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Alexandra Jonscher

B. 1997, Chicago Illinois USA
Lives and works on Cameraygal Country, Sydney Australia

Artist Statement

Alexandra Jonscher is an American-Australian artist working in painting, installation and new media. ​Her practice is a conversation with technology grappling with what it means to be human in the digital age. She produces intricately layered works in painting, sculpture and installation that combine physical, machine, and digital painting practices grounded in abstract gesture and mark-making. Drawing from the histories of painting, cyberfeminism, Internet culture and female rage, her work aims to touch, feel, connect and speak with machines through painting. Her mark-making represents the index of the human interface, signifying selfhood, agency, emotion, chaos, presence and being. She wields her gesture to react and respond to the ideologies distilled in digital technology, aiming to locate ruptures, slippages, and faults in technological systems that mirror the human condition rubbing against these systems of power and control.

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EDUCATION

2021 Bachelor of Visual Art (First Class Honours), Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney

EXHIBITIONS

Solo Exhibitions

2022 Touchscreens, Prop Gallery
2020 Looking for something meaningful and loving, Sydney Art Collective, Studio Residency
2020 Ctrl+Alt+Delete, AIRspace Projects
2019 Leftovers, Dedspace Gallery
2019 The Limit Does Not Exist, Down/Under Space
2019 All Cats Have Nine Lives, Gaffa Gallery
2017 A Day in the Life, Dedspace Gallery

 

Group Exhibitions

2023 TABOO, Bankstown Art Centre, Bankstown NSW

2023 Horse Girl, curated by DARLINGS, Puzzle Gallery, Sydney NSW

2023 EMERGING 2023, Gosford Regional Gallery, NSW

2022 Plexus, KUDOS x NAS x SCA, Abstract Thoughts Gallery, Darlinghurst NSW

2022 Trigon, Darlings Gallery (Online Exhibition, Artsy.com) 

2022 Soft Copies, Annandale Galleries, Annandale NSW
2022 Cave 2.0, Cave Offsite International, Curated by Seamus Heidenreich, Regional NSW
2022 Inaugural Exhibition, Sketch Collective Gallery, Surry Hills
2021 New Contemporaries, Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, Camperdown NSW
2021 Blank Page, Point Five Gallery, Marrickville NSW
2020 Hatched: The National Graduate Exhibition, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth WA
2020 Some Thing: A Grad Show, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney NSW
2019 Sydney College of the Arts Undergraduate Degree Show, Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, Rozelle NSW
2019 Womens Work, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney NSW
2018 USU Creative Awards, Verge Gallery, Darlington NSW
2017 USU Creative Awards, Verge Gallery, Darlington NSW
2017 Experimentum, University of Sydney Holme Building, Camperdown NSW

 

Art Events and Fairs

2024 FOUNDATIONS Art Fair, DARLINGS, artsy.com

2023 Cut N Polish: Artist Car Boot Sale (DARLINGS Booth), Carriagworks, Sydney NSW

2022 Hazlehurst Art Centre, Made by Hand Art & Design Market, Hazlehurst NSW

2022 Cut N Polish: Artist Car Boot Sale, Carriageworks, Sydney NSW
2020 Naughties Buy Nature: Bushfire Relief Auction, Mosman High School, Mosman
2019 Vivid Afterparty: Queens of the Jungle, Down/Under Space
2017 The Other Art Fair: Sydney, Australia Technology Park, Redfern
2017 Verge Festival, Dedspace Gallery, Rozelle

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Commissions

2023 'Slipstream', collaboration with Andrew Christie, ReVITALise Rainbow Tunnels, Ashfield NSW, commissioned by Transport for NSW

2023 'Slipstream', collaboration with Andrew Christie, Sydney WorldPride 2023, Wynscreen, Sydney, NSW, commissioned by Transport for NSW

AWARDS AND PRIZES

2022 Fishers Ghost Art Award, Open Prize Selected Finalist, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Cambelltown NSW

2019 Zelda Stedman Young Artist Scholarship, University of Sydney, NSW
2017 Honourable Mention, USU Creative Awards, Verge Gallery

 

PRESS AND JOURNALISM

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