Alexandria Smith is a mixed media visual artist based in London and New York; she is currently Head of Painting at the Royal College of Art in London. She earned her BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University; MA in Art Education from New York University; and MFA in Fine Arts from The New School for Design. She is the recipient of the Queens Museum/Jerome Foundation Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Grant, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship, the Virginia A. Myers Fellowship at the University of Iowa and the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship. Recent exhibitions include solo exhibits at Gagosian and Currier Museum as well as group shows at Tiwani Contemporary and Lisson Gallery.