Alexandra Pacula was born in Poland in 1979 and at the age of fourteen moved to the United States together with her family. She resides in North Haledon NJ but works in a studio in Brooklyn. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in painting from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers the State University of NJ in 2002 and recently finished a Master of Fine Arts degree at Montclair State University of NJ.

Her work has been included in many exhibitions around the NY, PA and NJ area. Her paintings are mostly large scale oil on canvas. In her work she explores human conditioning and anxieties. Her vigorous painterly scenes of urban nightlife offer an insight to human interactions, seductions and desires. Alexandra draws ideas from her immediate surroundings and experiences.