Bio
Marty Alexeenko is a graphic designer in Richmond, Virginia.

Her curious approach to research, design systems, and translation extends into her media and industry work, creating print and digital solutions for complex problems while centering community. 

She is currently reading: 
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza , Gloria Anzaldúa

Let’s chat...
martyalexeenko@gmail.com
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Curriculum Vitae
Education
Virginia Commonwealth University, 
School of the Arts, Richmond VA
B.F.A. 2026, Summa cum laude
ExperienceFreelance Graphic Designer
Richmond VA
Aug 2025 – Present

Design/Gallery Intern
1708 Gallery, Richmond VA
Jan 2026 – May 2026

President
The Experimental Print Club at VCU,
Richmond VA
Nov 2025 – May 2026

Graphic Designer
The Commonwealth Times, Richmond VA
Aug 2025 – May 2026

Graphic Design Intern
VCU College of Humanities and Sciences, Richmond VA
Aug 2025 – Dec 2025

Design Editor
Ink Magazine, Richmond VA
May 2024 – May 2025

Graphic Designer
Ink Magazine
Oct 2023 – May 2024

Exhibition2026
Assembly Required, Studio Two Three
Richmond VA

LASTING IMPRESSION, 822 W. Broad
Richmond VA

2025
Hello my name is..., Gallery 5
Richmond VA

RAW, Hanbury Design
Richmond VA

Coalesce , Joseph Seipel Gallery
Richmond VA

Queer in Act, Anderson Gallery
Richmond VA

2024
Scales of Indifference, Anderson Gallery
Richmond VA

SEX, Field
Richmond VA

Virginia Stories: Underground Art, Library of Virginia
Richmond VA

Creatures of the Night, The Camel
Richmond VA

Nonagon Affinity, Black Iris
Richmond VA

Zagreb Street Art Festival, Pri Nami
Zagreb HR

Stopped at a Red Light, Hanbury Design
Richmond VA

2023
Featured Artist, Supply
Richmond VA

Storm the Gates, Art 180
Richmond VA
Awards VCUarts Dean’s List
Aug 2022 – May 2026

VCUarts Undergraduate Research Grant
Dec 2025

Associated Collegiate Press Clips & Clicks – Magazine Cover, 2nd Place
Feb 2025

VCU Merit-based Renewable Scholarship
Aug 2022
Press2025
You’re Not Seeing Things
Wheeling WV

Scales of Indifference, The Catalog
Richmond VA

RAW, Ink Magazine
Richmond VA

2024
Transcendence, Ink Magazine
Richmond VA

The Sex Issue, Ink Magazine
Richmond VA

Last Updated 5.23.26
Selected works
Student mediaIndustry workArchive


Probe, Spring 2026

Introductory reader inquiring on the state of web design on the Russian internet. Colloquially called the “Runet”, Probe covers how state censorship, the post-Soviet introduction of foreign technology, and the Russian user’s relationship to online expression and communications informs why the Runet embodies a specific and sovereign essence. 


Off Topic: A Feral Lecture Series, ongoing

Print and social media template design for a grassroots lecture series. Inspired by the Russian homework of my childhood, the layout is based on the often incomprehensible, “feral”, appearing script of Cyrillic cursive.


My love I hope my message finds you well, Spring 2026

Hand-curated archive of early 2000s Russian internet art in 216 images. An homage to the handmade web while serving as an ethnographic inquiry on the specificity of the Runet media landscape.



QUEEЯ, Spring 2025

Academic research and republishing surrounding homophobic persecution in the USSR and modern-day Russia. References pulled from Brian James Baer’s Other Russias: Homosexuality and the Crisis of Post-Soviet Identity and Francesca Stella’s Queer Space, Pride, and Shame in Moscow are coupled with archival images of Soviet queer media, historical locations, and contemporary post-Soviet artist works.




The Experimental Print Club at VCU, Spring 2026

Social media promotional materials designed to follow a recognizable palette while being flexible for varying information. Utilized digital printing and scanography to emphasize analog creation methods within the club’s activities.