http://www.maddie-alexander.com/projects-1 daily 0.75 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1459806336045-1XH9RFY4AU8WJ7KT20UM/_DSC7196.jpg PROJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1445807756604-MHCB57MKWNXYJ5K6RTES/Portrait3.jpg PROJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1462295157249-25PV26U3O78XNDPEUDL6/Screen+Shot+2016-05-01+at+9.28.52+PM.png PROJECTS - You Can Still Walk With A Broken Toe, 2016 *video still* Please click image to watch full video.   This piece is an Audio Visual installation which is meant to be experienced in a space. This video attached is a compilation of the video pieces accompanied by the audio piece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1445917246453-4L05PM8E5MC55N9O5I82/detail%2C+install%2C+%2522Unashamed%2522.jpg PROJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1445806557130-VXZWDUEVQGRBPEKNH5M2/image-asset.jpeg PROJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1445807010184-8T5DJ5AT1SZ8HKGGJNY6/image-asset.jpeg PROJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1445807312620-1NTQYEJBSAZBR2T9CWTU/8.jpg PROJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1467661298513-NYQ436I7OVX42GU65F5Z/2.jpg PROJECTS *video still* Please click image to watch full video.   Straddling the Line, 2016 In this work, the artist plays with the performative nature of gender. There is a ubiquitous pressure to present oneself as one consistent gender identity, and this becomes limiting and often oppressive for those who fluctuate or exist between the lines. The artist uses the duality of both the screens and shadows to speak to the hyper-masculine and hyper-feminine performance while the performer remains of the same body. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1477855086969-6VHQYZGV4DE5JL1S9KEX/plot+twist.jpg PROJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1492110422432-A45DRAQ8T08EIBA63UID/Body+Talks+02.jpg PROJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1498521511113-629P3THD29IU2F2EHDQZ/femme4femme1.jpg PROJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1510434878405-LA4CG0HTPEBPV2Q40Y3B/DSC_0020.JPG PROJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1445807106311-U4OVTG5E4NGZSJSQJ935/Self+projected+history+1.jpg PROJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1528147514632-6FWGVC03VCTE29YBPR7E/IMG_0001.jpg PROJECTS Lavender Menace. Curated by ; Maddie Alexander Artists: Adrienne Crossman, Maximilian Suillerot, Charlie “Scratchpeppper” McQuaide, Faith, Jesse King. The White House Studio Project, May 17th-25th, 2018. At a National Organization for Women (NOW) meeting in 1969, author, activist, founder and president of NOW Betty Friedan stated that “outspoken lesbians” had become a “threat to the feminist movement.” Friedan claimed that their presence “distracted from the ultimate goal of gaining equality for women,” and labeled them a “lavender menace." Nearly 50 years later, this rhetoric of exclusion as a means for assimilation still remains present. Being too loud, too radical, or non-commodifiable deems you a potential threat. Within this exhibition, these five artists explore varying intersections of queerness which are continually erased, overlooked, or silenced in order to keep queerness palatable for the masses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1504296789408-0WF51E1HGSG06XS5RFYT/Roundtable+Closing+Reception+179.jpg PROJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1543277493936-CXBVDKS3EJ4NDCP7K5NP/red+part+1.jpeg PROJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1660836019965-GDML1B03MZKOOA9GYMCC/titleshot_02.jpg PROJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1693837195170-0N1CCRPQSV2WS7EAFO45/Mudhouse-2023-Session3-3764+%282%29.jpg PROJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1724269318472-7433DH2Q2Y5C81X3SZ8P/A7_03852.jpg PROJECTS - Performance, 2024 Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy As a culmination of the Artists' Research Laboratory 2024, this performance took place in Fondazione Antonio Ratti, in collaboration with Stefano Cavaliero, in which the artist invited the cohort to join them in the ritual of administering their weekly HRT shot. Images include Detail shots of performance hosted on July 25th 2024. Materials include; Wheatpaste mural of inkjet prints, Local Flora, Coated Cyanotype paper (8x10”), Cyanotype print on Silk Cotton (20x20”), Materials for Testosterone Injection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1724256190884-ZCFTAKZBQNPSZL9TJGRX/IMG_3943.JPG PROJECTS - Slippages. 2024 Footnote Centre Belgrade, Serbia Through an autoethnographic approach, “Slippages” explores the unkempt, transient moments of medical transition. Reflecting on the tenseness of anticipation; the works illuminate moments of joy, disappointment, boredom, growth, and inertia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1716317002765-TF8O0XQ40NSEYPGXE278/IMG_8709.JPG PROJECTS Constant Craving Maddie Alexander The Anna Leonowens Gallery March 3rd-7th, 2020 Shame the painful feeling arising from consciousness of something dishonorable or improper done by oneself or another: Where do you hold shame in your body? Desire a longing or craving, for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment: How close is it to where you hold desire? Is your shame an acute reaction to desire? Do you feel desire without a trace of shame? In this exhibition, multidisciplinary artist Maddie Alexander explores the attachments between shame, desire, and memory through the lens of embodied queer + trans experience. Documentation by Maddie Alexander https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1564064251176-AL5PENCYYEOZDQ06MUGJ/IMG_8456.jpg PROJECTS Maddie Alexander https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1729708713432-XEGOBDYLWUBFSD9LJ0UP/Screenshot+2024-10-18+at+3.38.05%E2%80%AFPM.png PROJECTS - TESTIMONY, 2024 Aberdeen Cultural Centre, Moncton, NB “Testimony” acts as a space for reflection and meditation on the process of accessing gender affirming care. In this, there is a focus on the passing of time, repetition, and ritual. Moving through both the mundane and affecting moments, the works approach the tension between intimate moments of bodily care alongside the moments of exposure; in moving through the policy and protocol of assessing gender affirming care. In these assemblage works recording their life and lineage as a trans person; these altars and documentations are spaces of reflection, created through intentionally durational methods. These works consider Alexander’s experiences of time passing, waiting for care, and caring for himself. Utilizing the concept of a testimony both as an act of self advocating to receive care, and as a celebration in archiving the everyday magic of trans existence- this space melts personal histories with the rich histories of the trans folks who have come before them. By creating an archive of their own transitional lineage, shared alongside other archival trans lineages, these histories meet together in the worlds we’ve created for ourselves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1752153629356-OMRPWTPP6HVZ17YJPJ0U/1.jpg PROJECTS A Garden of Our Own, 2025 Maddie Alexander + Sacha Stephan Halifax Mural Fest, Halifax NS 15 ft x 8 ft, Wheatpaste and Acrylic Paint. Bringing together different plant life that are known to support herbal approaches to HRT, A Garden of Our Own reflects the ways in which trans folks can and will thrive through community care, and carving out our own ways of survival. This work features different herbs and plant life that can support herbal HRT, accompanied by prints which share details of how to grow, nurture, and harvest each plant to support hormonal shifts. The wheatpasted prints are designed to naturally deteriorate over time, while the painted mural remains consistent throughout the elements. This juxtaposition mirrors the tensions between threats of our rights to access medical gender affirming care being gatekeeped and eradicated; with the known fact that trans people have always existed, and will always find a way. The research for this project was supported by some texts available online and for free, we thank these researchers for their care and thoughtfulness. Holistic Health for Transgender & Gender Variant Folks, Dori Midnight (link: https://www.berkeleyherbalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Midnight_D_Transgender_Care.pdf) Transgender herb garden : An MtF guide to disconnecting one's self from big pharma, FlyingOtter (link: https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/zines/id/1185) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1748517132469-VXNBG8VRV3UWI4AT98UZ/IMG_0389.JPG PROJECTS Cyanotype on Cotton Fabric, 3 ft x 6 ft. Plaster Sculpture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1578322860910-PTK8GEM3K6N6GTYMPQU3/Day+01_Alexander.jpg PROJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1760277793505-QW4D14WSYT6VI062M6VX/IMG_1636.JPG PROJECTS Teenage Dirtbag , 2025 Nuit Blanche, East End, Toronto, ON Teenage Dirtbag is an installation exploring boyhood in the late 90s and early 2000s. Set under the tableau of his own imagined teenage bedroom, Alexander reflects on feelings of yearning, dreaming, teen angst, and moments of catching your reflection through pop culture. Using the vehicle of 90’s and early aughts nostalgia, Alexander explores the culture that shaped their queer sensibility and gender exploration. This work is a love letter to the trans kids who become trans adults, and every neighbour that makes up his home– East York. Our futures are vivid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/562d187fe4b02f107e1ac86b/1775224001527-MBSCZ1WQGW8RS5PE2LVU/IMG_1900.JPG PROJECTS - The Name Of, A Residency for Trans* Artists, 2026 “The Name Of” is a one week residency founded by and facilitated by multidisciplinary artist Maddie Alexander (They/He), hosted at Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts on the Toronto Island. This residency is for trans* artists, inclusive of all who fall under the gender diverse, 2 Spirit, Intersex, GNC, or Non-Binary experience. The intention of this residency is to foster a focused space for trans* artists to collaborate, share research, expand our networks, and nurture space to dig into our practices in new and explorative ways. Our residency title, “The Name Of”, is a fragment of text pulled from trans activist Lou Sullivan's Diary (We Both Laughed in Pleasure). In this phrase, Lou exclaims “ I don’t need to know the name of why I feel so run down”. The act of naming our experiences as trans* folks is layered and expansive. “The Name Of” offers guided space for trans* artists to move through this exploration, however they feel fit. 2026 Cohort: Robin Alex McDonald, Riley Yaxley, Shannon Sandwell, Azka Ahmed, Amir Patros, Jadi Darawi, Abi Hodson, Theo Donovan, Whess, Aras Pars Aykus, Aida Lodge, Michael David Battle, Eli Nolet, Nahrain, Lorelei D'Andriole, Cameron DePutter. 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