About
A mercurial mixed-media artist, Alexa creates immersive video and sound installations that center complex Black , queer feminist experiences, environmental change and speculative world building.
Alexa Burrell is a multidisciplinary artist and composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work spans across video, sound, sculpture, photography, animation, and performance, and is informed by an Afro-futurist and hauntological aesthetic.
As a solo music project under the name LEXAGON, she blends field recordings, handmade instruments, clarinet, and vocals to create immersive, experimental soundscapes. Her music has been described as “ancient, sexy, and haunting” and delves into themes of ancestral trauma, memory, and intergenerational healing.
From 2016 to 2022, Burrell was a documentarian, designer, and performer with House/Full of Blackwomen, a ritual performance collective led by amara tabor-smith and Ellen Sebastian-Chang. She has created sound and visual installations for Bay Area theaters such as Audium Theater of Sound, Stanford University, Dance Mission Theater, ODC, and Joe Goode Performance Group, and has exhibited her artwork at Kala Art Institute, The Luggage Store Gallery, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), SOMarts and Gray Area.
Burrell was awarded the 2018 Soundwave Festival “Buzz Award” for innovation in music, the 2018 Alternative Exposure Grant, and was nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Visual Design. She has participated in artist residencies at Audium Theater of Sound, Kala Art Institute, Montalvo Arts Center, and Paul Dresher Studios. Currently, she is pursuing her MFA in Art Practice at Stanford University, with an anticipated graduation in 2026.
