Alex McClay graduated with her MFA in Studio Art in 2021 and makes prints, books, textiles, videos, and installations. She received her BFA in Photography and Sculpture from the University of Cincinnati in Ohio in 2014. She was a Core Fellow at Penland School of Craft in North Carolina from 2016-2018, where she studied printmaking, book arts and paper making. Her work has been included in multiple exhibitions across the United States, including Weston Art Gallery (Cincinnati, OH), ArtSpace (Raleigh, NC), Haggerty Gallery (Dallas TX), Robert C Williams Museum of Papermaking (Atlanta, GA), and Marcia Wood Gallery (Atlanta, GA).

McClay's research practice is multi-faceted. She has an interest in printmaking, book arts, and art publishing as a way to collaborate with and share the work of others. In her studio practice, she uses text, material, and the body to question and disrupt the power dynamics present in our most intimate and vulnerable spaces by creating and breaking down boundaries. Specifically, these intimate and vulnerable spaces include our minds, our bodies, and our homes.