About Alexa

Alexa Mazzarello is a Canadian lens-based artist and photographer specializing in portrait, documentary, and fine art photography. Since becoming a mother in 2021, her fine art practice has focused on matrescence—the profound transformation of becoming a mother. Her current body of work, Failure to Progress, is an intimate exploration of her birth experiences, combining found photographs, self-portraits, and textiles. With this body of work Alexa was the 2025 winner of PROJECT XO, a combined award through the School of Photographic Arts and the Ottawa Art Gallery. In the fall of 2025, Alexa had a solo show titled Failure to Progress at the Ottawa Art Gallery. Alexa’s work has been exhibited in Canada and the UK. She is an active member of Women Photograph and the 44.4 Mother/Artist Collective.

Alongside her artistic work, Alexa maintains a commercial and editorial photography practice. She is a regular contributor to The Globe and Mail and Maclean’s Magazine, and has had commissioned work published in Canadian Business Magazine, SERVIETTE Magazine, GRAY Magazine, and Montecristo Magazine, among many others.

Alexa lives in Ottawa, Canada with her two children, husband, and dog.