Who Exactly Is Keanu Reeves’s Rumored Artist Girlfriend? We Did Some Digging to Find Out

Keanu Reeves, the action hero
with a heart of gold, ignited a media frenzy over the weekend when
he stepped onto the red carpet at LACMA’s Art + Film Gala holding
hands with the Los Angeles-based artist Alexandra
Grant. 

So who is the woman who captured the heart of the
internet’s boyfriend, and who may be responsible for pulling Reeves
out of his despondent, sandwich-gazing “lonely guy” phase? The
truth is that while she got a hefty dose of online amplification
these past few days, she’s been a part of the art world for
years.

After graduating from Swarthmore
College, she went on to get an MFA at the Bay Area-based California
College of Arts and Crafts. From there she began exhibiting at
galleries around California, at places like Honor Fraser, Night
Gallery, and Lowell Ryan Projects, and has also had her text-based
work featured in group shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art in
Los Angeles and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

She is known for collaborations
and has worked with author Michael Joyce on
colorful text paintings, and French feminist philosopher Hélène
Cixous on a collaborative, participatory, multi-part art
installation, Forêt
Intérieure/Interior Forest.

She has been seen at LAXART
events, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and various auction
benefits. We have also spotted her in the company of other
art-world figures including Brenna Youngblood, Derek Blasberg, and
Dustin Yellin. 

She and Reeves have
been collaborating for
at least a decade: Grant added some sad New Yorker-style cartoon illustrations to Keanu’s
lamentation-filled book, Ode to Happiness. The pair published it as a limited-edition
artist book after an intensive, week-long printing process at the
famed Steidl press in Germany.

Speaking to
W last year, Grant and Reeves were endearingly in
sync, and Keanu mused about “that collision of RGB and
CMYK.” 

The second book the two
collaborated on is called Shadows. (Now out of print, it was priced at a hefty
€198). It features images by Grant of Reeves in his off-time while
shooting John Wick. The book has moodily lit images of his
silhouette as he arches his back, splays his fingers, and even
engages in some judo-esque movements, juxtaposed with spare phrases
printed on the opposite page. (It’s very serious.)

In 2017, the two made their professional relationship official
by establishing X Artists’ Books, a small
press. Books, according to the press, “bring sustenance and
shift realities. They may occasionally break your heart… X is a
connection, a multiplier, a kiss, a proxy… it stands for treasure,
uncharted territory, the core of infinity… X marks the spot.”

Below, find a selection of Grant’s solo work, and excerpts from
her collaborations with Reeves:

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