Alexandra Kehayoglou

Her 2018 series titled Prayer Rugs addresses the landscapes of the Parana Delta Wetlands, which has been damaged by deforestation, hunting, the introduction of foreign species of fauna, and both domestic and industrial pollution. Her work documents the "micro-narratives" of the surviving plants and wildlife in this region.

In 2017 she completed Santa Cruz River, titled after the Santa Cruz River in Argentina, which was the proposed site of two major hydroelectric dams.

Her 2016 work No Longer Creek documents the Raggio Creek, a creek north of Buenos Aires whose banks have been damaged by human activity. Her work represents what the creek used to look like to reflect the greenery and landscape that has been lost. It calls the viewer to experience this environment that no longer exists and reconnect with lost nature.

For Paris Fashion Week in 2015, Dries van Noten ordered a tufted rug from Kehayoglou that covered the entire stage. The carpet consisted of four parts and totaled 144 square meters. It was completed by three 10-member teams in 16 days. The carpet is an abstraction of the Argentine landscape where she lives.

Alexandra Kehayoglou (born 1981) is an Argentinian textile artist. She is best known for her large-scale carpets which address topics of climate change. She won the Konex Award from Argentina in 2022.

Kehayoglou was born in 1981 in Buenos Aires, Argentina to a family of carpet-makers. Her grandparents immigrated from Isparta (present-day Turkey) in the 1920s, bringing with them their practice of making Ottoman-style rugs. Her grandmother founded a carpet-making company, El Espartano. Kehayoglou went on to incorporate the family tradition of carpet-making into her own artistic practice.