LEXI HIDE
(b. 1999 Cape Town, South Africa)

Lexi Hide is a photographic artist born in Cape Town, South Africa. She completed her undergraduate degree in Motion Design before receiving an honours degree in Contemporary Art from Cape Town Creative Academy in 2023. She is currently based in New York where she is pursuing an MFA in photography at Parsons, the New School for Design. Hide is interested in contradictions, dualisms and self-aware hypocrisy. Nothing that is only one thing is interesting to her. She uses staged narrative photography to explore the themes of girlhood and memory with a playfully humorous and tragic approach. Hide looks to cinema and music for inspiration, following threads of interest that all end up leading back to one another.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024   Sugar for the Pill, Cubicle Series, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2023   Sugar for the Pill, Graduate Show, Cape Town Creative Academy, Cape Town, South Africa

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024   Winter, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2023   The Fourth: Got Junk Vol. III: Goldfingers, Cape Town, South Africa

   Electricity independent exhibition: Berlin, Germany

2022   Imagination Paris: Just Women, Galerie Joseph Le Palais, Paris, France

2021   Oath Magazine launch: Try A Little Tenderness, Cape Town, South Africa

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2024   Please, present yourself: Lexi Hide, Carne Ossa, Marco Frattulo.

2022   Lexi Hide // nurturing nature and naivety, Bubblegum Club, Casey Delport.

UPCOMING FESTIVALS

 2024   Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China

EDUCATION

2024   Masters in Fine Art Photography, Parsons, The New School for Design, New York, USA.

2023   Honors in Contemporary Arts, Cape Town Creative Academy, Cape Town, South Africa

2021   Bachelor of Arts in Motion Design, Cape Town Creative Academy, Cape Town, South Africa