Alexandra Grant

 Alexandra Annette Grant, born April 4 1973 was an American visual artist from the United States. She examines the meaning of language as well as written text through drawing paintings, sculpture, video and various other forms of media. The majority of her work is inspired by exchanges between writers. [Grant studies the process of writing and ideas that are based on theories of language as they relate to art and creates visual works that are influenced by texts and collaborative group works based on that process.She is based in Los Angeles.Grant was born in Fairview Park, Ohio. Her father was a Scottish geology professor and her mother an American political science professor,foreign-service diplomat, and educational administratorbased in Africaand the Middle East Her parents, who both spent time in Africa, divorced when she was young and she lived with her mother, who was based in Mexico City.In Mexico City, she attended a British school that was made up of a multi-national student body. Grant was eleven years old when she began attending the Thomas Jefferson School in St. Louis, Missouri. She attended for a year. Then, she moved with her mother to Paris, where she attended the International School of Paris. From these experiences in various locations in Europe as well as the Middle East, Grant is multilingual and speaks English, Spanish, and French.