Alicia Henry

untitled, mixed media on panel, 18 x 18 inches

Alicia Henry, Music City Center 2013; image: Hans Schmitt-Matzen

Alicia Henry, Music City Center; image: Hans Schmitt-Matzen

Alicia Henry, Blue Nose 2011; mixed media on paper; 28 x 22"

Alicia Henry, Red Girl 2011, mixed media on paper; 28 x 22"

untitled (male blue nose) 2015, mixed media, 32 x 17"

untitled (woman) 2015, mixed media, 30 x 21.5"

untitled (large red face) 2015, mixed media, 48 x 30"

The Walk installation 2015

untitled (legs) 2015, mixed media, 47 x 15"

untitled (tall figure) 2015, dye, thread, cotton, charcoal, linen, felt, acrylic, 80 x 24"

untitled (Mother and Child) 2015, mixed media, 85 x 27"

untitled (small head with dots) 2015, 14 x 8"

statement:
Isolation and interaction is a common recurring idea in my work. I am interested in the complexities and the contradictions surrounding familial relationships as well as societal differences and how these variations affect individual and group responses to themes of Beauty, the Body, and Identity. My current work explores these ideas, addressing the process through which groups (specifically female) navigate these issues.

This installation will investigate this in five parts. Through a depiction of the roles that age, class, gender, nationality, and race, have in the idea of Households.

education:
MFA Yale University School of Art
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
BFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Alicia's work has been shown at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Fisk University, and the Nashville International Airport in addition to the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, and the Drawing Center and the Whitney Museum in New York.

Awards:

2014 Joan Mitchell Foundation

2002 Hydra, Greece-Residency

2000 In General-Residency

2000-2001 Guggenheim Fellowship

exhibitions:

Alicia Henry: 2020 and 2021