Who Is Keanu Reeves’ Girlfriend? All About the Artist Alexandra Grant

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The John Wick star called her ‘my honey’ in 2023.

Key Points

• Keanu Reeves and Alexandra Grant first stepped out together in 2019. They worked together as early as 2011.
• Grant is a visual artist known for her text-based drawings, paintings, and sculptures.
• Grant and Reeves founded a publishing company together called X Artists' Books.

He’s not just the Internet’s boyfriend —Keanu Reeves is taken offline too. The From the World of John Wick: Ballerina star has been dating visual artist Alexandra Grant for about six years. The charismatic couple went public with their relationship in 2019, People reported, when they hard-launched by holding hands on the LACMA Art + Film Gala red carpet.

Before revealing their romance to the world, the pair were longtime collaborators and friends. Grant illustrated Ode to Happiness , Reeves’ ‘grown-up picture book,’ all the way back in 2011. The artist and actor teamed up again when she did the photography for his 2016 art book Shadows . One year later, they founded their own publishing company called X Artists’ books.

Once news broke of their relationship, the accomplished visual artist, 52, received a new wave of attention. “I think every single person I knew called me in the first week of November, and that’s fascinating,” she said in a 2020 Vogue interview. “But the question I’ve been asking in all of this is: ‘What is the opportunity for good?’”

While they keep their relationship quiet, the pair offers occasional glimpses of how head-over-heels they are for each other. In 2023, Reeves told People his last moment of bliss was “[a] couple of days ago with my honey. We were in bed. We were connected. We were smiling and laughing and giggling. Feeling great. It was just really nice to be together.”

More recently, the duo packed on the PDA at the premiere of From the World of John Wick: Ballerina —and sparked engagement rumors, since fans spotted a diamond ring on Grant’s left ring finger. For her part, Grant has shied away from questions about tying the knot before, telling Vogue vaguely, “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.”

Whether or not they ever walk down the aisle, it’s clear the happy couple are in it for the long haul. So who is the talented artist that has the actor swooning? Here’s everything to know about Keanu Reeves’ girlfriend, Alexandra Grant.

She grew up in four different countries.

The daughter of two professors, Grant frequently moved around in her childhood. After her parents’ divorce, she spent her early childhood in Mexico City, according to a 2007 profile by her alma mater, Swarthmore. Her mother, American foreign-service officer Marcia Montin Grant, was stationed there.

Later, she spent a year at a St. Louis boarding school before moving to Paris for her mother’s next assignment. By 13, the artist was trilingual, fluent in Spanish, English, and French. She returned to the United States for college, receiving a BA in history and studio art from Swarthmore and an MFA in drawing and painting from San Francisco’s California College of the Arts, according to her official CV .

Regarding her unique upbringing, she explained , “Being raised in a society that’s different linguistically and culturally than the one you’re from, than the one your parents are from, you search for a way to make sense of it. The urge to write is there, to create a language, to tell a story of what you really understand.”

She’s known for her text-based art.

Before she ever collaborated with Reeves, Grant made a name for herself in the art world with provocative, text-based drawings, paintings, and sculptures. Her work is often inspired by writers and philosophers like novelist Michael Joyce and French theorist Hélène Cixous, according to the Swarthmore College Bulletin .

Opening up about her process in an interview with Modern Edition , she shared her initial fascination with incorporating language into visual mediums. “As an art student I became interested in exploring the liminal moment when a word becomes an image of a word,” she said. “That was an opening for me to explore, through drawing and painting, the visual qualities of literary language.”

Boasting solo and group exhibitions in prestigious museums around the world, the creative is a mainstay in the contemporary art world. On top of the publishing house she co-founded with Reeves, her CV indicates the artist has also served as a curator, artist in residence, professor, and visiting lecturer in the United States and abroad. In 2015, she received an Individual Artists Fellowship from the city of Los Angeles.

Like Reeves, she’s a philanthropist.

In 2008, Grant founded a charitable art project called grantLOVE to raise funds and awareness for fellow artists and nonprofits by selling artwork with her trademarked LOVE symbol. According to the project’s official website , grantLOVE has enabled her to donate over $300,000 since its inception. Past recipients of grantLOVE funds include Project Angel Food and Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA).

Her partner is no stranger to the philanthropic sphere himself. Vogue reported that Reeves told Ladies Home Journal in 2009 about his charitable efforts, which he prefers to keep out of the spotlight. “I have a private foundation that’s been running for five or six years, and it helps aid a couple of children’s hospitals and cancer research,” he said. “I don’t like to attach my name to it, I just let the foundation do what it does.”

In 2020, he auctioned off a 15-minute Zoom date with him to raise funds for Camp Rainbow Gold, a children’s cancer charity. The cause hits close to home for the Matrix actor, whose younger sister, Kim Reeves , battled leukemia for 10 years before entering remission in 2001.

Reeves is ‘an inspiration’ to her.

Since Reeves and Grant both have creative careers, it’s only natural that their fairytale romance fuels their crafts. Speaking with People in 2023, the artist opened up about her partner’s impact on her work. “I had a studio visit a few years ago, and this very kind, very high-level person said, 'I can see that your work has gotten happier,’ ” she shared. “That's real. We're all human beings. We're animals. We're expressing from where we are and certainly feeling happier. I think the work is happier.”

In the same conversation, she gushed about how Reeves pushes her to problem-solve when she’s in a creative rut. “What I love about Keanu and our exchange is that we're pushing each other to build new roads,” Grant said, later adding, “He's such an inspiration to me. He's so creative, he's so kind. He works so hard.”

Not only do they support each other behind the scenes, but they also regularly cheer each other on in the public eye. Grant has stepped out with Reeves for several of his film’s premieres, including hitting the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 red carpet back in December 2024. The Canadian actor also accompanies his girlfriend to glitzy museum galas—but when she hits an event solo, she’s more than comfortable with it.

“The good news about falling in love as an adult is that I had built my own career by the time that my relationship had begun,” she told People at the Los Angeles Beverly Arts Icon Awards. “I feel very confident in the relationship on the red carpet. I feel confident on it alone.”

They ride motorcycles together.

Reeves’ passion for motorcycles is almost as talked-about as his blockbuster career . The actor and a friend co-founded a custom motorcycle manufacturer, ARCH Motorcycle , in 2011. "It’s really a great place to think, to feel, to get away,” he explained to GQ of his reason for riding, adding, “When I don’t ride a motorcycle, I go through withdrawal. It’s not good for my health.”

Thankfully for Reeves, his partner is always down to go for a ride. “It’s been really wonderful to be with Alexandra. We enjoy each other’s company, you know, whatever that may be. Once the beaches opened up [after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns], we went for a motorcycle ride,” he said in a 2020 interview with Parade .

In 2025, he elaborated on their shared bond over the hobby during a sit-down with E! News . “Alexandra actually rode motorcycles, and can ride,” he revealed. “And then, we have been on a couple of trips together on the motorcycle, and we have enjoyed it.”

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