in the studio
Buffalo, NY, 2015
Avye Alexandres (pronounced av-yi) was born in Athens, Greece, and moved to the United States at the age of seven. Her multidisciplinary art practice stems from a background in Photography and Theatre. Evolving from site-based performances her work now encompasses immersive sculpture, locative media, experimental digital narratives, conceptual works, photo, film and video, as well as participatory experiences and installations.
Avye completed her MFA in Art and Emerging Practices from the University at Buffalo, during which time she received a Techné Institute Project Grant and a Morris Arts Scholarship and Fellowship. Her BFA in Theatre Studies from Southern Methodist University focused on Directing, as well as acting, design and solo performance.
In Minneapolis she received an inaugural 2008 Art(ist) on the Verge grant from Northern Lights and the Jerome Foundation, which commissions artists working at the intersection of Art and Technology. She has since exhibited at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, CEPA Gallery, The Soap Factory, IFP-MN Center for Media Arts, Concordia Gallery at Concordia University, Kunstraum in Brooklyn, Minnesota Center for Photography, UNC-Chapel-Hill and the Weismann Art Museum among others. Residencies have spanned the US, Mexico and Berlin.
In 2023 she received a New York State Council on the Arts grant for development of her next interdisciplinary film and performance piece, Compass.
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