About the Artist

Using rich color, layered surfaces, and expressive gesture, Alexandra Bailliere creates paintings that move between observation and abstraction. Inspired by the raw quality of the landscape, her work focuses on the overlooked, the incongruous, and the places where unexpected beauty appears.

BIO

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Alexandra Bailliere is a native of Baltimore, Maryland. Her early exposure to art began at age 10 with Saturday morning charcoal still-life drawing lessons. A year later, her progressive parents enrolled her in a figure drawing course at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where, at just 11 years old, she found herself drawing an unclothed couple. Alexandra graduated cum laude from Duke University, completed a post-baccalaureate certificate in Art and Design at UC Berkeley, and earned her MFA from Mills College.

Bailliere has recently had her first solo exhibition with Hang Gallery in San Francisco. She has exhibited in group presentations at the Berkeley Art Museum, the Mills College Art Museum, Root Division, and with Hang Gallery. Recent art fair presentations include Art Miami (2025), and the San Francisco Art Fair (2025, 2026) with Hang Gallery. In 2016, she was a finalist for a Headlands Center of the Arts residency, and in 2018, she was awarded a parent-artist residency at the Palo Alto Art Center. She will be an artist in residence at the Burren College of Art in Ireland in summer 2027.

In addition to sustaining an active studio practice, Bailliere is an Adjunct Professor in the Fine Arts and Media Arts department of Contra Costa College in Richmond, California.

Bailliere's work is included in numerous private collections and the following corporate collections:

2 Bay Area-based Healthcare Facilities (10 paintings)
Brown Advisory
Chicken and Egg Pictures
Citizens Bank
Freshfields Law Offices of San Francisco
Green17 Design corporate offices
Mayo Clinic (Integrated Oncology Building, Jacksonville, Florida) (3 paintings)
among others.

Bailliere's work is represented by Hang Art in San Francisco. Please direct inquiries to info@hangart.com.