Alex Mikev is an interdisciplinary artist whose artwork explores themes of contemporary work and labor experiences, with specific interests in the concepts of meaningful work, auto-exploitation, and free time. Mikev references efforts of the individual within absurd circumstances of the everyday, describing the limits of the body, performance of socially constructed behaviors, and transactions between the individual and their environment. Through drawing, printmaking, video, and installation, Mikev’s work takes form as performances of repetition, evidence of cumulative labor, and the erasure of visual information that reframes familiar subjects.
Mikev is currently a Graduate Fellow at University of Wisconsin-Madison, completing the Master of Fine Art program in Studio Art. He has exhibited work at The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Hamiltonian Gallery in Washington D.C., the Indianapolis Arts Center in Indianapolis, IN, Kai Lin Art in Atlanta, GA, and the Salmagundi Art Club in New York.