Alexis Kyle Mitchell is an artist and scholar based between New York and Glasgow. Her projects make use of the concepts of space and place, to reconfigure relationships to memory, politics, and acts of belonging. She often works collaboratively alongside artist Sharlene Bamboat under the name Bambitchell. They were in residence together at MacDowell to work on an experimental film exploring the history of the Medieval Animal Trials - where animals were tried in a court of law. The duo completed a rough edit of their film while in residence in 2018 and completed a version of their written script for the film as well.
Her work has circulated internationally, including in exhibitions at the Henry Art Gallery, Kunstverein Munich, and Mercer Union; in screenings at International Film Festival Rotterdam, London Film Festival, and IndieLisboa International Film Festival; in lecture-performances at University of Toronto and the New School in New York; and she has held residencies at Cove Park (Scotland), MacDowell, Sommerakademie Paul Klee (Switzerland), and Akademie Schloss Solitude (Germany). Mitchell holds a Ph.D. in Human Geography at the University of Toronto where she held a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship. 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, The Treasury of Human Inheritance, was recently featured in Glasgow International Biennial 2024 and GTA24 MOCA Triennial (Toronto). She has an upcoming solo exhibition at Peer Gallery (London).
