
Hunter’s works, Nobody Fucking Asked You, Attack of the 300 lb Woman!, and HAVEN’T I GIVEN ENOUGH??!!, critically examine fatphobia, body policing, and societal expectations placed on women. Her curatorial project, INVASIVE SPECIES, centered women-identifying artists exploring survival, trauma, and resilience within male-dominated ecosystems. The exhibition received critical recognition, landing in Glasstire’s Top 5 exhibitions to see in Texas and earning Hunter a Concept Animals Community Favorites nomination for Favorite Curator.
Her recent work includes her solo exhibition, Today Is A Wonderful Day. I’ve Never Seen This One Before…, at Ivester Contemporary, as well as participatory programs like OPEN STUDIO with Alexis Hunter and Friends! and Big Bad Karaoke.
Hunter has participated in the Small Black Museum Residency Project at the George Washington Carver Museum, Big Medium’s Line Residency, and Mass Gallery’s Hot Box Residency. She currently teaches painting at The Contemporary Austin’s Art School at Laguna Gloria and was named Austin Chronicle’s Best Visual Artist of 2023, reflecting her impact on the local arts community.
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