Alex Younger

Alex Younger was born in Oakland, California and raised in the Capital District of New York State. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Swarthmore College in 2012 with an Honors Major in English Literature with an emphasis on gender tropes in Shakespearean and contemporary American literature and a Course Major/Honors Minor in Studio Art, concentrating in photography. She became a sexual assault activist in 2015 after the college adjudication of her case resulted in a punishment of 10 days of probation. In 2018, she received her MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a Gold Złoty Medal Laureate from the 16th International Tapestry Triennial and a Silver Medal winner from the 13th International Scythia Biennial and her work has been shown internationally and across the United States, including Chicago, New York City, St Louis, Portugal, Ukraine, and Poland. She has been awarded residencies with ACRE Projects, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, the Studios at MASS MoCA, and Byrdcliffe Arts Colony and has received an Integrity: Arts & Culture Association Mini-Grant and the Trabue Women’s Professional Arts Grant. She has previously taught through the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College and is currently an Adjunct Instructor with the Craft and Material Studies and Arts Foundation departments at Virginia Commonwealth University.