Alexandra Grant

 Alexandra Annette Grant, born April 4 1973, is an American visual artist from the United States. She explores the meaning of language and written texts through drawing paintings, sculpture, video and various other forms of media. A large portion of her work is inspired by exchanges between writers. Grant is an expert on the writing process and utilizes linguistic theory to produce visual representations. Her birthplace was Fairview Park in 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. The school was home for one year. After that, she moved to Paris with her mother where she attended The International School of Paris. Based on these experiences at various places in Europe and the Middle East, Grant is multilingual, and she speaks English, Spanish, and French.