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, and the Winter Show at Everard Read Cape Town in 2024. Her work has also been shown at Pingyao International Photography Festival and the American Center of Photography, North Carolina, both in 2024, Photoville New York City in 2025, and Training Terrain at Demo Projects in Cape Town in 2025. Hide presented a solo cubicle show titled Sugar for the Pill at Everard Read Cape Town in August 2024.
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 by Women in Seoul, Oracle in the Aperture at the Lightwork Foundation in Syracuse, and the Everard Read Autumn Show. Upcoming, her work will be presented at the Kolga Tbilisi International Photography Festival, Girls! Girls! Girls! at Everard Read Circa in Cape Town, and Photoville in New York City.
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:
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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