Alicia Lisa Brown
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Alicia Lisa Brown is a contemporary Jamaican painter and educator. She is a graduate of Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts and the New York Academy of Art. She currently resides in Florida.
Early life and education
[edit]Alicia Lisa Brown (recognized as "Alicia Brown") is a Jamaican artist born in 1982.[1] In 2009, she earned her BFA in Painting and a diploma in Art Education from Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts.[1] She worked as a secondary teacher for a few years before moving to New York in 2012 and enrolling in the New York Academy of Art's graduate program. She received her MFA in painting in 2014.[1] She worked as a college professor in Jamaica for half a decade[2] before returning to the U.S. and establishing herself as a full time-artist in Florida.[3]
Style and themes
[edit]Alicia Lisa Brown has a is figurative, realist art style. Her work features black men and women. These subjects have been historically ignored or misrepresented in the portraiture genre. She often presents figures in relation to a nature environment and/or adorned in nature. Her work tackles themes of belonging, adaptation, migration and diaspora.
Artistic career
[edit]Residencies
[edit]Source:[4]
- 2017- Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ Residency
- 2013- LIA Artists’ Residency, Leipzig, Germany
Awards
[edit]Source:[4]
- 2017- Dawn Scott Memorial Award, 2017 Jamaica Biennial
- 2004- Two Bronze medals award, Jamaica Cultural Development art competition
- 2003- Bronze medal and merit certificate award, Jamaica Cultural Development art competition
Grants
[edit]Source:[4]
- 2021- Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Artist Grant
- 2019- Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Artist Grant
- 2014- LCU Fund for Women Education Grant
- 2013- Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
Solo exhibitions
[edit]- 2025- Alicia Brown: Caribbean Transformers. Becoming and Being in the New World, Richard M. Ross Art Museum, Delaware, Ohio
- 2023- Alicia Brown: Coming to 'Merica: Invasive Species, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, New York
- 2022- 'What About the Men, Alicia Brown', UUU ART COLLECTIVE, Rochester New York, USA
- 2020- ‘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
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Alicia Brown". National Gallery of Jamaica. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
- ^ Stories, Local (2021-11-04). "Check Out Alicia Brown's Story". voyagemia.com. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
- ^ "Survival Stories through Portrait Painting: A Conversation with Alicia Brown". The Latinx Project at NYU. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
- ^ a b c "Alicia Brown | Coming to 'Merica: Invasive Species". Winston Wächter Fine Art. Retrieved 2025-05-06.