Posted by - Based in Los Angeles, Grant is a celebrated painter and multimedia artist whose works are included in museum collections around the world; she also founded charitable organisation GrantLove
- The pair met each other when she illustrated Reeves’ book Ode to Happiness in 2011, but it wasn’t until 2019 that they made things official on the red carpet, holding hands at Saint Laurent men’s show
Visual artist Alexandra Grant and Keanu Reeves first went public with their relationship during a red carpet appearance in 2019.
Grant herself is a celebrated painter and multimedia artist whose work has been exhibited in galleries in Los Angeles, Paris, New York and other cities. In addition to visual art, she also founded a charitable organisation that raises funds for arts-based non-profits.
Here’s everything you need to know about the Hollywood actor’s talented girlfriend.
Alexandra Grant is a visual artist whose work has been widely exhibited
According to her website, Grant is a visual artist who explores “the use of text and language in various media”, including “painting, drawing, sculpture, film and photography”. Grant’s art has been written about in publications like the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and Artforum.
The artist has exhibited her work at a variety of galleries and institutions, including ones in Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore and Paris. Several of her works are also included in museum collections around the world.
Per her website, Grant has won several awards, including a grant from the Pollock-Krasner foundation and the COLA individual artist fellowship. She has also worked with author Michael Joyce, artist Channing Hansen and philosopher Hélène Cixous, among others.
She founded a charitable organisation that helps fund arts-based non-profits
According to her website, in 2008, Grant founded the GrantLove project, “an artist-owned and operated project that produces and sells original artworks and editions to benefit artist projects and arts non-profits”.
She’s based in Los Angeles, but has lived all over the world
Grant is based in Los Angeles, but has also lived in several other countries throughout her life, including Mexico, France and Spain.
She can also apparently officiate weddings
According to an Instagram post of hers from August 2019, Grant officiated a wedding in Brooklyn Bridge Park. She also posted a photo of her clergy badge to Instagram earlier that month.
Alexandra Grant’s history with Keanu Reeves
Grant and Reeves are frequent collaborators and have reportedly been friends since 2011, when the artist illustrated Reeves’ book Ode to Happiness, published that year. She also illustrated his book Shadows in 2016.
Additionally, the duo co-founded X Artists’ Books in 2017, an art-book publishing house that aims to produce “thoughtful, high-quality, artist-centred books that fit within and between genres”.
After attending Art Basel together in 2016, Grant and Reeves attended numerous other public events together, including the launch of X Artists’ Books in 2017 and a benefit for the Moca in May. The duo even held hands while at the Saint Laurent men’s fashion show in Malibu in June 2019.
They keep their relationship largely under wraps
Since going public with their relationship status on the red carpet in 2019, the two have only appeared together publicly a handful of times, most recently in April 2023.
Neither Grant nor Reeves share a lot of intimate details about their romance in interviews, but their responses to occasional questions about it suggest that they’re in a happy, healthy and creatively fulfilling relationship.
They inspire one another creatively
Grant said building her career before meeting Reeves made it easier for her to share the spotlight. “The good news about falling in love as an adult is that I had built my own career by the time that my relationship had begun. I feel very confident in the relationship on the red carpet. I feel confident on it alone,” she told People.
Grant also praised Reeves’ creativity and said it inspires her own creative process: “What I love about Keanu and our exchange is that we’re pushing each other to build new roads. Seeing the other person’s problem-solving is inspiring, like, ‘Oh, well, OK, this one, that’s a cul-de-sac. How do I try this other thing?’”
She adds “He’s such an inspiration to me. He’s so creative, he’s so kind. He works so hard.”