Alexander Kori Girard (b.1979, Santa Fe, New Mexico) comes from a line of creatives. His grandfather, Alexander Girard, was an iconic designer who gave Kori a sense of elevated aesthetics and a deep visual memory for folk art methods and traditions. His father was a talented builder who lived in the genius of the everyday. Girard graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City with degrees in both graphic design and illustration in 2001. Since then he has been both maintaining his own artistic and design practices, as well as working closely with his family to protect and promote the legacy of his grandfather. He is in the Berkeley Art Museum’s private collection and has shown with Jack Hanley Gallery and Curator’s Cube in Tokyo. He currently lives and works in Berkeley, California. He has been exhibiting with Johansson Projects since 2016.