Alex Younger is a multidisciplinary artist who graduated Magna Cum Laude from Swarthmore College in 2012 and received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018.
She is a Gold Złoty Medal Laureate from the 16th International Tapestry Triennial and a Silver Medal winner from the 13th International Scythia Biennial. She has shown internationally and across the United States, including Chicago, New York City, Indianapolis, Portugal, Ukraine,
and Poland and her work is in the permanent collection of the Centralne Muzeum
Włókiennictwa w Łodzi. She currently teaches at Kent State University.

Artist Statement

My work begins and ends with language. I apply text as both content and composition,
examining the violent bureaucracy that underpins our cultural handling of sexual violence, using the inherent properties of my research, materials, and processes to achieve poetics through didacticism, stripping the language of its artifice of impartiality. These pieces bear witness to traumatic histories, mediating the relation between the literal representation of the object and the pain they signify, but can only indirectly portray. Hiding, erasing, or fracturing text through the intervention of image, material, or audience, the pieces highlight the construction and fragility of the narratives we build.