ALICIA BROWN
Alicia Brown (b. 1981, St Ann, Jamaica) attended the Edna Manley College of the Visual Performing Arts, Kingston, Jamaica, and received a diploma in Art Education in 2003 and a BFA in Painting in 2009. Brown received her MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2014 and was awarded a residency scholarship in Leipzig Germany from the school.
Alicia was one of the winners of the Dawn Scott Memorial Award in the Jamaica Biennial 2017. She is a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, and LCU Foundation Grants. She has participated in numerous group shows in Jamaica, USA and Europe.
She has had solo shows at Studio 174 in Kingston, Jamaica and Virago Gallery, Seattle Washington. Her work has been featured in “Hyperallergic,” “Painting the Figure Now 2019,” “The Jamaican Gleaner” and “Observer,” “Caribbean Quarterly Journal” and other publications. Her work is in the collections of Steven Alan Bennett, Imago Mundi, George N’Namdi, and Brenda Thompson among others.
Alicia Brown uses traditional and contemporary painting techniques and iconographic references to examine race, cultural identity, adaptation, beauty and social status.
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