Alexandra Zizmor

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Chicago-based artist Alexandra Zizmor creates portraits that explore the charged space between appearance and identity. Drawing inspiration from the graphic immediacy of Pop Art and Japanese woodblock prints, her paintings are defined by bold color, flattened space, decorative pattern, and decisive line. Her subjects, ranging from family and friends to imagined and mythic figures, inhabit a narrative world that is at once intimate and iconic. Her mask-like, enigmatic figures suggest how self-presentation can serve as both armor and performance.

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Zizmor’s artistic path grew out of a longstanding engagement with the art world as both a collector and student, interests she pursued alongside a corporate career. After earning an M.A. in Modern Art Connoisseurship from Christie’s Education in New York, she drew on that foundation to create work of her own. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in New York and Chicago. 

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