Our bodies emerged out of wombs that emerged out of wombs that emerged out of wombs

Alexandra Neuman is an interdisciplinary artist, tarot reader, and interfaith hospital chaplain based in Brooklyn, NY. Working at the intersection of performance and ritual, Neuman's artwork explores the mythological exile of feminine divinities and the radical potential of collective grief. She received a BFA in Visual Arts and Anthropology from Sam Fox School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA in Visual Arts and Speculative Design at University of California, San Diego. She is a past participant of the Arteles Residency in Haukijarvi, Finland, PRAKSIS Residency in Oslo, Norway, The Live-Art Ireland Residency, and the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin. Her works have shown at Anthology Film Archives, 601 Artspace, Nitehawk Cinema, Miriam Gallery, Museum of the Moving Image, Performance Space, and Museum of Sex. Her works have been featured in Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, I-D Italy, Sajetta Magazine, Sex & Psychedelics Magazine, Precog Magazine, and Cyberfeminism Index (Inventory Press). She is a Webby Award Honoree as well as a recipient of the Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS) grant at The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. Neuman published a book and tarot deck with Onomatopee Projects in Eindhoven, Netherlands. She is currently working as an associate chaplain at NYU Langone Hospital.

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‘i made a crocodile out of mud and mud made me out of crocodile’