Alexandra Jonscher (b. 1997, Chicago, Illinois) is an artist exploring the frontiers of painting in the post-digital age, producing work that crosses painting, photo-media, digital art, sculpture, and installation.

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Her practice explores what it means to be human in this technological hellscape as she collaborates with software, algorithms, and machines to create uncanny abstractions. She is drawn to the aesthetics of digital art and Internet culture, but also forever in awe of the aura of an abstract, oil painting. So, her work explores how to blend these two aesthetic experiences into what she thinks of as ‘simulated paintings’ that translate the digital into IRL artwork. She is committed to protecting her viewers' retinas from blue light damage and sees her work as an opportunity to visually ‘touch grass’.

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Jonscher’s practice draws from reflections on the post-truth political landscape, online identity construction, and the uncanny tension between simulation and reality in the digital age. Her works act as a quiet resistance to systems of algorithmic control, surveillance, and optimisation, by bringing a child-like sense of curiosity, intuition, chaos and play to industrial, mechanic and coded environments. Her layered, hybrid-like works invite viewers to look closely, to sift through fragments of machine-like precision, code, image, and painterly gesture to find the human presence quietly lurking beneath the surface and behind the screen.

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Alexandra Jonscher is an American-Australian artist based on Gadigal, Cammeraygal and Borogegal Country in Sydney, NSW.

 

Jonscher graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Art (First Class Honours) majoring in Painting from Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney in 2021. She was awarded the Zelda Steadman Young Artist Scholarship (2019). She has exhibited artwork in exhibitions and prizes across Australia, including Campbelltown Art Centre 'Fishers Ghost Prize' (2025 and 2022), Gosford Regional Gallery 'EMERGING' (2023), Bankstown Art Centre 'Taboo' (2022), Perth Institute of Contemporary Art 'Hatched: The National Graduate Show' (2020) and Annandale Galleries 'Soft Copies' (2022).

 

She has exhibited internationally in New York on Govenors Island, the School of Visual Arts New York, and upstate New York 'Delicate Proximities' (2024). Jonscher has participated in art fairs including The Other Art Fair (2017) and FOUNDATIONS Art Fair on artsy.com (2024). She regularly shows work with DARLINGS. The first solo presentation of her works was at Praxis Artspace in Adelaide in 2025.

 

Jonscher has participated in international artist residencies in New York at the School of Visual Arts New York and Residency Unlimited (2024). She is currently an artist-in-residence at the North Sydney Council Primrose Park Artist Studios (2025).