Alex Arzt  |  2026 November
Mi Casita, Tres Piedras

Alex Arzt is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and gardener based in Oakland, California. Her collaborative, research-driven, place-based practice moves across artist books, essays, installation, lectures, interactive objects, and living material processes. Through long engagements with landscapes, archives, plants, and overlooked histories, she creates work that traces how human intervention, migration, and time reshape ecologies and produce new forms of relation and belonging. She runs A Magic Mountain, a Risograph press publishing artist books and zines, with publications held in the collections of Stanford, the Getty Research Institute, and SFMOMA. From 2018 to 2022, she was an Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts and has received grants from the Puffin Foundation and the East Bay Community Foundation. She earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her residencies include Ucross, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, among others. From 2015 to 2023, she taught at UC Davis, UC Berkeley, SFAI, and VCU, and she currently works as a grant writer for the arts.