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. In 2026, she completed 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 2023. Her work has also been shown at Pingyao International Photography Festival and the American Center of Photography, North Carolina, both in 2024, Training Terrain at Demo Projects in Cape Town in 2025, and Photoville New York City in both 2025 and 2026. Hide presented a solo cubicle show titled Sugar for the Pill at Everard Read Cape Town in August 2024. Her work has been physically published in Doxy Magazine Issue 3, Bias Cut Magazine, group book publications by Soft Publishing and Lyricalmyrical Books, and online in Dazed magazine in 2025 and on PhotoVogue in 2026.
In 2026, her work has been included in Jaipur International Art Week in India, the PhotoVogue Festival in Milan — where she was selected as a finalist for the 2025 Women on Women Open Call — Women on Women in Seoul, Oracle in the Aperture at the Lightwork Foundation in Syracuse, the Photographic Exploration Project in Berlin, Luishi International Photography Festival in China, Artphellian in Switzerland, Girls! Girls! Girls! gallery in Cape Town, Once Again, Many Times More at Gallery MC in New York City, the Kolga Tbilisi International Photography Festival in Georgia, and numerous group shows at Everard Read in both Cape Town and Franschhoek over the years.
Lexi is open to proposals for commissions, collaborations, features and exhibition.
For any of the above or to request a catalogue for print sales, please email hidelexi@gmail.com or faith@everard.co.za
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Press:
Photovogue 2026
Independent Magazine 2026
Dazed Magazine 2025
Carne Ossa 2024
Bubblegum Club 2022
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For a full list of exhibitions, publications, awards and clients: Download CV
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