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WITNESS ALICIA HENRY NOVEMBER 18 - DECEMBER 31 WITNESS ARTIST STATEMENT A common recurring image in my work is the human figure-the figure in isolation and the figure interacting with others In Witness, I am interested in exploring how gender (females particularly), race, cultural and societal differences affect individual and group responses to traumatic events - Alicia Henry installation view 2017 Liliana Bloch Gallery Dallas, TX Untitled 2017 mixed media, oil on canvas, thread, and fabric 32” x 12” Untitled (detail) 2017 mixed media, oil on canvas, thread, and fabric 32” x 12” installation view 2017 Liliana Bloch Gallery Dallas, TX Untitled 2017 mixed media, acrylic on felt, thread, and fabric 21” x 19” Untitled 2017 mixed media, acrylic on felt, thread, and fabric 32.5” x 19.5” Untitled 2017 mixed media, acrylic on felt, thread, and fabric 23” x 17” Untitled 2017 mixed media, acrylic on felt, thread, and fabric 39” x 15” Untitled (detail) 2017 mixed media, dye on canvas, acrylic, thread, and fabric 49” x 9.5” Untitled 2017 mixed media, dye on wool, canvas, thread, and fabric 29” x 9” Untitled (detail) 2017 mixed media, dye on wool, canvas, thread, and fabric 29” x 9” ALICIA HENRY ABOUT THE ARTIST 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 -Alicia Henry Henry’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.to photography as a medium CURRICULUM VITAE EDUCATION NEW HAVEN, CT MFA Yale University MADISON, ME Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture CHICAGO, IL BFA Studio Arts The School of the Art Institute of Chicago CURRICULUM VITAE AWARDS 2016 1858 Prize for Contemporary Art 2016 Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts 2013 Joan Mitchell Painter and Sculptor Grant 2012 Music City Center Art Commission 2002 Hydra, Greece-Residency 2000 Art in General-Residency 2000 - 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship 1993 MacDowell Art Colony 1991 - 1993 Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown 1989 - 1991 Ford Foundation Fellowship CURRICULUM VITAE AWARDS 1989 - 1991 Hillwood Museum Grant 1990 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture 1986 - 1988 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (merit) CURRICULUM VITAE SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2018 NASHVILLE, TN 20 Collaboration in Book Art III Main Gallery Nashville Public Library 2017 DALLAS, TX Witness Liliana Bloch Gallery 2017 CHAMPAIGN, IL Giertz Gallery Parkland College 2017 LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, GA Covenant College 2016 NASHVILLE, TN 20 Collaborations in Book Art II Main Gallery Nashville Public Library 2016 NASHVILLE, TN The Walk Zeitgeist Gallery 2015 - 2016 NASHVILLE, TN Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura of Art Frist Center for the Visual Arts, 2015 SARASOTA, FL Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura of Art The Ringling Museum of Art 2015 NASHVILLE, TN Mash-UP: Artist Cardboard David Lusk Gallery 2015 NASHVILLE, TN Topography Tinney Contemporary Gallery CURRICULUM VITAE SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2015 COLUMBUS, MS Intersection of Gender and Place Mississippi University for Women 2014 CHATTANOOGA, TN The Hunter’s Museum Invitational III Hunter Museum of American Art 2014 NASHVILLE, TN 20 Collaboration in Book Art Main Gallery Nashville Public Library 2014 RICHMOND, VA Real Cowgirls and Real Cowboys Urban Individualist Studio 2014 NASHVILLE, TN Creative Legacy: African American in Tennessee Tennessee State Museum 2013 LOS ANGELES, CA Tapping the Third Realm Ben Maltz Gallery Otis College of Art and Design 2013 LOS ANGELES, CA Tapping the Third Realm Laband Art Gallery Loyola Marymount University 2013 SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA TABOO The Museum of Contemporary Art 2013 PHILADELPHIA, PA The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making their World Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 2012 SEWANEE, TN Alicia Henry: There was a House Sewanee: The University of the South CURRICULUM VITAE SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2012 NASHVILLE, TN Fragile Zeitgeist Gallery 2011 PHILADELPHIA, PA Angels Without Wings Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery The University of the Arts 2009 KNOXVILLE, TN The Walk Downtown Gallery The University of Tennessee 2008 NASHVILLE, TN Fisk University Faculty Exhibition Frist Center for the Visual Arts 2007 ASHEVILLE, NC Utility Trances Flood Gallery Fine Art Center 2007 PROVINCETOWN, MA Former Fellows Exhibition Fine Arts Work Center 2007 NASHVILLE, TN Alicia Henry: A Short Story Watkins School of Design 2007 SEWANEE, TN Mask Sewanee: The University of the South 2006 MOBILE, AL Outside-In, Inside-Out 301 Space 2006 CHICAGO, IL All About Women Carl Hammer Gallery CURRICULUM VITAE SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2005 NASHVILLE, TN Households Zeitgeist Gallery 2005 CHICAGO, IL Alicia Henry Northeastern Illinois University 2004 MEMPHIS, TN Alicia Henry Rhodes College Clough-Hanson Gallery 2004 SOUTH BEND, IN Alicia Henry: Recent Works South Bend Museum of Art 2003 - 2004 NASHVILLE, TN Art of Tennessee Frist Center for the Visual Arts 2003 BLOOMINGTON, IL Material Presence McLean County Art Center 2003 NASHVILLE, TN Alicia Henry: Black and Blue Frist Center for the Visual Arts 2003 NASHVILLE, TN Fisk Faculty Exhibition The Carl Van Vechten Gallery Fisk University 2002 EVANSTON, IL Remembrance Evanston Art Center 2002 RIDGEFIELD, CT The Charles H Carpenter Jr Collection: Fifty Years of Supporting the New The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art CURRICULUM VITAE SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2002 NASHVILLE, TN Flying Solo Nashville International Airport 2002 NASHVILLE, TN Totally Art Centric 13 Bethlehem Centers of Nashville 2002 ELLENSBURG, WA What a Doll Central Washington University 2001 CHICAGO, IL Four Corners School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2001 NASHVILLE, TN Switch Yard Zeitgeist Gallery 2001 PROVINCETOWN, MA Small Works Exhibition Hudson D Walker Gallery 2001 NEW YORK, NY Mostly One Good Thing Gallery 2001 NEW YORK, NY From the Heart Education Alliance 2000 NEW YORK, NY Family Portrait Art In General 2000 NASHVILLE, TN Untitled Cheekwood Botanical Gardens & Museum of Art CURRICULUM VITAE SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2000 ABINGDON, VA From Africa to America William King Museum of Art 2000 NASHVILLE, TN N4Art Art Gallery Tennessee State University 2000 NEW YORK, NY The Stroke Exit Art / The First World 2000 NEW YORK, NY Metaphor Abrons Art Center Henry Street Settlement 1998 NASHVILLE, TN Faculty Exhibition Fisk University 1998 CHICAGO, IL Post Millennium Musing: Associate Members and Friends Artemisia Gallery 1997 NEW YORK, NY A Passion for Pictures Whitney Museum of American Art 1996 PITTSBURGH, PA Charles H Carpenter, Jr: The Odyssey of a Collector Carnegie Museum Of Art 1995 NEW YORK, NY Return of the Cadavre Equis The Drawing Center DECEMBER 1994 PARIS, FRANCE Return of the Cadavre Equis American Center CURRICULUM VITAE SELECTED EXHIBITIONS SEPTEMBER - NOVEMBER 1994 NEW YORK, NY Return of the Cadavre Equis Forum Contemporary Art JULY - SEMPTEMBER 1994 SANTA MONICA, CA Return of the Cadavre Equis Santa Monica Museum of Art 1992 PROVINCETOWN, MA Figures Universal Fine Objects Gallery 1992 WEST BARNSTABLE, MA Other Politics Higgins Art Gallery Cape Cod Community College 1992 PROVINCETOWN, MA Domestic Icons Provincetown Museum 1991 LOUISVILLE, KY On Target Zephyr Gallery