Alexis Hunter was a founder member of the Women's Art Movement in London and has been invited to have solo shows annually since her photographic series Approaches to Fear was exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London. In 1989 the Auckland City Gallery mounted the Retrospective Fears/Dreams/Desires and published a monograph of the artist’s work. Hunter’s essays on the psychology of creativity are published and she also makes editions of artist’s books.  She has co-curated International exhibitions of women painters in New York and China in the United Kingdom.

Hunter has held individual exhibitions in private galleries in London, New York, Amsterdam, Wellington and Auckland and has figured in over 150 group exhibitions; these include The Hayward Annual, Issue and The State of the Art, and the 4th Sydney Biennale. Her work has been bought for International Public and Private Collections.