Alexandra Grant: Age, Height, Net Worth & Life with Keanu Reeves (2026)

Alexandra Grant is an American visual artist, author and publisher based in Los Angeles. Born on April 4, 1973, in Ohio, she creates art that turns language and text into paintings, drawings, sculpture and video. She is also known as the long-time partner and creative collaborator of actor Keanu Reeves.

Alexandra Grant at the LACMA Art+Film Gala

Alexandra Grant – Profile

Full Name	Alexandra Annette Grant
Known As	Alexandra Grant
Profession	Visual Artist, Author, Publisher
Date of Birth	April 4, 1973
Age (2026)	53 years
Birthplace	Ohio, United States
Nationality	American
Residence	Los Angeles, California
Height	About 6 ft 0 in (1.84 m), reported
Net Worth	Around USD 1 million (estimated)
Partner	Keanu Reeves (public since 2019)
Children	None
Languages	English, Spanish, French
Education	BA, Swarthmore College (1995) MFA, California College of the Arts (2000)
Publishing House	X Artists’ Books (co-founder)

Who Is Alexandra Grant?

Alexandra Grant is a Los Angeles–based artist who works across painting, sculpture, drawing, installation and video. Her work explores how language shapes the way we communicate, read, translate and understand one another.

She is often described as a “radical collaborator” because much of her art begins with a text or a conversation with another writer or thinker. She has worked with novelist Michael Joyce, philosopher Hélène Cixous and actor Keanu Reeves, turning their words into visual art and installations inspired by linguistic theory.

Early Life and Education

Grant was born in Ohio in 1973. Her father, a geology professor from Scotland, had moved to Oberlin College in 1969. Her mother, an American political science professor, later worked as an educational administrator, a foreign service diplomat and a lecturer in Africa and the Middle East.

After her parents divorced, Grant grew up with her mother in Mexico City and attended a British international school. At 11 she spent a year at the Thomas Jefferson School in St. Louis, Missouri, and later studied at the International School of Paris. Living in Mexico, Europe and the Middle East, she learned English, Spanish and French.

She earned a BA in studio art and history from Swarthmore College (1995) and an MFA in painting and drawing from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco (2000).

Career and Artwork

Grant’s work investigates the writing process and ideas from linguistic theory. In 2015 she exhibited “Antigone 3000”, a painting inspired by the Greek play Antigone and its line “I was born to love, not to hate.” The same year she received the City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship, and the work was shown at the Barnsdall Art Center and later in LACMA’s “L.A. Exuberance” exhibition. With her sister Florence Grant, she also co-wrote the screenplay “Antigone Is Me”.

Teaching Experience

• Adjunct lecturer, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena (2009–2011)
• MFA class at Cal State Northridge (2010)
• Faculty, Pacific Northwest College of Art low-residency MFA (2013–2014)
• Co-taught a course at Ashesi University, Ghana (2015)
• MFA mentor, Syracuse University

Books and Films

Exhibitions and Awards

Awards, Fellowships and Residencies

• 2011 – California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists
• 2013 – Residency, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica
• 2015 – Residency, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha
• 2015 – COLA Individual Artists Fellowship, City of Los Angeles
• 2018 – Residency, SOMA, Mexico City
• 2019 – Visiting artist, Vermont Studio Center

Alexandra Grant and Keanu Reeves: Relationship Timeline

Grant and Reeves were friends and creative partners for about ten years before their relationship became public.

• 2009Grant and Reeves meet at a dinner party in Los Angeles.
• 2011They publish Ode to Happiness, a book Grant first made as a personal gift for Reeves.
• 2016They release Shadows, a photo-text book published by Steidl.
• 2017They co-found the publishing house X Artists’ Books.
• November 2019They go public as a couple at the LACMA Art + Film Gala.
• March 2020Grant speaks to Vogue about the attention, her work and her naturally grey hair.
• 2022Rare red-carpet appearance at the MOCA Gala and a theatre date in New York.
• 2023Reeves calls Grant “my honey” in an interview; the couple returns to the LACMA Gala four years after going public.
• 2026They continue to appear together; wedding rumours circulated in mid-2026 but nothing has been confirmed.

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