ARTIST STATEMENT
I work in textile and movement to explore personal and collective preservation, restoration, and expansion. Handmade banners (dyed, stitched, torn, appliqued, inked, embroidered) reference the visual, kinetic, and metaphoric elements of parades. They often feature intimate stories and totems of personal history; the pieces themselves becoming acts of reclamation, documentation, myth creation. My work prods the spaces between our individual and collective parades of self – assuming an audience, crafted for display – and our experience of living within that presentation: what do we say/display of ourselves to ourselves? How does it shape us as we shape it? Each piece I make is worked entirely by hand - pushing into the intimacy and tenderness that cloth allows, in contrast and/or conversation with the boldness of parade.
Photo by Ryan Stopera
BIO
Alexandra Beaumont is a textile artist and dancer. She was born and raised in South Carolina to a Jamaican father and American mother, both working musicians. She attended the residential South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities throughout high school, focusing on dance and visual arts, and went on to Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY where she studied fashion design. After working in New York City as a menswear designer, she returned to a fine arts practice, incorporating her love for fabrics and hand sewing. She now lives in Minneapolis, MN, where she makes work centering themes of personal reconstruction, community, and celebratory display. Her first solo exhibition “Version” was presented at Ridgewater College in Minnesota in the fall of 2022. She is a 2022 recipient of the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council “Next Step Fund” grant, and a 2023 Forecast Early Career Project grantee. She is a member of PF Studios in Minneapolis, MN and contributes to the development team of Public Functionary, a gallery, performance space, and café supporting BIPOC and LGBTQ artists in the Twin Cities.
Video by Sophia Abrams about my practice and work in Change is God: Take Root Among the Stars -
Black Abstraction in the Midwest, at SooVac in Minneapolis, MN
CV
2005-2007
EDUCATION
Pratt Institute
BFA Program – Fashion Design
2001-2005
EDUCATION
South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities
Visual Arts and Dance
2023
Forecast Public Arts, Early Career Artist Project Grant
GRANT
2022 - 2023
Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, Next Step Fund
GRANT
September - October 2022
SOLO EXHIBITION
Version, Ridgewater College
Hutchinson, MN and Wilmar, MN
January - March 2023
EXHIBITION
(Exhibiting as "Les Monts" with Agnes Mont)
Co-Create, Stay Home Gallery
Paris, TN
January - February 2023
EXHIBITION
Your Place At the Table III: Rooted, 311 Gallery
Raleigh, NC
December 2023
EXHIBITION
Crocker Kingsley Exhibition, Blue Line Arts
Roseville, CA
November 2022 - January 2023
EXHIBITION
Welcome to Our Haus, Bobblehaus
New York, NY
November 2022
EXHIBITION
Paradox, Acme Collective
Minneapolis, MN
October - November 2022
EXHIBITION
Smoke and Ground, Public Functionary
Minneapolis, MN
September - October 2022
EXHIBITION
Series, Site:Brooklyn
Online Exhibition
September - October 2022
EXHIBITION
New Contemporaries, Dodomu Gallery
Online Exhibition
August - September 2022
EXHIBITION
Minnesota State Fair 2022 Fine Arts Exhibition
St. Paul, MN
July - August 2022
EXHIBITION
I Figure: Contemporary Figurative Art, Arts Benicia
Benicia, Ca
July 2022
EXHIBITION
Women in Art 2022, Las Lagunas Art Gallery
Laguna Beach, CA
July 2022
EXHIBITION
Sehnsucht, Field Projects
New York, NY
June - July 2022
EXHIBITION
Change is God: Take Root Among the Stars - Black Abstraction in the Midwest, SooVAC
Minneapolis, MN
June - July 2022
EXHIBITION
Weaving Fragments, Form + Content Gallery
Minneapolis, MN
June - December 2022
EXHIBITION
Chroma, MSP International Airport
St. Paul, MN
May - July 2022
EXHIBITION
Painting at Night, Collar Works and Artist/Mother Podcast
Troy, NY
May - June 2022
EXHIBITION
Perfect Imperfections: Faces and Figures, Women United Art Movement
Online Exhibition
May - June 2022
EXHIBITION
Face to Face, ARC Gallery
San Francisco, CA
May - June 2022
EXHIBITION
Through Mossy Ways, I Like Your Work
Online and Catalog Exhibition
April - May 2022
EXHIBITION
The Deeply Rooted, Woman Made Gallery
Chicago, IL
February - March 2022
EXHIBITION
Our Neighborhood, AD Gallery at UNC Pembroke
Pembroke, NC
January - March 2022
EXHIBITION
Portrayal: Re-Present, Eagan Art House
Eagan, MN
November - December 2021
EXHIBITION
Nourish, PF Studios
Minneapolis, MN
September 2021
EXHIBITION
In.Art, Hallberg Center for the Arts
Wyoming, MN
August 2021
EXHIBITION
C4W:2021 Elemental, Gamut Gallery
Minneapolis, MN
June 2021
EXHIBITION
Art and Social Justice
Ellington-White Contemporary Art Gallery
Fayetteville, NC
July 2019
EXHIBITION
Midwest Mixed Conference Exhibition
Minneapolis, MN
Published January 2023
Issue #6, Viral Ecologies
PUBLICATION (ONLINE)
May 14th - 15th, 2022
PERFORMANCE
"Line Square Circle", Reset, YoungDance
St. Paul, MN
March 25th, 2022
PERFORMANCE
Generic Minneapolis, Red Eye Theater
Minneapolis, MN
July 10th, 2021
PERFORMANCE
CollabArts Vol.3, DanceBarn Collective
St. Paul, MN
July 2022
RESIDENCY
Tofte Lake Center
Ely, MN
October - December 2021
RESIDENCY
Workroom Residency, YoungDance
St. Paul, MN
August 2022
1st Place; Textiles, Minnesota State Fair 2022 Fine Arts Exhibition
AWARD
May 2022
PROGRAMMING
Line Square Circle - Choreography Project, YoungDance
St. Paul, MN
December 2021
PROGRAMMING
Get Up to Get Down, Dance Workshop
St. Paul, MN
October - December 2020
PROGRAMMING
Art on the Ballot, Lawn Sign Exhibition (with Angie Tillges)
Minneapolis, MN
Summer - Fall 2021
COHORT LEARNING
Transformational Creative Strategies Training (TRCSTR)
Arts and organizing training, sponsored by the Minneapolis Institute of Art and HOPE Community
Minneapolis, MN
Summer 2021 - Current
ORGANIZATIONS/ASSOCIATIONS
Public Functionary - PF Studios
Minneapolis, MN