Alexandra Navratil lives and works in Amsterdam, Zurich and Basel. She graduated from Goldsmiths College London and was artist-in-residence at EYE Film Museum Amsterdam, ISCP New York and IMMA Dublin, among others.
Twice the winner of the Swiss Art Award, she has also been the recipient of the Manor Kunstpreis Kanton Zürich and the Prix Mobilière. In recent years her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Tale of a Tub Rotterdam, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Centre Culturel Suisse Paris and Photoforum Pasquart Biel, as well as in institutional group exhibitions at Kunsthaus Zürich, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, CAPC Bordeaux, Museum Sztuki Lodz, ICA Philadelphia and de Appel Amsterdam. Her videos have been screened at Liverpool Biennale, Gulbenkian Museum Lisbon, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, EYE Filmmuseum Amsterdam,
IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam and Kochi-Muziris Bienale amongst other venues. She is a lecturer at Institut Art Gender Nature at FHNW in Basel.