Alexandria Douziech explores plants as storytellers—living archives of colonial history, migration, and resilience. Her mother was born on a sugarcane plantation in Guyana and raised by her great-grandmother, a cane cutter; her father grew up on a Canadian canola farm, driving two-ton combines by the age of twelve. Drawing from her family’s agricultural history, Alexandria’s installations, sculptures, and community-based projects examine the intersections of land, labor, and exploitation within postcolonial and diasporic contexts.
Through materially focused, research-driven works, Alexandria tells stories of survival—foregrounding “invisible” forms of labor and honoring cultural knowledge systems that persist despite centuries of displacement and erasure. Her work reflects on the layered trauma and beauty of history, revealing how the past continues to shape the present.
Alexandria holds an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in Painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her projects have been exhibited nationally, including solo shows at Los Angeles Valley College Art Gallery (2024), Blue Roof Studios (2023), and UCLA’s Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden (2021). Her work has been supported by the California Arts Council, the Puffin Foundation, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
Alongside her artistic practice, Alexandria has worked extensively in arts education. She has held roles with the California African American Museum, the Underground Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), where she oversaw adult education and launched new community programs. She has also taught art history at AMDA College of Performing Arts in Hollywood, California.
In 2020, Alexandria founded the Center for Plants & Culture, a BIPOC-centered educational platform (plantsandculture.org, @plant.and.culture). The initiative examines how politics, economics, and culture are shaped by plants, highlighting underrepresented narratives and histories often excluded from Western botanical discourse.