Alexandra Kehayoglou

Alexandra Kehayoglou (born 1982) is an Argentine textile artist. She is best known for her large-scale carpets and tapestries reflecting natural landscapes, works which address the topic of climate change. She won the Konex Award from Argentina in 2022.

Biography Kehayoglou was born in 1982 in Buenos Aires, Argentina to a family of carpet-makers. Her grandparents immigrated from Isparta (present-day Turkey) in the 1920s, bringing with them their practice of making Ottoman-style rugs. Her grandmother founded a carpet-making company, El Espartano. Kehayoglou went on to incorporate the family tradition of carpet-making into her own artistic practice.

She grew up in a house in Argentina surrounded by a garden, a forest, a farm, and a river, which influenced her artistic interest in nature and the Argentine landscape.

She currently lives and works in Athens.

In 2017 she completed Santa Cruz River, titled after the Santa Cruz River in Argentina, for the National Gallery of Victoria Triennial. The river was the proposed site of two major hydroelectric dams.