Alex Kostiw

Chicago, Illinois

Alex Kostiw is an artist, graphic designer, and educator. She makes books and works on paper that explore liminal spaces in communication—gaps where intention and imagination meet. Rooted in design, printmaking, and literary criticism, her works experiment with poetic and reimagined text and image, visual structures of comics, and conceptually driven forms. Through sparse narratives and imagery, they involve the reader in the process of storytelling as a means to interpret reality, relationships, and the self.

Alex’s work has been in expos internationally and is collected in the Joan Flasch Artist’s Book Collection, Chicago Zine Collection at the University of Chicago Library, Zine and Comics Collection at the MassArt Library, Decker Library at MICA, and National Museum of Women in the Arts, among others. She holds a BA in English literature from the University of Chicago and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she teaches visual communication design.