Lexa Walsh is an artist, chef, cultural worker and experience maker. With a background in both sculpture and social practice, Walsh makes site specific projects, exhibitions, publications and objects, using an array of materials and employing social engagement, institutional critique, and radical hospitality. She creates platforms for interaction across hierarchies, representing multiple voices and inventing new ways of belonging. Walsh has exhibited and performed internationally for over 25 years at institutions large and small, and in public spaces.

Walsh’s upbringing as the youngest child of fifteen informs her work as does practicing collectivity while coming of age in the post punk cultural scene of the 1990’s. Walsh founded the experimental music and performance venue the Heinz Afterworld Lounge, worked for many years as a curator and administrator at CESTA, an international art center in Czech republic, and co-founded and conceived of the all women, all toy instrument ensemble Toychestra. She founded and organized Oakland Stock, the Oakland branch of the Sunday Soup network micro-granting dinner series that supports artists’ projects and the Bay Area Contemporary Arts Archive (BACAA). Her most recent large-scale works include a collaborative project with progressive nuns at Grand Central Art Center and a memorial to all lost from war at The Guardhouse at Fort Mason. She recently relocated from Oakland, CA to the Hudson Valley.