Alexandra Jonscher
B. 1997, Chicago Illinois USA
Lives and works on Cameraygal Country, Sydney Australia
Artist Statement
Alexandra Jonscher is an American-Australian artist who works in painting, installation, text, and new media. Her practice grapples with what it means to be human in the era of social media, the internet, emerging technologies, and post-truth. Her practice questions what is 'real' and 'not real' as she explores the construction of identity, selfhood and meaning-making in a highly processed, networked and artificial world. She produces intricately layered works that combine physical, machine, and digital painting practices grounded in abstract gesture, language and mark-making. Her mark-making represents the index of the human interface, signifying a signature, selfhood, agency, emotion, chaos, presence and being. Drawing from the histories of painting, early net art, popular culture, and Internet culture, she responds to the ideologies distilled in digital technology. Her research aims to locate ruptures, slippages, and faults in technological systems that mirror the human condition rubbing against these systems of order and control in pursuit of connection, truth and meaning.
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EDUCATION
2021 Bachelor of Visual Art (First Class Honours), Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Touchscreens, Prop Gallery
2020 Looking for something meaningful and loving, Sydney Art Collective, Studio Residency
2020 Ctrl+Alt+Delete, AIRspace Projects
2019 Leftovers, Dedspace Gallery
2019 The Limit Does Not Exist, Down/Under Space
2019 All Cats Have Nine Lives, Gaffa Gallery
2017 A Day in the Life, Dedspace Gallery
Group Exhibitions
2024 The House of Confluence - Living Room Porfolio, Residency Unlimited, Govenors Island House, New York, USA
2024 SVA Open Studios, School of Visual Arts New York, New York, USA
2023 TABOO, Bankstown Art Centre, Bankstown NSW
2023 Horse Girl, curated by DARLINGS, Puzzle Gallery, Sydney NSW
2023 EMERGING 2023, Gosford Regional Gallery, NSW
2022 Plexus, KUDOS x NAS x SCA, Abstract Thoughts Gallery, Darlinghurst NSW
2022 Trigon, Darlings Gallery (Online Exhibition, Artsy.com)
2022 Soft Copies, Annandale Galleries, Annandale NSW
2022 Cave 2.0, Cave Offsite International, Curated by Seamus Heidenreich, Regional NSW
2022 Inaugural Exhibition, Sketch Collective Gallery, Surry Hills
2021 New Contemporaries, Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, Camperdown NSW
2021 Blank Page, Point Five Gallery, Marrickville NSW
2020 Hatched: The National Graduate Exhibition, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth WA
2020 Some Thing: A Grad Show, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney NSW
2019 Sydney College of the Arts Undergraduate Degree Show, Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, Rozelle NSW
2019 Womens Work, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney NSW
2018 USU Creative Awards, Verge Gallery, Darlington NSW
2017 USU Creative Awards, Verge Gallery, Darlington NSW
2017 Experimentum, University of Sydney Holme Building, Camperdown NSW
Art Events and Fairs
2024 FOUNDATIONS Art Fair, DARLINGS, artsy.com
2023 Cut N Polish: Artist Car Boot Sale (DARLINGS Booth), Carriagworks, Sydney NSW
2022 Hazlehurst Art Centre, Made by Hand Art & Design Market, Hazlehurst NSW
2022 Cut N Polish: Artist Car Boot Sale, Carriageworks, Sydney NSW
2020 Naughties Buy Nature: Bushfire Relief Auction, Mosman High School, Mosman
2019 Vivid Afterparty: Queens of the Jungle, Down/Under Space
2017 The Other Art Fair: Sydney, Australia Technology Park, Redfern
2017 Verge Festival, Dedspace Gallery, Rozelle
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Commissions
2023 'Slipstream', collaboration with Andrew Christie, ReVITALise Rainbow Tunnels, Ashfield NSW, commissioned by Transport for NSW
2023 'Slipstream', collaboration with Andrew Christie, Sydney WorldPride 2023, Wynscreen, Sydney, NSW, commissioned by Transport for NSW
RESIDENCIES
AWARDS AND PRIZES
2024 'Best Small Project' for ReVITALise Creative Tunnels Program, Asia Pacific Place Leaders Award
2024 'Best Street Event or Festival' for ReVITALise Creative Tunnels Program, Australian Street Art Awards
2022 Fishers Ghost Art Award, Open Prize Selected Finalist, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Cambelltown NSW
2019 Zelda Stedman Young Artist Scholarship, University of Sydney, NSW
2017 Honourable Mention, USU Creative Awards, Verge Gallery
PRESS AND JOURNALISM
Press
2023 dither_art Studio Interview
2022 Demure Mag, Issue 0.8
2021 Lobster Magazine, PEACE OF MIND
2021 Mosman Living, Former Mosman High Student Allie Jonscher is an Emerging Artist to Watch
Journalism
2018 - 2022 Host of Culture Guide, (Thursday Arvos with Tommy Codling), FBi Radio
2022 Highlights from rivus: The 23rd Biennale of Sydney, FBi Radio
2022 Sydney Arts Post-Lockdown: 6 new galleries open in Sydney, FBi Radio
2019 Creative Crush: Carmen Glynn-Braun, FBi Radio​
2024 Artist in Residence, July - September, Residency Unlimited, New York, USA
2024 Painting & Mixed Media, Summer Residency Program, School of Visual Arts New York, USA