Introduction

Alexandra Grant who was born on April 4, 1973, is an American-based visual artist. She is responsible for examining language and written texts through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and other media. She is basically from Los Angeles. 

Early life of Alexandra Grant

Alexandra took birth on April 4, 1973, in Fairview Park, Ohio. Her Parents are quite educated. Her father was a Scottish geology professor. Her mother was an American political science professor, foreign-service diplomat, and educational administrator based in Africa and the Middle East. Grant’s parents got separated when she was very young. Later she spent her childhood days with her mother.

Grant spent her childhood days in Africa but after the divorce of her parents, she came to Mexico City with her mother. 

In Mexico City, she went to a British School that was full of a multi-national student body. At the age of eleven, Grant went to a boarding school named the Thomas Jefferson School, in St. Louis, Missouri for a year. Within a few times, she shifted to Paris with her mother and started studying in the International School of Paris. As she started roaming from one place to another, she learned various languages. This helps her to be multilingual. She can speak English, Spanish, and French.

In the year 1990, Grant concluded her high school at Phillips Exeter Academy which is an extraordinary exclusive private boarding school in Exeter, New Hampshire.

In the year 1995, Grant achieved her graduation degree from Swarthmore College with a BA in history and studio art. In 2000, she achieved her second graduate degree from California College of the Arts in San Francisco with an MFA in drawing and painting.