Alexandra Neuman
Alexandra Neuman (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, workshop facilitator, and ritual designer based in Brooklyn. Drawing on ideas from ecofeminism and postcolonial theory, her works reframe human beings as ecological processes rather than as individual bodies or selves. Through performances and group rituals, she creates speculative matriarchal mythologies that envision a world in which reproductive bodies and lands are free from patriarchal domination. In contrast to the long-standing image of a disembodied father-God moralizing human beings from the sky, her work summons a feminine terrestrial divinity that is simultaneously nurturing, erotic, and deadly.
Alexandra’s works have been presented internationally at institutions and festivals including Performance Space NY, 601 Artspace, Anthology Film Archives, Museum of the Moving Image, Museum of Sex, Fantasia Film Festival, Onomatopee Projects, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Culture Lab LIC, San Diego Art Institute, Miriam Gallery, Nitehawk Cinema, and PRAKSIS Oslo. She is a past participant of Arteles Residency in Finland, PRAKSIS Residency in Norway, Live-Art Ireland and the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin. She is a Webby Award Honoree, Russell Grant Awardee, and recipient of the Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS) grant at UC San Diego.
Alexandra’s artworks have been featured in Hyperallergic Magazine, VICE I-D Italy, Sex & Psychedelics Magazine, Precog Magazine, and Cyberfeminism Index by Inventory Press. In Spring 2021, she published her first book and interactive tarot deck with Onomatopee Projects, Netherlands. She regularly offers a tarot readings under the name Planet Womb at nightlife venues, mutual aid events, and festivals.
Alexandra received a BFA in Visual Arts and Anthropology from Sam Fox School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA in Visual Arts and Speculative Design at UC San Diego. She is currently training to become a hospital chaplain at NYU Langone.
