Alexandra Photopoulos is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work includes furniture-inspired sculpture, textile and embroidery based pieces, drawing, bookmaking and performative video work. With her BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard College and her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, she has exhibited work at the Carpenter Center in Cambridge, MA, the Eliot House art gallery, the Aidekman Center for the Arts, and the Boston Young Contemporaries show. She was awarded the David McCord prize for achievement in visual arts from Harvard College, as well as the John Finley Fellowship which funds a year of international travel. She used her fellowship to travel throughout Europe to examine the relics and reliquaries of saints.

Drawing on references to traditional craft, furniture, and medical illustration her work seeks to explore the thresholds between pathology and decoration, domestic comforts and abject fears, humor and pathos, material seduction and visceral unease.