BIO

Alexis Day is a Portland-based artist, originally from the coastal town of Bandon, Oregon. Using her background in psychology, she investigates the impact of perception and memory on individual and cultural identity. Day earned an MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2019, a BS in Art Practices from Portland State University in 2016, and a BS in Psychology from the University of Oregon in 2010. Recent exhibitions include Day’s solo show, Schemata: Dissonance and Distortion, at the Rose Center for the Arts (Longview, WA), Passages: Visual Stories of Liminal Places, Chehalem Cultural Center (Newberg, OR), and Putting it Together 2, at the Foundry (St. Charles, MO). In 2020 and 2022, Day was an artist-in-residence at the Studios of Mass MoCA (North Adams, MA). Elizabeth Leach Gallery began representing Day’s work in 2020.