About
Georgia Saxelby is a Los Angeles-based artist working across sculpture, installation, and architectural intervention. Her practice constructs fragments of imagined worlds, proposing alternatives to the spaces, rituals, and beliefs that shape public life. She has built witch's huts, proposed redecorating Neoclassical façades, choreographed new rituals inside national monuments, and infiltrated national archives with a twenty-year time capsule of women's histories of resistance. Her work reveals that these structures are neither fixed nor inevitable, but open to reinvention.
Her recent work expands this investigation through glass, using the material as both sculpture and optical instrument. She creates spaces inhabited by mirages, where form is never fixed and images shapeshift, cultivating new ways of seeing that make new worlds imaginable.
Saxelby’s work has exhibited internationally, including at the Hirshhorn Museum, The Phillips Collection, Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building, American University Museum, and the Embassy of Australia, all in Washington, D.C.; Institute for Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh; Samstag Museum, Adelaide; Artspace, Sydney; and the 2022 Sydney Biennale Art After Dark program.
The artist’s work has been featured in Forbes, BBC News, Al Jazeera, and The Washington Post. Her exhibition Lullaby was named “Summer’s Best Gallery Show” by the Washington City Paper (2019), and she was named one of the “25 Change-Making Artists You Should Track” by The Clyde Fitch Report.
Saxelby is the recipient of the Marten Bequest Award, the Samstag Award, and three Creative Australia Grants. She has completed artist residencies at Pittsburgh Glass Center and Halcyon Arts Lab, and was a finalist in the New South Wales Visual Arts Fellowship.
She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University, where she received the university’s premier scholarship, and previously worked as an architectural writer at Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Studio Daniel Libeskind.
Saxelby has forthcoming artist residencies at Bullseye Glass Company and Urban Art Projects, and a forthcoming solo exhibition at Pittsburgh Glass Center.