Hi I’m Martyna, a Detroit-based artist and designer. I work in a diverse range of projects in a fine art practice that sometimes include graphic design work, drawing, and collaborating with various institutions, brands, publications and persons.
Originally, a designer working in corporate settings for over 10 years, I now use my design experience to create abstract works of art to uncover the deeper connections felt to place and identity while examining the simplified structures of man-made systems as visual objects. As a designer, I’ve worked with companies such as Apple, Floyd, Shinola, and Arcosanti, and as an artist, I’ve shown in various locations including Detroit, Chicago, Spain, Tokyo and at fairs across the US.
I identify with the fascination common among my generation for both positive tech and more traditional anti-tech activities and lifestyles, each expressed visually and as contradictions in my work. My practices examine labor and how to use our time to healthfully survive in modern society in balance with the harsh contrasts of multiple cultures, ideologies, and identities.
Select Solo Shows
2025 ‘The DIstant Now’, Old Friends, Chicago IL
2024 ‘Courts’, Playground, Detroit MI
2022 ‘Tokyo Series’, Almost Perfect Tokyo, Tokyo, JP
2022 ‘Fields’, Playground, Detroit MI
Select Group Shows
2025 ‘Female Gaze’, Playground, Detroit MI
2024 ‘Detroit <> Tokyo’, New Space, Tokyo JP
2023 ‘Beta’, Art Clvb, New Lab, Detroit MI
2023 ‘Reveries’, Galeria Azur, Madrid Spain
2021 ‘The Grandeur of Color’, Modern Visual Arts Gallery, Bethlehem PA
2020 ‘Small Works’, Playground, Detroit MI
Select Fairs
2025 ‘Season Fair’, Michigan Central, Detroit MI
2024 ‘Art Fair | Detroit’ Art Clvb Art Fair, NewLab, Detroit MI
2024 ‘Foundations’ Virtual Fair Arsty, Playground, Detroit MI\
2023 The Affordable Art Fair, Arbor3 Arts Gallery, Metropolitan Pavillion, NY
2022 The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn Navy Pier, NY
Articles & Interviews
2025 The Atmosphere of Seeing: A Review of Martyna Alexander at Old Friends
2024 Sport In.Art Feature “Behavioral Patterns and the Aesthetics of Space: The Art of Martyna Alexander”
2024 Plume Magazine Feature “Dichotomy_
2022 SEEN Magazine Artist feature, June Art & Wine Issue
Publications
2022 409 Catalog
2025 New American Painting No. 173, Midwest Issue
Artist Residencies
2024 Vermont Studio Center Johnson VT
2022 Almost Perfect Tokyo JP
2014 ArtFunkl Manchester UK
