Theory of Practice
I am interested in an experimental approach to my art practice, one that traces a line between art-making and lifestyle. In my practice I make art that is integrated with my life and keeps pace with my daily rhythms, the lunar cycles and annual rituals rooted in folk traditions around the wheel of the year. I seek to produce work that is specific to the land I am in relationship with and informed by an approach to time that is cyclical and centers contemporary storytelling together with both the remembered and forgotten pasts, alongside ancient futures. My work is rooted in ideas of the world as animate, and uses personal narrative to express the interconnection and relatability of the other-than-human world with my personal experience.
Curatorial Statement
In my curatorial practice I am interested in cultivating an expansive approach to both audience and exhibition, and one that considers the experience of the other-than-human world alongside the human world. I am interested in bridging the gap experience of art enthusiasts inhabiting a continuum of engagement and lived experiences. As an approach to exhibition I am curious how to elevate non-traditional spaces, like front yards, ditches, alleys, and pub walls as an exhibit space for artists to engage audiences alongside the more traditional white-cube museum gallery experience.
Artist Bio
Alexandra Ross is a multidisciplinary artist living in Treaty One Territory, Canada. Her work is lifestyle based and explores her personal relationship at the intersection of land, self-hood, and infrastructure. After graduating with her BFA from the University of Manitoba’s School of Art (2020) she completed the Rural Artist Mentorship Program (2021). From 2021-2024 she was one of four founding partners establishing The Public Brewhouse and Gallery where she curated exhibits, events and artisan markets. Currently, Alexandra is in her fourth year of a five year experiment she is calling “A Little Unsettling” living off-grid in a renovated hunting shed and interrogating the way that colonial relationships to land and person-hood is shaped by infrastructure. Alexandra is also one of three members on the steering committee for The Creative Uncommons Artist Cooperative which is an experimental post-capitalist artist run organization emerging from the experience of her work in, “A Little Unsettling” which seeks to re-common assets for artists.
Education
2020 Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
2010 BA Liberal Arts, Providence University-College, Otterburne, Manitoba.
Mentorships
2020-2021 Rural Arts Mentorship Program, Manitoba Arts Network/Mentoring Artists for
Women’s Art with Brenna George.
Grants and Awards
2025 Learn – Travel Professional Development Grant, Manitoba Arts Council.
2019 School of Art Student Association grant funding to construct and exhibit The Tiny Gallery.
2018 1st Place, University of Manitoba Research Poster Competition.
2018 Undergraduate Research Award. 2017 & 2018 UMSU Scholarship.
Presentations and Lectures
2021 Confluence, Artist Panel, Pinawa, Manitoba.
2020 Beyond the Perimeter, The Winnipeg Free Press and First Fridays, Online art talk.
2019 Democracy Underfoot, Panel Chair, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Professional Experience
2025-Present Creative Uncommons Artist Cooperative Founding member.
2021-2024 The Public Brewhouse and Gallery, Founding partner and curator.
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Anthropocene Gallery of Student Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
2015 The Vanishing Grasslands Steinbach Cultural Arts Centre, Steinbach, Manitoba.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Hyperbolic Perspectives, The Public Brewhouse and Gallery, Steinbach, Manitoba.
2022 Confluence, Viscount Cultural Centre for the Arts, Neepawa, Manitoba.
2021 Confluence, Pinawa Art Gallery, Pinawa, Manitoba.
2021 Conflux, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, Manitoba.
2021 Momentum, Manitoba Arts Network, Online exhibition.
2021 I Am You, You Are Me, Scottsdale Public Art, Scottsdale, USA.
Installation and Performances
2021 To Tell the Whole Truth, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, Manitoba.
2020 A Gallery is a Ditch is an Alleyway, Giroux, Mitchell, Randolf, Manitoba.
2020 Outside Looking In, The Tiny Gallery, New B’s Café, New Bothwell, Manitoba.
2020 Outside Looking In, The Tiny Gallery, Red Wing Diner, Grunthal, Manitoba.
2020 Outside Looking In, The Tiny Gallery, Mitchell Arena, Mitchell, Manitoba.
2018 Forest Guardians, Prairie Outdoor Exhibition, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
2017 500 Poweshiek Skipperlings, Summertide The Forks, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
2017 Grandmother Tree, Prairie Outdoor Exhibition, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Winnipeg,
Manitoba.
Selected Curatorial Experience
2024 where the sound of yellow formed in my heart, Danielle Fontaine Koslowsky, The Public
Brewhouse and Gallery, Steinbach, Manitoba.
2024 I take this story to the quilt, Monica Martens, The Public Brewhouse and Gallery,
Steinbach, Manitoba.
2024 New York to Niverville New Works, Daniel Dueck, The Public Brewhouse and Gallery,
Steinbach, Manitoba.
2023 Hyperbolic Perspectives, Donna Snider, Heidi Kehler, Alexandra Ross, The Public
Brewhouse and Gallery, Steinbach, Manitoba.
2023 Reconnection, Liza Isakov, The Public Brewhouse and Gallery, Steinbach, Manitoba.
2023 My Love Letter to Death, Michelle Peters, The Public Brewhouse and Gallery, Steinbach,
Manitoba.
2022 At My Window, Spencer Rear, The Public Brewhouse and Gallery, Steinbach, Manitoba.
2022 Lessons in Protest, Tess Ray Houston, The Public Brewhouse and Gallery, Steinbach,
Manitoba.
2022 Mother Cake, Kelly Klick, The Public Brewhouse and Gallery, Steinbach, Manitoba.
2022 Not Much Fuss, Alen Banman, The Public Brewhouse and Gallery, Steinbach, Manitoba.
2022 Table Manners Juliana Zwierciadlowska Rhymer, The Public Brewhouse and Gallery,
Steinbach, Manitoba.
2021 Found in Translation, The Public Brewhouse and Gallery, Steinbach, Manitoba.