About the Artist
Stevie Alger is an Australian artist based in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, best known for her signature faceless portraits in heavy impasto acrylic.
She has had night terrors about faces since she was five. Cartoons and mythical creatures never frightened her. Real faces did, and they stayed with her for months at a time. As a child she hung dreamcatchers around her bed to keep them out, to no avail.
Without meaning to, she painted them out instead. Faceless figures became her signature long before she understood where they came from, and she only saw the connection when a friend pointed it out. Since she started painting, she has slept more peacefully than at any point since childhood.
“I turn a negative experience into a positive. It has given me a peace and a health I haven’t known since I was five.”
“What I feel on the inside is usually different to what shows on the outside. A faceless face is the version of a person that does not make it to the surface.”
Each canvas is committed to a world of a single colour, with paint thick enough to read as relief. From across a room the figure resolves. Up close it breaks into material. Nothing is editioned, and no original is ever printed.
The Rise
Raised on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Alger won her first painting competition at seven and painted in a small gallery after school, then studied in Strasbourg, France. In Los Angeles she built a career in marketing while painting privately in her living room.
Once she began sharing the work, it moved quickly. She was the featured artist at her first gallery exhibition, at CLTR in Downtown Los Angeles. Interviews followed, and curators, collectors and galleries, including from overseas, began approaching her directly.
Comedian Max Amini was the first to acquire a collection. Benson Boone’s team commissioned a piece, delivered ahead of his tour, and TikTok star Daniel Mac is among her collectors. What started in her living room now hangs in multimillion dollar homes in the Hollywood Hills.
Solo Show
From September 23 to 25, 2026, during Fall Design Week, BaileyWick Gallery at the Pacific Design Center gave its entire space over to her work. The show sold multiple pieces and led to meetings with collectors and fine art galleries, who called the work “timeless” and a “generational change.” A percentage went to The Midnight Foundation.
Painting is now her full time career, and she is moving into her third studio as the practice grows. In December she heads to Art Basel Miami Beach.
She is represented by BaileyWick Gallery, was a finalist for People’s Art of the Year presented by Johnny Depp, and was named among GOSS Magazine’s 101 Women to Watch.
The Idea
Before painting full time, Alger spent ten years as an international award winning creative director across more than 40 brands, watching brand voices, headlines and homepages converge on the same output. AI can now hand the same image to everyone on earth in seconds. A painting still requires a person standing in front of a canvas.
“The work that survives is either unforgettable or deeply human. And mine will be both.”Stevie Alger to Kaelen Jones, The Paint
Solo Show, BaileyWick Gallery, Pacific Design Center, Fall Design Week 2026
In Private Collections
