Alex Morante (b.1994, USA) is a London-based artist currently in residence at the Tracey Emin Foundation Victoria House in Margate. Her figurative ceramic sculptures depict distorted beasts and bodies drawn from her subconscious and from the dark imagery found within mythology, science fiction, and religious iconography. Her sculptures hold fear, anxiety, and vulnerability, with the grotesque and the abject serving as central references.

A diagnosis of chronic illness has further shaped her practice, creating a heightened awareness of fragility and instability experienced within both the internal and external world, while influencing the forms she creates and methods of making. She builds complex surfaces using oxides layered with crystalline and crater glazes, evoking mould, lichen, rust, and verdigris. Kiln and chemistry function as collaborators; the unpredictable nature of ceramic processes becomes a way of manifesting psychological and physical states directly on the form, embedding experiences of deterioration, transformation, and endurance within the material.

Email: contact@alexmorante.com

Instagram: @slipslob

CV

Education
2025 : Central Saint Martins — BA (Hons) Ceramic Design (First Class) & Diploma in Professional Studies
2021 : Mercer County Community College — Associate in Fine Arts

Residencies & Awards
2026 : Victoria House Residency. Tracey Emin Foundation. Margate, UK.
2026 : Mawddach Graduate Residency Award. Wales, UK.
2023 : Jenny Walton Masters Award
2020 : Mel Leipzig Fine Arts Scholarship

Exhibitions
2026 : Feast of Fools. Groucho Club. London, UK
2026 : Like a Kite, Without a Breeze. Kavel Rafferty. Margate, UK
2026 : Sugar, We’re Going Down (duo show with Enrique López Llamas). TKE Studios. Margate, UK.
2026 : The Society of Women Artists Graduate and Student Exhibition. London, UK.
2025 : The Recent Graduates Exhibition. Affordable Art Fair. London, UK.
2025 : CSM BACD Graduate Show, UAL: Central Saint Martins. London, UK.
2023 : Straight Out the Ground. UAL: Central Saint Martins. London, UK.
2022 : Design Transforms Borders, NYCxDesign Week, Brooklyn, USA.
2021 : Mercer County Artists Juried Exhibition. Mercer County Community College. West Windsor, USA.
2021 : The MCCC: West Windsor Campus Gallery Student Exhibition. West Windsor, USA.
2018 : Findlay & Morante: Selected Works. Studio 16 Pop-Up. Trenton, USA.
2017 : Deviant Philly Presents: Oracle. Bottle Bar East. Philadelphia, USA.
2017 : Nobody Likes You When You're 23. Pop-Up Gallery. Cleveland, USA.

Collections
2025 : UAL Archives and Special Collections Centre. London, UK.
2021 : MCCC West Windsor Campus Gallery. West Windsor, USA.