Alexis Hunter

https://alexishunter.work/ // @m00n_daddy

Alexis Hunter is an identity-based, multidisciplinary artist currently living and working in Austin, TX. She earned a BFA from Texas State University in Studio Art with a concentration in painting and graduated summa cum laude in 2022. Recent solo and group exhibitions include BINARY (Who Do You Belong To?), ICOSA Collective Gallery, Austin, TX (2021); Own it, examine it, and confront it head on, DORF, Austin, TX (2021); Alexis Hunter, at BRICK at Blue Star Arts Complex, San Antonio, TX (2021); Collective Thoughts, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA (2023);. She was selected for the third edition of Big Medium’s LINE Residency (2022) and Vol. 2 of the George Washington Carver Museum’s Small Black Museum Residency (2022). She is also the newest member of the ICOSA Collective as well as a painting instructor at The Contemporary Austin’s Art School at Laguna Gloria. Hunter is the founder of Others, an ongoing publication project documenting the faces and stories of biracial individuals in central Texas. Her work explores self-image through racial identity, mental health, the female body, and the male gaze.