Tiwani Contemporary now representing Alicia Henry
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Tiwani Contemporary now representing Alicia Henry
Installation view of Alicia Henry's To Whom It May Concern at Tiwani Contemporary (26 May - 3 July 2021). Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary.



LONDON.- During the past twenty years, the Nashville-based artist has created work that departs from Western ideas of portraiture denoting a likeness or a construction of a subject. Her figurative, mixed-media sculptural work foregrounds the human figure in isolation and interaction and in turn is conceived of by the artist as belonging to both a single and communal body. Her evocative, spectral work explores metaphorical and formal connections between visibility and identity.

Alicia Henry’s compositions show representations of unidentifiable individuals and groups of people based on a range of composite references including but not limited by her own memories, African masks, paper-dolls, European clowning traditions, American minstrelsy and everyday life and events.

As her enigmatic, graceful figures assert their gaze, Henry’s tragicomical work negotiates a space between spectacle, performance and testimony exploring how identity, family, gender, community, and societal differences play out in the real world and register their complexities and contradictions on the body.

A native of Illinois, Alicia Henry received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Yale University School of Art. She is currently Professor of Art at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Her work was recently on view at Tiwani Contemporary for her first UK solo exhibition To Whom It May Concern and recently the subject of a solo museum touring show in Canada at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (2021); Southern Alberta Art Gallery (2019); The Power Plant (2019). Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary in Sydney; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.

She has received numerous awards, fellowships, and grants, including the Joan Mitchell Painter and Sculptor grant (2013); the Guggenheim Fellowship (2000-2001), and the Ford Foundation Fellowship (1989-1991); residencies at the prestigious 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 was granted the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art award (2016) and the Center of Excellence for the Creative Art Fellowship (2016-2017)










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