Who is Alexandra Grant, the girlfriend of Keanu Reeves? An insider’s view of the celebrated artist and benefactor during their enthralling red carpet appearance

Keanu Reeves put on a loved-up display with his girlfriend Alexandra Grant on Saturday, as they shared a smooch on the red carpet at the Museum of Contemporary Art Gala in Los Angeles.

The actor, 58, who is known as the ‘nicest guy in Hollywood’ went public with his girlfriend, 50, back in 2019 with a similar red carpet appearance.

Following a tumultuous love life for the John Wick actor, he found love with best pal Alexandra after years of friendship.

Despite keeping details of his life famously low-key, Keanu has gushed over his other half over the last few years.

And as the pair appear to be going strong, MailOnline takes a look inside the accomplished life of Alexandra.

Who is Keanu Reeves’ girlfriend Alexandra Grant? MailOnline takes a look inside the acclaimed artist and philanthropist’s life after she and the John Wick actor put on a smitten red carpet display over the weekend

Acclaimed: Born in Ohio, Alexandra has been working in the arts since graduating from Swarthmore College in 1994 with a BA in history and studio art

Who is Alexandra Grant?

Based in Los Angeles, Alexandra is an artist and philanthropist who has exhibited around the world.

The Ohio-𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 beauty has been working in the arts since graduating from Swarthmore College in 1994 with a BA in history and studio art.

The artist is known for her use of language and exchanges with writers as a source for imagery in her sculpture, painting, drawing, and video works, hence her collaboration with Keanu, who alongside his box office hits has dabbled in poetry.

Alexandra fostered her love for the spoken word as a 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥, after growing up around the world, living in Mexico, Spain and France.

The artist has gone on to exhibit in prestigious spaces across the globe, including Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Galerie Gradiva in Paris and The Harris Lieberman Gallery in New York.

She used her artistic talent to found the philanthropic grantLOVE project in 2008 which produces and sells original artworks and editions to benefit artist projects and arts non-profits.

Accomplished: Based in Los Angeles, Alexandra is an artist and philanthropist who has exhibited around the world (pictured with Keanu in 2019)

Despite keeping details of his life famously low-key, Keanu has gushed over his other half over the last few years.

And as the pair appear to be going strong, MailOnline takes a look inside the accomplished life of Alexandra.

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Who is Alexandra Grant?

Based in Los Angeles, Alexandra is an artist and philanthropist who has exhibited around the world.

The Ohio-𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 beauty has been working in the arts since graduating from Swarthmore College in 1994 with a BA in history and studio art.

Alexandra fostered her love for the spoken word as a 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥, after growing up around the world, living in Mexico, Spain and France.

The artist has gone on to exhibit in prestigious spaces across the globe, including Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Galerie Gradiva in Paris and The Harris Lieberman Gallery in New York.

She used her artistic talent to found the philanthropic grantLOVE project in 2008 which produces and sells original artworks and editions to benefit artist projects and arts non-profits.

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Accomplished: Based in Los Angeles, Alexandra is an artist and philanthropist who has exhibited around the world (pictured with Keanu in 2019)

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Educated: The Ohio-𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 beauty has been working in the arts since graduating from Swarthmore College in 1994 with a BA in history and studio art

How did Alexandra and Keanu meet?

As for Alexandra and Keanu’s partnership, the two have a history that goes back years, first collaborating together on a grown-up’s picture book, Ode to Happiness, in 2011 after reportedly meeting in 2009.

The tongue-in-cheek book was a success, sparking the poet-artist duo to create their second book together, Shadows, in 2016, with Grant photographing Reeves while he was filming John Wick.

Speaking of working together on their second book, Alexandra told W Magazine: ‘We can spend a lot of time debating. Like, “A raspberry hue? And should it be darker?” We can get obsessive.’

Shadows is compiled of dark silhouette images of Reeves taken by Grant and poetry written by the Matrix actor.

Alexandra told the LA Times of her collaborator Keanu: ‘No one can move the way he can. He’s a really extreme performer.

‘That’s a huge piece of why those images are so interesting. I knew that if I moved the camera as we danced together, as photographer and subject, we could create these wonderful optical illusions.’

The journalist for the piece noted that ‘in conversation, the two friends share an easy rapport and speak in a comfortable shorthand fueled by inside jokes and knowing smiles.’

Building on their success with their two books, the pair founded publishing company X Artists’ Books in 2017, with a focus on ‘unusual collaborations’ and books that ‘don’t really have a place because they’re between genres’.

Keanu features in various snaps on Alexandra’s Instagram page, including a sweet photo of the two with their arms wrapped around one another to celebrate the launch of Shadows in 2016.

Before going public with their relationship, the pair had previously been pictured together at the Saint Laurent Mens Spring Summer show in Malibu.

Childhood: Alexandra fostered her love for the spoken word as a 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥, after growing up around the world, living in Mexico, Spain and France (pictured with her mother)

Duo: As for Alexandra and Keanu’s partnership, the two have a history that goes back years, first collaborating together on a grown-up’s picture book, Ode to Happiness, in 2011 after reportedly meeting in 2009 (pictured at a 2016 signing)

What have the couple said publicly about the relationship?

Despite amassing a huge support from fans desperate for insight into his life, Keanu is known for keeping intimate details private, mainly refraining from delving on personal details.

But earlier this year, Keanu gushed about his sweet relationship with Alexandra, describing a moment of ‘bliss’.

During a chat with People, the actor was asked to name his ‘last moment of bliss,’ to which he responded: ‘A couple of days ago with my honey. We were in bed. We were connected.’

The John Wick star effervesced: ‘We were smiling and laughing and giggling. Feeling great. It was just really nice to be together.’

Back in 2020, Alexandra spoke to British Vogue about finding love with Keanu, but remained coy when the question of marriage arised.

Expertly dodging the question when probed if it was something she is thinking about, Alexandra responded with: ‘Over a glass of wine… I would love to tell you’.

Adding: ‘Love at every level is deeply important to my identity. How’s that for dodging the question? I do not believe that isolation is the way. There is a period of isolation that I do as a painter, but I deeply value the experience of being in relationships.’

Sweet: Earlier this year, Keanu gushed about his sweet relationship with Alexandra, describing a moment of ‘bliss’

Keanu’s A-list exes and secret heartbreak

Keanu has always keep his personal life very private but that hasn’t stopped the rumour mill from churning with links to A-list actresses.

The movie star has had previous dalliances with Amanda De Cadenet and Claire Forlani but it’s not known how serious he was with them.

There’s also been the long-standing rumour that he secretly dated his Speed co-star Sandra Bullock in the nineties after their sizzling onscreen chemistry scored a box office hit.

Just friends: The movie icon has been linked for years to Sandra Bullock, whom he has said he used to have a crush on. Left in 1994 and right in 2006

Linked: Keanu was also spotted out and about with director Sofia Coppola in the early nineties, after they fell for each other on the set of Bram Stoker’s Dracula

The actors have both admitted they had a crush on one another during filming for the 1994 movie, but have insisted they have never dated.

In the 80s Keanu dated Jill Schoelen for three years after meeting on the set of the 1986 film Babes in Toyland,

Keanu was also spotted out and about with director Sofia Coppola in the early nineties, after they fell for each other on the set of Bram Stoker’s Dracula which Sofia’s father Francis Ford Coppola directed.

Reeves’s most significant relationship was with actress Jennifer Syme. They began dating in 1998 and, in 1999, Syme became pregnant with their daughter, Ava.

Ava was tragically still𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 at eight months. In 2001, Syme drove her 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee into a row of parked cars in Los Angeles; she died instantly. She was only 28-years-old at the time.