Artist Bio
ALEXXA WALKER
Alexxa Walker is an award-winning Canadian photographer, videographer, designer and artist currently based in Montreal. She was drawn to the art of storytelling as a child: first through drawing, then through words and writing. As her storytelling has evolved, she now brings narratives to life through photography, design and media.
Alexxa was introduced to the camera while studying Communication Studies at Concordia University. With a focus on representation, media and intersectional feminism, she began to deeply question her role and identity as a woman of color living in a predominantly white society as well as the lack of representation and misrepresentation of black women. This is what motivated her to start creating images through her ongoing project, Phenomxnal Womxn, which serves to disrupt and diversify the representations of women of color since women and African communities have often been pushed to the peripheries of art, photography and history as a whole.
Her portraits often take a community art and collaborative approach that involves immersing herself into the worlds of the women she photographs. It can take weeks to months to complete a photo series from the initial introduction to the actual capturing of the image. Each photograph brings you on a journey through the lives of the women who she collaborates with. From featuring family members and colleagues to getting handmade ‘fugu’ woven by the community, each image becomes an embodiment of different parts of their identities.
In September 2019, she was awarded 3rd place in the Editorial/Press category at the International Photography Awards for her series, 'Phenomxnal Womxn'. The inaugural series exhibited at Alliance Francaise in Kumasi in March 2020. The 'Phenomxnal Womxn' short film has won three awards and been selected to be part of nine film festivals so far. In September 2020, she was awarded the New/Early Career Visual Arts Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts in order to continue the project in Northern Ghana. This series, titled 'I Am Phenomxnal Womxn', exhibited at the Centre for National Culture in Tamale, Ghana from March to April 2021 as well as at Jamestown Coffee Roasters in Accra, Ghana in July 2021.
Her more recent work focuses on reclaiming her narrative as well as celebrating her culture, body and sexuality as a woman from the diaspora through photography, self-portraiture and writing. Since she dropped ‘7ins’, her genesis NFT collection, in January, she has participated in six group NFT exhibitions, including ‘Bold. Black. Beauty.’ by 50mm Collective, ‘Blackout Denver’ by Ancient Warriors NFT and ‘A Perfect Day’ by Superchief Gallery. She also started a BIPOC collective committed to onboarding trans, nonbinary, women of color to web3.
Alexxa was introduced to the camera while studying Communication Studies at Concordia University. With a focus on representation, media and intersectional feminism, she began to deeply question her role and identity as a woman of color living in a predominantly white society as well as the lack of representation and misrepresentation of black women. This is what motivated her to start creating images through her ongoing project, Phenomxnal Womxn, which serves to disrupt and diversify the representations of women of color since women and African communities have often been pushed to the peripheries of art, photography and history as a whole.
Her portraits often take a community art and collaborative approach that involves immersing herself into the worlds of the women she photographs. It can take weeks to months to complete a photo series from the initial introduction to the actual capturing of the image. Each photograph brings you on a journey through the lives of the women who she collaborates with. From featuring family members and colleagues to getting handmade ‘fugu’ woven by the community, each image becomes an embodiment of different parts of their identities.
In September 2019, she was awarded 3rd place in the Editorial/Press category at the International Photography Awards for her series, 'Phenomxnal Womxn'. The inaugural series exhibited at Alliance Francaise in Kumasi in March 2020. The 'Phenomxnal Womxn' short film has won three awards and been selected to be part of nine film festivals so far. In September 2020, she was awarded the New/Early Career Visual Arts Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts in order to continue the project in Northern Ghana. This series, titled 'I Am Phenomxnal Womxn', exhibited at the Centre for National Culture in Tamale, Ghana from March to April 2021 as well as at Jamestown Coffee Roasters in Accra, Ghana in July 2021.
Her more recent work focuses on reclaiming her narrative as well as celebrating her culture, body and sexuality as a woman from the diaspora through photography, self-portraiture and writing. Since she dropped ‘7ins’, her genesis NFT collection, in January, she has participated in six group NFT exhibitions, including ‘Bold. Black. Beauty.’ by 50mm Collective, ‘Blackout Denver’ by Ancient Warriors NFT and ‘A Perfect Day’ by Superchief Gallery. She also started a BIPOC collective committed to onboarding trans, nonbinary, women of color to web3.
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