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Born 1981, St. Ann, Jamaica
EDUCATION:
2014 Master in Fine Arts, MFA,New York Academy of Art, New York, USA
2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts, BFA, Painting, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Jamaica
2003 Diploma, Art Education, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Jamaica
SCHOLARSHIPS/RESIDENCES/AWARDS
2021 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Artist Grant
2019 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Artist Grant
2017 Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ Residency
2017 Dawn Scott Memorial Award, 2017 Jamaica Biennial, Kingston,Jamaica
2014 LCU Fund for Women Education Grant
2013 LIA Artists’ Residency, Leipzig, Germany
2013 New York Academy Student Service Scholarship
2013 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
2013 LCU Fund for Women Education Grant
2004 Two Bronze medals award, Jamaica Cultural Development art competition
2003 Bronze medal and merit certificate award, Jamaica Cultural Development art competition
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION:
2023 Coming to ‘Merica: Invasive Species, Winston Wachter Fine Art Gallery, New York
2022 What about the men? , UUU Art Collective Gallery, Rochester, New York
2019 What if the man in the new world needs mimicry as design, both as defense and lure? Virago Gallery, Seattle Washington, USA
2016 Copy and Placed,Studio 174, Kingston, Jamaica
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024 Women of the Diaspora, Softwater Gallery, Florida, USA
Beyond Seeing, M Contemporary Gallery,Detroit, USA
2023 Mirror Mirror, travelling exhibition,Springfield Museum of Art, OH, Wooster College Museum, OH, Allen County Museum, OH, USA
Jamaica Making: The Theresa Roberts Art Collection, Victoria Gallery and Museum, UK
2022 Pressure, Kingston Biennial 2022, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston,Jamaica
2021 Transformation: objects and images in relation, Clemente Centre,New York, NY
One World: International Women Artists ofFlorida, Crealde School of Art, Winter Park, Florida
Parallels andPeripheries: Practice and Presence, New York Academy of Art
Contemporary Figuration, Virtual exhibition, AbendGallery, Colorado, USA
Prizm Art Fair -Virtual Exhibition, Miami Florida
2020 Prizm Art Fair, Virtual exhibition
Miniature Show, Virtual exhibition, Abend Gallery, USA
Painting the Figure Now, Wasau Museum of Contemporary Art, USA
Polycephaly, Virtual Exhibition, Sanitary Tortilla Factory, New Mexico, USA
Paint: Medium as power in time of crisis, Barrett Art Centre, New York
Summer Exhibition 2020, Virtual show, New York Academy of Art, NY
2019 N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI, US
2018 Prizm Art Fair, Alfred DuPont Building, Miami, USA
Real Men, New York Academy of Art, Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Miami, USA
Little But Fierce, ChaShaMa, New York, NY, USA
Conflicted Perceptions, Grovesnor Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2017 Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Single Fair, Highline stages, New York, NY
LCU Fund for Women Education fundraising show, Riverpark, New York, NY
Jamaica Spirituality, St Stephen Walbrook Church, London, England
Our Daily Armour, Virago Gallery, Seattle WA, USA
2015 Young Talent, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
LCU Fund for Women Education fundraising show, Riverpark, New York, NY
2014 NYAA Summer Show, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY
MFA Thesis Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Painting at the Metropolitan Museum Show, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Hudson RisingProject, New York, NY
LCU Fund, Student Mixer show, New York, NY
2013 Leipzig Residency Show, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
LIA Summer Show, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
Extreme Drawings, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Deck the walls, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Experimental Show, New York Academy of Art, New York,
2012 Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Single Fare, RH Gallery, New York, NY
Show of Heads, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Deck theWalls, New YorkAcademy of Art, New York, NY
Shout and4play, Studio 174,Kingston, Jamaica
Art Fresh, Mutual Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2011 Quartet, Bolivar Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
Group Show, Betty Bolivar Gallery, Sarasota, Florida, USA
2010 Passion, Pegasus Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica,
Rejuvenate, Studio 174, Kingston, Jamaica
2009 Question me Black, Studio 174, Kingston, Jamaica
Impressions in Blue, Studio 174,Kingston, Jamaica
2003 Final year Show, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Jamaica
2002 First Time, Pegasus Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
PUBLICATIONS:
2019 Painting the Figure Now, Poets Artists, issue 104
2016 Caribbean Quarterly a Journal of Caribbean culture, volume 62. No. 2
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
The New Diversity Museum of Art and Culture,Pittsburgh, PA, USA
The Bennett Art Collection of Women Realists,San Antonio Texas, USA
Jamaica Making: Theresa Roberts Collection,London, England
LIA International Art Program Collection,Leipzig, Germany
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ANDPRESS
New American Paintings, South Issue, No.166,July 2023
Patchwork, Essays and Interviews onCaribbean Visual Culture, Jacqueline Bishop, 2023
Interventions, Volume 1, the LatinX Project atNYU, Survival Stories through Portrait Painting, Petrina Dacres, 2022
Artsy, Women Artists to Watch, 2022
Colossal, Balloons, Plants, and Bubble WrapBecome Powerful Subversive Symbols in Alicia Brown’s Portraits, GraceEbert, 2022
Canvas Rebel, Stories and Insights, MeetAlicia Brown, 2022
Fine Art Connoisseur, Why Figure PaintingsStill Matter, Fine Art today, 2022
Fine Art Connoisseur, the ElizabethGreenshields Foundation: Helping Artists Emerge, 2021
Voyage MIA, Local Stories, Check out AliciaBrown’s Story, 2021
ARTIT, Voice of Artists Issue 12, 2021
Jamaica Observer, Repeating Islands, AliciaBrown: Revising colonial narratives within the languages of Portraiture andPainting, Jacqueline Bishop, 2020
Painting The Figure Now, Poets and Artists,issue 104, curated by Victoria Selbach, 2019
FindYello, MyJamaica: The Artist’s Life- Alicia Brown, Chantel Dacosta, 2017
CaribbeanQuarterly, a journal of Caribbean culture, Mimicry and Acceptance-AliciaBrown, Volume 62, No. 2, Kim Robinson Walcott, 2016