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. Her first experimental feature film titled The Treasury of Human Inheritance, was recently featured in Glasgow International Biennial 2024 and GTA24 MOCA Triennial (Toronto). She had a solo exhibition at Peer Gallery in London in 2025.
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 in Scotland, MacDowell, Sommerakademie Paul Klee in Switzerland, and Akademie Schloss Solitude in 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.
She often works collaboratively alongside artist Sharlene Bamboat under the name Bambitchell. They were in residence together at MacDowell in 2018 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 and completed a version of their written script for the film as well.
At MacDowell in 2025, Mitchell worked on a new body of work based on research she brought with her to MacDowell, which included shooting 16mm footage on a Bolex in Nef Studio and around the grounds (which included a number of Fellows as performers). She worked on developing this film in the dark room using natural, alternative film processing and spent a lot of time experimenting with the enlargers and printing images also using this alternative and natural process.
