Lexie Owen / pillowfort press

Lexie Owen is a interdisciplinary Canadian artist living and working in Norway who self-publishes artist books, zines and other printed ephemera, focusing primarily on risograph printing. Her publications are often an extension of her broader artistic practice, exploring questions of intimacy and care, collectivity and the boundaries of the self. Their content, form and method of production varies, spanning both the textual and visual, the individual and collective.

Lexie works both independently, and as part of an artistic duo with Annike Flo. Her current solo research address questions of archival omissions, focusing on queer and feminist histories connected to the rural and suburban. With Flo she is developing an extensive body of research into death cultures and the afterlives of bodies. This long-term project troubles the binary between life and death, seeking ways of mourning and remembrance that acknowledge decomposition as an ongoing, circular process. In 2026 the duo will take this research to Svalbard through a three-month residency with ARTICA, expanding the frame of their inquiry from the personal to the planetary.

In addition to producing her own books, zines, and other printed mater, she also produces books in collaboration with other queer /feminist artists under the imprint she launched in 2024, pillowfort press. For the press’ first title she worked with performance artist Ollie Hermansson to produce How to be a Straight Line (transition edition)(publication edition), a print version of an eponymous performance work.