Martyna Alexander is a Detroit-based artist and designer whose work often compares the strange harmony of opposites like the strict and systematic to the expressive, organic, and spontaneous - oppositions that mirror the many tensions of her cultural multiplicity and modern life.

Originally, a designer working in corporate settings for over 10 years, she now uses her design tools to create abstract works of art to uncover the deeper connections felt to place and identity while examining the simplified structures of man-made systems as visual objects. As a designer, she’s worked with companies such as Apple, Floyd, Shinola, and Arcosanti, and as an artist she’s shown in Detroit, Spain, Tokyo and at fairs across the US. She was the artist in Residence at Almost Perfect, Tokyo in 2022, and Vermont Studio Center in 2024. 

She identifies with the fascination common among her generation for both positive tech and more traditional anti-tech activities and lifestyles, each expressed visually and as contradictions in her work. Her practice examines labor and how to use our time to healthfully survive in modern society in balance with the harsh contrasts of multiple cultures, ideologies, and identities.

She is an alumnus of the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art and Design, 2012.