The visual artist told PEOPLE at the 2026 MOCA Gala that the difference in her work is “undeniable” ever since she started dating Reeves
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- Keanu Reeves and his girlfriend, visual artist Alexandra Grant, attended the 2026 MOCA Gala together on May 30
- Reeves told PEOPLE at the event that Grant is easy to love as she opened up about how her art has changed
- Grant said she has observed her “paintings become happier”
Alexandra Grant is easy to love, according to boyfriend Keanu Reeves.
The couple spoke with PEOPLE exclusively at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles while attending the 2026 MOCA Gala on Saturday, May 30. They reflected on how their respective art has changed since they began dating.
Asked whether he agrees with the assessment that Grant, 53, is an “easy woman to love,” Reeves, 61, heartily agreed, “Yes!”
The visual artist and veteran actor then revealed how their love has changed their art while chatting on the red carpet at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Little Tokyo.
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“That's a big question,” Grant, whose work has been exhibited in galleries across the country, told PEOPLE. “I would say that all painting is autobiographical, even though maybe even in abstraction it doesn't look like there's a big narrative, but I would definitely say that my paintings become happier.”
“It's undeniable,” she added of the happy tinge that loving Reeves adds to her work. “I have to admit that.”
The John Wick star, for his part, offered a more reserved response, admitting, “I don't know if it has.”
Grant and Reeves have been romantically linked since 2019. They first connected on a professional level with the book Ode to Happiness, which Reeves wrote and Grant illustrated. They co-founded a publishing house and went public with their relationship two years later.
At the MOCA Gala — which they previously attended together in 2024 — the couple stressed how important it is for them to not only create art, but support others who make and highlight it as well. This year's honorees include two artists, Kara Walker and Paul McCarthy, as well as philanthropist Eugenio López Alonso, a longtime member of MOCA's board of trustees.
“We are here to support MOCA because we love this museum, and in 2007 [former senior curator at MOMA] Alma Ruiz gave me my first solo show here at MOCA, so I have a long history of coming to the museum and supporting them,” Grant told PEOPLE at the event, “and we want the museum to have a rich and really culturally significant future.”
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Grant continued, “We are big supporters of this museum and [MOMA's Interim Maurice Marciano Director] Ann Goldstein, and everyone who's doing everything to make it remain such an important museum in Los Angeles and the world.”
Reeves, meanwhile, underscored the gala's social component.
“I mean, it's just seeing a lot of friends, and what I love about this gala is that a lot of artists are here, as well as the people who support them,” the actor said as Grant added, “Just like us.”
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The latest from the art-loving couple comes just two days after Grant opened up about her and Reeves' love at a launch event for her new wine brand, LOVE Wine, L.A., on Thursday, May 28. At the event, she chatted with PEOPLE about how she and her “appreciative” actor boyfriend navigate work and studio time.
The “key” to striking a balance is “the mutual respect,” she said, adding, "Every project has its own autonomy, its own team, it has its own sort of rules, and it has a beginning, middle and end. So we both are people who do projects, and you know, I've lived with John Wick, I've lived with Neo."
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Of Reeves, who is known for playing the title role in the John Wick franchise and Neo in The Matrix films, Grant continued, "When he's in a character, for example, I have so much respect for that understanding that this is the middle to the end of a project, right? And I think the same goes for painting.”
“When I'm in painter mode, I am in it,” she added. “I'm fully in it, and it's not playing a character, but it is performing, you know, painting really is a form of performance too.”
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