Alicia Henry 1966-2024

ALICIA HENDRY CV

1966 Born in Chicago, IL

2024 Died in Nashville, TN

EDUCATION

MFA Yale University School of Art

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

BFA The Art Institute of Chicago

SELECTED SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS 

2024 Alicia Henry + Fahamu Pecou, Grisham Gallery, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville AL, USA

2023 Alicia, Fisk University Galleries, Nashville, TN

‍ ‍Alicia Henry: Autonomous, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown MA, USA

‍ ‍Alicia Henry – In the viewing room, TrepanierBaer, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

2022 Witnessing, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada.

Witnessing, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC Canada

2021 Repercussions II, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas TX, USA To Whom It May Concern, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK 2020 and 2021, Zeitgeist, Nashville TN, USA Recent Works, Herron Galleries, Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana IN, USA 2020 Alicia Henry: 2012-2020, TrepanierBaer, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2019 Witnessing, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada 2017 Witness, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas TX, USA Home, Giertz Gallery, Parkland College, Champaign IL, USA 2012 There was a House, University of the South, Sewanee TN, USA 2009 The Walk, The University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery Knoxville, Knoxville TN, USA 2005 Alicia Henry, Northeastern Illinois University Gallery, Chicago IL, USA Tiwani Promotions Ltd 24 Cork Street Registered in England & London, W1S 3NG Wales No. 07646352 +44 2076313808 VAT No. GB129254217 tiwani.co.uk 2004 Alicia Henry, Rhodes College/ Clough- Hanson Gallery, Memphis TN, USA 2003 Alicia Henry, South Bend Regional Art Center, South Bend IN, USA Black and Blue, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville TN, USA 2000 Mostly, One Good Thing, New York NY, USA Alicia Henry: Untitled, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville TN, USA 1996 Objects, University of Illinois, Urbana IL, USA 1993 Figures, Universal Fine Objects Gallery, Provincetown MA, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2026 In Her Place, Frist Museum of Art, Nashville, TN

2025 A Conscious Relation: body/mind/movement, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK

‍ ‍Celebrating the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston SC, USA

2024 Alicia Henry + Fahamu Pecou, Grisham Gallery, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville AL, USA

‍ ‍Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston TX, USA

Land, Place, Identity: Selections From The Collection, Provincetown art association and museum, Provincetown, MA, USA Analogous: Alicia Henry, Luanne Martineau, Evan Penny, TrepanierBaer, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Alicia Henry: (Unknowing), Christian-Green Gallery, Art Galleries at Black Studies, St Austin TX, USA 2023 Kudzu Soliloquy, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, Alabama, USA 2022 Fuel And Lumber: 8, Laney Contemporary, Savannah, Georgia, USA Summer Stories, David Lusk gallery, Nashville TN, USA The Black Index, Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, New York NY, USA Tiwani Promotions Ltd 24 Cork Street Registered in England & London, W1S 3NG Wales No. 07646352 +44 2076313808 VAT No. GB129254217 tiwani.co.uk Piecework: Resistance and Healing in Contemporary Textile Art, Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, Massachusetts MA, USA The Black Index, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto CA, USA The Pattern of Patience, Marc Straus, New York NY, USA The Black Index, University Art Galleries at University of California, Irvine, Palo Alto Art Center, the Art Galleries at Black Studies at University of Texas, Austin, and the Hunter College Art Galleries, USA Piecework, Fruitland Museum, Harvard, MA 2021 Piecework: Resistance and Healing in Contemporary Textile Art, Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, Cambridge MA, USA The Black Index, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto CA, USA The Pattern of Patience, Marc Straus, New York NY, USA 2019 Intermittent Rivers, 13th Cuba Biennial, Matanzas, Cuba (Project of Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons), Cuba A Thousand Tomorrows, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta Biennial, Atlanta GA, USA Artists in Residence 1888-Present: Fisk Faculty and Alumni Show, Carl Van Vechten Art Gallery, Fisk University Galleries, Nashville TN, USA 2018 20 Collaboration in Book Art III, Nashville Public Library-Main Gallery, Nashville, TN, USA Continuity of Context: Five Artists in Dialogue with Cheekwood’s Collection, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, TN, USA Say It Loud, 22 London Gallery, Ashville, NC 2016 Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura of Art, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville TN, USA 20 Collaborations in Book Art II, Nashville Public Library-Main Gallery, Nashville TN, USA 2014 The Hunter’s Museum Invitational III, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga TN, USA 20 Collaboration in Book Art 1, Nashville Public Library/Main Gallery, Nashville TN, USA Real Cowgirls and Real Cowboys, Urban Individualist Studio, Richmond VA, USA Creative Legacy: African American in Tennessee, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville TN, USA 2013 Tapping the Third Realm, Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design and the Laband Art Gallery at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles CA, USA TABOO, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Tiwani Promotions Ltd 24 Cork Street Registered in England & London, W1S 3NG Wales No. 07646352 +44 2076313808 VAT No. GB129254217 tiwani.co.uk The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making their World, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Pennsylvania PA, USA 2012 Fragile, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville TN, USA 2011 Angels Without Wings, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University School of the Arts, Philadelphia PA, USA 2008 Fisk University Faculty Exhibition, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN 2007 Utility Trances, Flood Gallery Fine Art Center, Asheville NC, USA Former Fellows Exhibition, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown MA, USA A Short Story, Watkins School of Design, Nashville TN, USA Mask, Sewanee University, Sewanee TN, USA 2006 Outside-In, Inside-Out, 301 Space, Mobile AL, USA All About Women, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago IL, USA 2003 Art of Tennessee, Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville TN, USA Material Presence, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington IL, USA Fisk Faculty Exhibition, Carl Van Vechten Gallery, Nashville TN, USA Remembrance, Evanston Art Center, Evanston IL, USA 2002 Paper Cuts, Islip Museum, Islip NY, USA Flying Solo, Nashville International Airport, Nashville TN, USA Totally Art Centric 13, Bethlehem Centers of Nashville TN, USA The Carpenter Jr. Collection, Fifty Years of Supporting the New, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield CT, USA What a Doll, Central Washington University, Washington WA, USA Reactions, Exit Art, New York NY, USA 2000 Four Corners, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA Switchyard, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN From the Heart, Education Alliance Gallery, New York NY, USA Family Portrait, Art in General, New York NY, USA Tiwani Promotions Ltd 24 Cork Street Registered in England & London, W1S 3NG Wales No. 07646352 +44 2076313808 VAT No. GB129254217 tiwani.co.uk 1999 From Africa to America, William Regional Art Center, Abingdon, VA N4Art, Tennessee State University, Nashville TN, USA The Stroke, Exit Art/ First World Gallery, New York NY, USA Metaphor, Henry Street Settlement Abrons Art Center, New York NY, USA 1997 A Passion for Pictures, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY 1996 Charles H. Carpenter, Odyssey of a Collector, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA, USA 1992 Other Politics, Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod College 1991 On Target, Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 

Nicole Hester, “In Her Place’: A Curated Exploration of Nashville’s Contemporary Women Artists,” The Tennessean, February 5, 2026

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, LECTURES 

2025 2017 Crossroads Public Art Resident, WSW, Mural Project

2016 1858 Prize for Contemporary Art 2014 Joan Mitchell Foundation 2002 Greece Residency (Spring) 2000-2001 Guggenheim Fellowship Art in General Residency (Fall) 1993 MacDowell Art Colony (Summer) 1991-1993 Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (Fellowship) 1992 Tiwani Promotions Ltd 24 Cork Street Registered in England & London, W1S 3NG Wales No. 07646352 +44 2076313808 VAT No. GB129254217 tiwani.co.uk Hillwood Art Museum 1989-1991 Ford Foundation Fellowship 1990 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture 1986-1988 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Merit Award