Notice Board

**LECTURE CANCELLED**

Due to severe weather conditions and all University of Lethbridge classes cancelled for Sept 30, Alicia Henry's artist talk is cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes.

Art NOW presents Alicia Henry
Noon, September 30, 2019
University Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome!

Alicia Henry lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee. Isolation and interaction are common themes in Henry’s work. She is interested in the complexities, contradictions, and differences that surround societal relationships and how these variations affect individual and group responses to themes of beauty, the body and identity. Her current body of work explores the processes through which groups (specifically female) navigate these issues.

Henry received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a MFA from Yale University School of Art. She has received numerous awards, fellowships and grants, including the Joan Mitchel Painter and Sculptor Grant (2013); the Guggenheim Fellowship (2000-2001), and the Ford Foundation Fellowship (1989-1991); residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1990), the Fine Arts Work Centre in Provincetown (1991-1993), Art in General, New York (2000); and the MacDowell Art Colony (1993). Most recently, Henry received the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art Award (2016) and the Centre of Excellence for the Creative Arts Fellowship (2016-2017). Her work has been written about in Artforum International, ARTS ATL, New York Studio Conversations II, The Human Aura in Art, Nashville Arts Magazine, the BURNAWAY, The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, Art of Tennessee, Taboo, and The Globe and Mail.

Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions including the Atlanta Biennial (2019); the 13th Havana Biennial (Matanzas-2019); Cheekwood Museum, Nashville (2018-2019); Frist Museum, Nashville (2016); the Hunter Museum of American Art (2014); Tennessee State Museum, Nashville (2014); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (2013); the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (2013); South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana (2004); Islip Museum, New York (2002); the Nashville International Airport (2002); Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (2002); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City (1997); and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (1996). 

Her solo exhibition, Witnessing, opens at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery on September 28 at 8 pm and is on view until November 17, 2019. The exhibition is curated by Daina Augaitis.