Contact Info
Maddie Alexander (They/He)
E: maddie.b.alexander@gmail.com
Education
NSCAD University, MFA, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2018-2020
OCAD University, BFA, Toronto, Ontario, 2012-2016
NSCAD University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2010-2012
Select Exhibitions
SOLO
2025 Teenage Dirtbag, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON
2025 Midnight Sun, Taidetila Muijala, Reila, Finland
2024 Testimony, Aberdeen Cultural Centre, Moncton, NB
2024 Slippages, Footnote Centre, Belgrade, Serbia
2020 Constant Craving, The Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
2019 21 Days to make or break a habit, The Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, NS
2017 Dancing on my own, The New Gallery Resource Centre, Calgary, AB
2017 Vorpun: blar et litur Iongunarinnar, RYMD, Reykjavik, Iceland
2017 Blue is the colour of longing for the distance you never arrive in,
Y+ Contemporary, Toronto, ON
DUO
2025 A Garden Of Our Own, Collaboration with Sacha Stephan, Halifax Mural Festival, Halifax, NS
2023 Standards of Care, Collaboration with Adrien Crossman, Art in the Open, Charlottetown, PEI
2019 Femme4Femme, Collaboration with Morgan Sears-Williams, LEFT Contemporary, Windsor, ON
2019 Femme4Femme, Collaboration with Morgan Sears-Williams, Pinbar, Femmewave Festival, Calgary, AB
2017 Femme4Femme, Collaboration with Morgan Sears-Williams, The Arquives, Toronto, ON
GROUP
2026 BODYFLUID, Orchid Contemporary, Hamilton, ON
2026 Cabinet of Queeriosities, Casa, Lethbridge, AB
2025 The Gesture and Its Aftermath, the Brenda Tuxford Gallery, Eukera, California
2025 The Guest Book, The Alternator, BC
2025 Winter Pride, Ottawa Trans Library, Ottawa, ON
2024 Luminous Bodies, Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, Toronto, ON
2024 Aperto, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
2024 Queer Joy, Humber Art Gallery, Toronto, ON
2023 New Vistas, Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery, Toronto, ON
2023 Mudhouse Exhibition, Agios Ioannis, Crete, Greece
2023 Bad 2 The Bone, The Plumb, Toronto, ON
2023 In the Rhubarb, Between Pheasants Contemporary, Kerns, ON
2023 MakeShift, AHVA Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2021 SIN VERGUENZAS, San José, Costa Rica
2020 behind the curtain, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON
2019 Shapeshifters, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto, ON
2019 Flagging Velvet, The Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
2018 This is why we can’t have nice things, the Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax,NS
2017 Earth Angel; Heart On, The Drake, Toronto, ON
2017 Gender and the Lens, Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto, ON
2016 After/Thought, Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto, ON
2016 Career Launcher, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON
2016 Traces, Gladstone Ryerson Artscape, Toronto, ON
2016 Nuit Rose, Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives, Toronto, ON
2016 Too Queer: A Bi Visibility Cabaret (live performance),
Buddies in Bad Time Theatre, Toronto, ON
2016 OCADU Pride Exhibition, OCADU, Toronto, ON
2016 New Century, Northern Contemporary Gallery, Scotiabank Contact Festival, Toronto, ON
2016 Tough As Nails: Transgressive Queer Glamour, Younger Than Beyonce Gallery, Toronto, ON
2016 INTAC: Desire, Nykyaika Gallery, Tampere, Finland
2016 Art + Design Social Justice Exchange, OCADU, Toronto, ON
2016 INTAC: Desire, Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto, ON
2015 The Elastic Effect, OCADU, Toronto, ON
2015 Feminist FoMo NoMo, OCADU, Toronto, ON
2015 INTAC: Desire, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2015 HERE, Autumn Gallery, Toronto, ON
2009 Contact Festival, Hotshot Gallery, Toronto, ON
Curatorial Work
2018 Nightly Ritual, Co-Curated with Emily Davidson, Venus Envy, August 2021, Halifax, NS
2018 a map for this place: 43º59 n, 79º51 w, L Space Gallery, Toronto, ON
2018 Lavender Menace, The White House Studio Project, Toronto, ON
2018 real::in your reflection, co-curated with Safia Siad, Humber Galleries, Toronto, ON
2015 HERE, Autumn Gallery, Toronto, ON
Residencies
2026 The Grange, Artist in Residence, Norwich, UK
2026 AGA Labs studio, Artist in Residence, Amsterdam, NL
2026 “The Name Of”, A Residency for Trans Artists, Founder and Sole Facilitator, Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, Toronto, ON
2025 Deer Lake Artist Residency, Burnaby, BC
2025 Haystack Open Studio Residency, Deer Isle, Maine
2025 AGO x RBC Emerging Artists Exchange, Toronto, ON
2025 SPAO Photographic Centre, Artist in Residence, Ottawa, ON
2025 Taidetila Muijala, Reila, Finland
2025 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
2024 Luminous Bodies, Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, Toronto, ON
2024 Footnote Centre, Belgrade, Serbia
2024 CSAV - Artists' Research Laboratory, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
2023 Similkameen Artist Residency, Keremeos, BC
2023 Mudhouse Residency, Crete, Greece
2023 Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island, ON
2020 Visual Arts Nova Scotia New Grad Program, Halifax, NS
2019 Centre for Art Tapes, Co-curator in Residence with Emily Davidson, Halifax, NS
2017 Y+ Contemporary, Artist in residence, Toronto, ON
2017 Roundtable Residency, The Dragon Academy, Toronto, ON
2016 YYZlab Artist residency, YYZ Artists Outlet, Toronto, ON
2016 Art Camp, Ryerson Artspace, Toronto, ON
2015 Younger Than Beyonce Gallery, Studio Artist in Residence, Toronto, ON
2014 Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island, ON
Grants + Awards
2026 Artistic Creation, Canada Council for the Arts
2026 Sector Support, Innovation and Development, Canada Council for the Arts
2024 Grants to Individuals, Creation, Arts Nova Scotia
2023 Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2021 Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2019 The Reznick Family Fund for Student Creativity
2018 Joan Catherine DeWolfe Graduate Fellowship
Artist Talks, Publications + Press
2026 Art + Archive: Archival Research in Queer and Trans Artist Practices in Canada, Panel, ArQuives Symposium, Halifax, NS
2026 Artist Presentation, “Long Exposures; traversing HRT and Archival Photography”, Sustainable Body – Symposium on Artistic Research in Analog Practices, Helsinki, Finland
2025 Artist Presentation, SPAO Photographic Art Centre, Ottawa, ON
2025 Artist Presentation, Haystack School of Craft, Deer Isle, Maine
2025 Artist Presentation, AGO, Toronto, ON
2025 “There is no line in Lake Como”, Publication, Como, Italy
2025 Artist Talk, Art for Social Change, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
2025 Artist Talk, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
2024/2025 Mentor and Presenter, STEPS Public Art Forum, virtual
2024 Artist Talk + Cyanotype Workshop, Arts Atlantic Symposium, Aberdeen Cultural Centre, Moncton, NB
2024 Public Cyanotype Workshop + Artist Talk, Footnote Centre, Belgrade, Serbia
2024 Behind and Beyond the Curtain; A conversation between Morgan Sears-Williams + Maddie Alexander, Femme Art Review, Toronto, ON
2020 Constant Craving, Artist Talk, The Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
2019 Body Politic: The Power of Sweat, Essay, Art/iculation Magazine
2019 New Art Issue, Interview, The Coast, Halifax, NS
2018 it is what it is, Exhibition Essay, Xpace cultural Centre, Toronto, ON
2017 The Queer art of failing, then making it look like you did it on purpose, Visiting Artist and Lecture Series, University of Calgary
2017 Roundtable Residency Feature, Interview
2017 Crush On Humans, Presentation on Queer Futures, Summerworks Festival, Toronto, ON
2015 Art and Sexuality: Visuals of Feminism and Sexual/Gender Justice, Feminist Art Conference, OCADU, Artist Talk and Panel Discussion
2016 Art + Design Social Justice Exchange, OCADU, Artist Talk and Panel Discussion
2016 Being Digital, Exhibition Essay, Xpace Cultural Centre
2016 Open Crit, Evening of Critique held at Xpace Cultural Centre, Facilitator
2016 Art, Glamour and Beyonce, Review of Tough As Nails in Daily Xtra
2016 Tough as Nails: Transgressive Queer Glamour. Curatorial Essay by Genevieve Flavelle
2016 Review: Too Queer: A Bi Visibility Cabaret, Review by Mooney on Theatre
Community Engagement
2018- 2022 Eyelevel Gallery, Board Member + Chair of Programming
2018- 2020 The NSCAD Queer Collective, Member
Employment
2020-2026 IOTA Studios, Research Assistant and Art Manager – Public Art
2020-2022 BEING Studio, Project Coordinator and Arts Administrator
2020 Anchor Archive Zine Library, Library Coordinator
2020 NSCAD University, Sessional Instructor, CULT 4200 Respond/Resist the Archive
2019 NSCAD University, Sessional Instructor, ARTS 3166-1 Investigating Identity Based Art
2019 NSCAD University, CULT 3200 Queer Theory, Research/Teaching Assistant
2019-2020 NSCAD University Library, Archives Project Assistant
2019 NSCAD University, Intro to Visual Culture, Teaching Assistant
2019 NSCAD University, Intro to Photography, Teaching Assistant
2018 Humber Galleries, Programming Assistant
2016-2018 OCAD University, Admissions and Recruitment
2016-2017 The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Gallery Attendant
2015-2016 Xpace Cultural Centre, Programming Assistant
2014-2016 OCAD University Photography Centre