Alexis Alleyne-Caputo is an anthropologist and award-winning commissioned interdisciplinary artist, photographer and filmmaker. A graduate of Goddard College, MFA, and New York University, MA, BS/MA, she received a Goddard College travel grant in 2017 to research decolonizing art institutions at Zurich University of the Arts in Switzerland.

Recent presentations are: 2022 artist residency, talk and film screening at the University of Miami, Black Portraitures VII: Play and Performance series at Rutgers University, the 2021 Museum Association of the Caribbean Conference: Cultivating Resilience in
Museums and Cultural Heritage Site, and the 2021 Association of African American Museums Conference (Sun, Soul, and Soil: Diaspora Blackness and Justice in Global Museums, Part II).

A former university professor, she has taught at the University of Miami, New World School of the Arts/Miami-Dade College, New York Film Academy-Miami Beach, Harlem School of the Arts, and has
served as an art consultant at Florida Memorial University.

She has created and presents work to illustrate women’s contributions to the arts and is a Dr. John Graham-Pole Scholar at the University of Florida (Center for Arts in Medicine), 2021, Better Selves Fellow (2020-22) and CATALYST Miami 2019-20 fellow. In 2016, she received the Artist Certificate of Appreciation from the Miami-Dade County Office of the Mayor and County Commissioners for her contribution to Miami-Dade arts and culture.