About

Alex Black is a Canadian image maker based between Paris and New York. With a background in marketing, advertising, and creative direction, she brings a strategic understanding of culture and audience to visual storytelling, translating brand identity into thoughtful, concept-driven imagery.

Having lived as both a chameleon and an outsider across different Western cultures, she learned to embrace novelty within the parameters of familiarity, balancing conformity with radical self-expression to question the status quo. The cultural themes in her work emerge from the intersection of the European and North American cities she grew up between, shaping a visual language informed by contrasting aesthetics and perspectives. Drawn to the subconscious and the unpredictable nature of perception, she explores abstraction and fragmentation to reveal what lies beneath the surface, finding tension between the familiar and the uncanny.

Through an intuitive, process-driven approach, she embraces experimentation to create bold, graphic imagery that elevates products and cuts through visual noise. Using light, colour, shape, and form, she crafts distinctive brand worlds that spark curiosity and leave a lasting impression.

EXHIBITIONS

AU ROI / PARIS, FRANCE, 2025 // SOLO SHOW
DITROIT DREAM / MILAN, ITALY, 2025 // SOLO SHOW
MCCORD MUSEUM / MONTREAL, CANADA, 2024 // GROUP SHOW
CONTACT FESTIVAL, CULTURAL GOODS GALLERY, DISTORTION // TORONTO, CANADA, 2023 / GROUP SHOW
PHI CENTRE / MONTREAL, CANADA, 2021 // GROUP SHOW
LES RENCONTRES D'ARLES INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL, HANDSOME SHOWCASE / ARLES, FRANCE, 2019 // GROUP SHOW
RED HOOK LABS, EMERGING TALENT // NEW YORK, USA, 2018 // GROUP SHOW
THEORY'S FLAGSHIP STORE // NEW YORK, USA, 2017 // GROUP SHOW
PDN'S 2017 EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHER AWARD