FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 2025

Artist Michelle Alexander announces forthcoming art book with Artsin Square

Walked On. 2022, digital image / still from video documentation, 16 x 24 in.

Chicago, IL – Artist Michelle Alexander announces her forthcoming art book featuring selected works from 2020-present, to be published by Artsin Square in 2025.

The publication will include 25 artworks and an exclusive interview on Michelle’s personal background, process, materials, and conceptual foundations. This book provides an in-depth look into Michelle’s ongoing investigations surrounding the body, presenting new works from Michelle’s recent exhibitions at Ivory Gate Gallery and Matthew Heberlain Contemporary in Chicago alongside pieces from her 2024 series Censored With Lights, Experiences of the Flesh (2023), and Anxious Narcissism (2022). Recurring motifs such as skin, stains, dolls, self-portraiture, and censorship unfold a narrative about the human body—fragmented and reassembled as object—which highlights the unrealistic universal pressures placed upon it. Photos of Barbies wearing reconstructed Covid masks as dresses from 2020 and a ghostly 2021 installation mimicking a retail clothing display entitled One Size Fits All speak to themes in later works, like those in Michelle’s 2025 show Connective Threads, in which she hung “a nightmarish wedding dress of her own making—think staples, visible black threads, lots of glue—next to elegant photographs of its inspiration, the dresses worn by her mother and sister on their wedding days” (as described by Lori Waxman in The Chicago Reader). 

Michelle Alexander was selected for publishing through Artsin Square’s Artist Book Program, a collaborative initiative where their team works with artists to design books uniquely tailored to reflect the artist’s journey and vision. The 40-page book will be available for purchase on Artsin Square’s online bookstore and can be shipped worldwide, with global promotion across Artsin Square’s website, newsletter, and social media channels.

About Michelle Alexander

Michelle is a Canadian-born artist living and working between Montreal and Chicago. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Miami, then studied fashion design at Parsons School of Design, earning an Associates’ degree in Applied Science. Michelle graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a Master of Fine Arts Degree.

Michelle Alexander’s interdisciplinary practice grapples with experiences of the body and the discomfort of fitting into one’s own skin by trying to find a rational way through the irrational. She sees and uses materials as the body, as the skin, and as the connections between our inside and outside worlds. She processes through process. In her artworks, questions are asked but answers are not given.

Michelle’s work has been exhibited at galleries including Mathew Heberlein Contemporary (Chicago), Ivory Gate Gallery (Chicago), Woman Made Gallery (Chicago), Cipriarte Gallery (Venice, IT), Mana Contemporary (Chicago), The Current (Stowe, VT), and the Design Museum of Chicago. Most recently, she has been featured and reviewed in Chicago Reader, Femme Art Review, Block Club Chicago, Whitehot Magazine, and elsewhere. 

Website: https://www.michellealexanderart.com 
Instagram: @michelle.alexander.art

About Artsin Square

Artsin Square is an independent, artist-run, and ad-free international platform dedicated to supporting emerging and mid-career artists worldwide since 2019. Through a variety of initiatives including an international print magazine, online exhibitions, and grant programs, they provide artists with opportunities to showcase their work and connect with a global network of over 100,000 art enthusiasts, curators, and collectors. Today, Artsin Square is recognized as one of the most active and widely visited artist-run platforms, with a growing international audience and community. They believe that every artist has a unique voice, and their mission is to amplify those voices by creating accessible, inclusive, and thoughtfully curated spaces—both online and in print—where creativity can grow, be seen, and celebrated. 

Website: https://artsinsquare.com/ 
Instagram: @artsinsquare