Alexandra Ross is a visual artist based in Johannesburg.

She works in painting, drawing, printmaking, photography and installation. Broadly, her work aims to evoke the ephemeral, transient nature of being and explores the ambiguous, mutable relationships between reality and illusion, and original and copy.

She began exhibiting in 2004. In 2007, while completing her Masters degree, she won the Brait-Everard Read Art Award, which resulted in her first solo show, Viewpoint. Since then she has had another two solo’s - In Search of Lost Time (2009), and 1 : 1 (both David Krut Projects) and taken part in a number of group shows. In 2010 she spent six months living and working in Germany - initially at the kunst:raum residency (Sylt), and then in Berlin where she took part in a number of group exhibitions, including the 7th Berliner Kunstsalon.

She is currently working on a new body of oil on canvas paintings that form part of her ongoing Polaroid series.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011
1 : 1 David Krut Projects, Johannesburg

2009
In Search Of Lost Time David Krut Projects, Johannesburg

2007
Viewpoint Everard Read, Johannesburg

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011
Joburg Fringe Braamfontein, Johannesburg
Agter die Berge 7 Hours, Berlin (Germany)
Figures of Speech jozi:art lab, Johannesburg
Long Leash Temporärity, Berlin

2010
7th Berliner Kunstsalon Berlin
View From The South Everard Read, Johannesburg
Joburg Art Fair David Krut and Everard Read

2009
Supermarket Muti Gallery, Cape Town
The Great South African Nude Everard Read, Johannesburg
Joburg Art Fair David Krut and Everard Read

2008
In Camera (two-person) Resolution Gallery, Johannesburg
Joburg Art Fair Everard Read

2005
5 Women Gesseau Gallery, Johannesburg

2004
Young Visions Alliance Francaise Gallery, Johannesburg

RESIDENCIES

2010
kunst:raum Sylt Quelle Sylt, Germany

2007 - 2008
Nirox Foundation Johannesburg

AWARDS

2007
Brait-Everard Read Art Award