Lexi Hide (b. 1999) is a photographic artist born in Cape Town, South Africa. She completed her undergraduate degree in Motion Design before receiving an honours degree in Contemporary Art from Cape Town Creative Academy in 2023. She is currently completing her MFA in photography at Parsons School of Design in New York, where she is based.
Hide is ultimately interested in contradictions, dualisms and self-aware hypocrisy. She states that nothing that is only one thing is interesting to her. She uses staged narrative photography to explore predominantly the themes girlhood and memory with a playfully humorous and tragic approach. Hide feels she mainly looks to cinema and music for influence; following threads of interest that all end up leading back to one another, and hopes this permeates the feeling of her work.
Hide has been featured in numerous group shows both within South Africa and internationally. Notable exhibitions include: Try a Little Tenderness: Oath Magazine Cape Town in 2021, Imagenation Paris at Galerie Joseph Le Palais in 2022, Winter show at Everard Read Cape Town in 2024, Pingyao International Photography Festival 2024, the American Center of Photography, North Carolina in 2024 as well as Photoville 2025 in New York City. Hide presented a solo cubicle show titled Sugar for the Pill at Everard Read Cape Town in August 2024.
In early 2026, her work will be shown at Jaipur International Art Week in India, as well as at the PhotoVogue Festival in Milan, where she was selected as a finalist for the 2025 Women on Women Open Call.
Lexi is open to proposals for commissions, collaborations, features and exhibition.
For any of the above or to request a catalogue, please email hidelexi@gmail.com
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Press:
Dazed Magazine 2025
Carne Ossa 2024
Bubblegum Club 2022
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