Alexis Kyle Mitchell is an artist and scholar based between New York and Glasgow. Her work has circulated internationally, including in exhibitions at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Kunstverein Munich; and Mercer Union, Toronto; in screenings at International Film Festival Rotterdam; Art of the Real, New York; and IndieLisboa International Film Festival, Lisbon; in lecture-performances at University of Toronto and the New School, New York, and residencies at Cove Park (Scotland); MacDowell (USA); Sommerakademie Paul Klee (Switzerland); and Akademie Schloss Solitude (Germany). Mitchell often works collaboratively, most frequently with Sharlene Bamboat — the duo recently launched the web project Before Law. Mitchell was a postdoctoral fellow at New York University in the Center for Disability Studies and is currently a visiting scholar in the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Her first experimental feature film titled The Treasury of Human Inheritance, will be featured in Glasgow International Biennial 2024 and GTA24 MOCA Triennial (Toronto).

EDUCATION
PhD (Human Geography & Sexual Diversity Studies) // University of Toronto 2013-2018
M.F.A (Film and Video Production) // York University 2008 – 2010
B.A. Film & Performance // Queen’s University // 2002 - 2006

RESIDENCIES AND COMMISSIONS
Cove Park Moving Image Residency // Cove Park, Scotland, Summer 2020
CCA Creative Lab Residency // Glasgow, UK, January 2020
Darling Foundry // Resident, Summer 2019
MacDowell Art Colony // Resident, Spring 2018
Sommerakademie Paul Klee // Fellow, 2017-2019
Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship & Residency (Bambitchell) // April - August 2016

SELECTED SCREENINGS AND EXHIBITIONS
2024
The Treasury…(Circuits) (performance w/ Luke Fowler) // GTA24 Triennial, Toronto, June
The Treasury of Human Inheritance (film) // GTA24 Triennial, Toronto, June
The Treasury of Human Inheritance (film installation) // Glasgow International Biennial, June
The Treasury of Human Inheritance (film) // Prismatic Ground, New York, May
The Treasury of Human Inheritance (film) // European Media Arts Festival, Germany, April
Screening and Lecture // NYU // Center for Disability Studies // NYC, March 2024
Bugs & Beasts Before the Law // Group Exhibition // The Polygon, Vancouver, BC, January

2022-23
Featured Filmmaker // The Flaherty Film Seminar // Saratoga Springs, NY, June
Bugs & Beasts & Other Bodies // The New School // New York, NY, April
The Treasury: Performance Lecture // MVS Speaker Series University of Toronto // March
Before Law (Website Launch) // Mercer Union // Toronto, Canada // December 2022

2021
The Horse Hospital // Bugs & Beasts Before the Law // London, UK, November 26, 2021
Kunstverein Munich // Bugs & Beasts Before the Law // Munich, DE, Oct - Dec 2021
Onion City Experimental Film & Video Festival // Bugs & Beasts // Chicago, IL, June 2021
Henry Art Gallery // Dolphins, Ships and Other Vessels // Online, March 2021
Henry Art Gallery // Bugs & Beasts (Solo Exhibition) // Seattle, US, Jan - May 2021

2020
Henry Art Gallery // Bugs and Beasts (Solo Exhibition) // Seattle, US, August - April 2021
Kassel DokFest // Bugs and Beasts Before the Law // Kassel, Germany, November 2020
La Casa Encendida // Bugs and Beasts // Madrid, Spain, November
Cámara Lúcida Film Festival // Bugs and Beasts // Cuenca, Ecuador, November
Curtocircuíto International Film Festival // Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, October
IndieLisboa International Film Festival // Bugs and Beasts // Lisbon, PT, August
European Media Arts Festival // Bugs and Beasts // Osnabrück, DE, May
Vilnius International Film Festival // Bugs and Beasts // Vilnius, LT, March
International Film Festival Rotterdam // Bugs and Beasts // Rotterdam, NL, January

2019
RIDM Festival // Bugs and Beasts // Montreal, QC, November
Dazibao // Special Works School (Solo Exhibition) // Montreal, QC, November – December
Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema // The Break // Paris, FR, October
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival // Bugs and Beasts // Northhumberland, UK, September
Mercer Union // Bugs and Beasts Before the Law (Solo Exhibition) // Toronto, ON, Sept - Nov
La Cinémathèque Française// Stealth // Paris, FR, June
Grande Palais // BLOCC web launch // Bern, CH, April
CCA Glasgow & LUX Scotland // Specia Works School // Glasgow, SCT, April

2018
Anthology Film Archives // Stealth // New York, November
Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival // Special Works School // November
BFI London Film Festival // Special Works School // London, UK, October
Videomedeja // Special Works School // Novi Sad, Serbia, August
Union Docs // Special Works School // Brooklyn, New York, May
MIX NYC // Gabey and Mike // New York, New York, March
AKA Gallery // Silent Citizen (Solo Exhibition) / Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, March
Berlinale - Forum Expanded // Special Works School // Berlin, February
Gallery TPW // Special Works School (Solo Exhibition) // Toronto, January

PUBLICATIONS
Bugs & Beasts Before the Law: Appendix A - L // Artist Book produced by Henry Art Gallery
Digital Lives in the Global City: Contesting Infrastructures // Eds. Deborah Cowen, Alexis Mitchell, Emily Paradis, Brett Story // UBC Press, Fall 2020
Queer at Summer Camp // “Nation-Bonding” // Eds. Kenneth Kidd, Derrett Mason // Fordham University Press, May 2019
Contemporary Citizenship, Art, and Visual Culture // “Sounding Citizenship” // Eds. Corey Dzenko and Theresa Avila // Routledge Press, 2017
Scapegoat: Landscape, Architecture, Political Economy // “Bunk Buddies” // Winter 2015
Los Angeles Review of Books // “Empire Symbol” // Spring 2015

CRITICAL WRITING & REVIEWS
Article // Art Papers // An Eye for An Eye—Bambitchell’s Bugs and Beasts Before the Law by Daniella Sanader, Fall 2021
Review // Canadian Art // Bambitchell – Bugs and Beasts Before the Law // Nov 13, 2019 Review // Hyperallergic // Reimagining Cinema from Nature’s Perspective // Oct 14, 2019 Critics’ Pick // Artforum // Bambitchell by Steffanie Ling // October 2019
Review // The Brooklyn Rail // Bambitchell: Bugs and Beasts Before the Law // Oct 2019 Review // MAP Magazine // Against dialogue, or, we need to sing to mountains // Oct 2019 Critical Essay // The Senses and Society Journal 14:1 // Surveillance is Meta: Bambitchell Special Works School // by Erica Cristobal, 2019
Essay // Art & Education // Adaptable Platforms: SPK- BLOCC // by Aoife Rosenmeyer, 2018
Review // Canadian Arts // Bambitchell’s Surveillance Romance, Februrary 2018

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS
Screening and Lecture // The New School - Decolonizing Documentary // NYC, April 2023
Lecture // Master of Visual Studies, University of Toronto // Toronto, March 2023
Course Lecture // NYU // Arts and the Politics of Resistance // New York, Nov 2021
External Examiner Thesis Defence // Sandberg Instituut // Amsterdam, NT, February 2021
Lecture // Sandberg Instituut // Amsterdam, NT, November 2020
Artist Talk // Mercer Union // Toronto, Canada, September 2019
Artist Talk // CCA Glasgow // Glasgow, SCT, April 2019
Artist Talk // Gallery TPW // Toronto, Ontario, January 2018

COLLECTIONS
University of Pittsburgh // New York University // Collectif Jeune Cinema // McGill University // Wilfrid Laurier University // Deborah Cowen Private Collection // University of British Columbia // OCADU // University of Leeds // Bildwechsel Archives Hamburg // York University // Seneca College // Toronto Metropolitan University // University of Toronto