About

Alexandra Kiss is an artist whose work is produced in series, investigating growth, transformation, and senescence as cyclical temporal processes. She situates her work where research and art meet, believing that knowledge and understanding are revealed through the process of looking without assignation of subject.

Her drawings are often concerned with landscapes and rethinking and reconfiguring figure-ground relationships. Much like a landscape is in a perpetual state of becoming, her drawings are part of a broader narrative which emerges over the course of each series. Working on paper and translucent media at a fixed, consistent scale  and colour palette, allows her to track the narrative of transformation and reveal patterns and relationships beyond what the eye can see.

She lives and practices both art and architecture in Toronto, Canada. Born in Romania and having lived in New York and New Haven, she relocated to Toronto where she now lives with her husband and four-year-old daughter. She is a self taught artist with professional training in architecture. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the Cooper Union in New York (2005), and a Masters in Architecture from Yale University (2011). After a decade of working in architecture, she turned her focus to drawing in 2018. Her drawing practice is informed by her architectural education: cognizant of space, with an emphasis on precision, and diagramming information ascertained through research, observation, and analysis. 

She has been in group exhibitions and art fairs in Toronto, Canada, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Her work is held in private collections in Canada, US, Hong Kong, and Ireland. Her drawing has been featured on the cover of Architectural Theory Review, Volume 25, Numbers 1-2, published by Routledge.

She is a member of Spilt Milk Gallery, and Artist Parent Index.