Alexa Markantonatos is a Johannesburg-based tattoo artist, printmaker and painter. Their studio practice inspects geopolitics embedded in the semiotics of maps through an understanding of landscape ideology. Alexa graduated in 2022 with a Bachelors degree in Visual Art at the University of Johannesburg. They continued their honours degree in the same field part-time in 2023 whilst doing an apprenticeship. Upon finishing their degree and apprenticeship in 2024, Alexa has been working through a tattoo studio in Linden.
×Alexa Markantonatos is a Johannesburg-based tattoo artist, printmaker and painter. Their studio practice inspects geopolitics embedded in the semiotics of maps through an understanding of landscape ideology. Alexa graduated in 2022 with a Bachelors degree in Visual Art at the University of Johannesburg. They continued their honours degree in the same field part-time in 2023 whilst doing an apprenticeship. Upon finishing their degree and apprenticeship in 2024, Alexa has been working through a tattoo studio in Linden.
