Maddie Alexander is a trans artist, arts facilitator, archivist, and educator. Their artistic practice focuses on embodied queer and trans experiences while exploring larger themes of archiving, queer representation and analogue to digital technological processes. After graduating with a BFA from OCAD University in 2016, he went on to pursue an MFA at NSCAD University where they received The Reznick Family Fund for Student Creativity and the Joan Catherine DeWolfe Graduate Fellowship, and are currently a guest on the unceded territory of Miꞌkmaꞌki. His work has been exhibited locally and internationally including The Khyber Centre for the Arts, RYMD Reykjavik, Xpace Cultural Centre and The Anna Leonowens Gallery. In support of their artwork, they have received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts .
They have always had a distinct interest in methods of translation; through text, language, and analogue to digital technological processes. This process of translation connects to their personal experience of transness: fluctuating and creating through patchwork to make something that feels real and whole.
They were the Chair of Programming at Eyelevel Gallery from 2018 to 2022 and an active member of the NSCAD queer collective from 2018 - 2020. He currently work as the Research Assistant and Public Art Manager with IOTA Studios based in Halifax, NS.