Website: www.alicialisabrown.com
Email: alicialisabrown@yahoo.com
Alicia Brown is a Jamaican contemporary realist painter living and working in Sarasota, Florida. Renowned for her captivating work that seamlessly blends skillful technique with profound story telling. Her art goes beyond Aesthetics, expanding the conversation around cultural identity, space and belonging. Referencing historical and present regimes’ influences on the “other”, Brown invites the viewer to engage with the complexities of identity, offering a though-provoking exploration that transcends artistic and cultural boundaries.
Brown holds a BFA in Painting and a diploma in Art Education from Edna Manley College of the Visual Performing Arts (2003), (2009) and an MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art (2014).
Brown works primarily with painting, and her multidisciplinary practice extends to drawings, sculptures and installation.
Alicia has earned recognition through various accolades, including the Dawn Scott Memorial award from the Jamaica Biennial 2017, two Elizabeth Foundation Grants in 2019 and 2021, and grants from the Joan Brady Foundation and LCU Foundation. Her dedication to her craft has led her to participate in renowned residencies such as the Leipzig International Art Program in Germany, Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ residency in Massachusetts and Elsewhere artists’ residency in Colorado.
Her extensive exhibition history includes participation in the Jamaica Biennial in 2021 and 2017, Prizm Art Fair in Miami, the Victoria Gallery and Museum in London, the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art and the Springfield Museum of Art in the USA. Noteworthy solo exhibitions include shows at Winston Wachter Gallery in New York (2023), UUU Art Collective in Rochester, NY (2022), Virago Gallery in Seattle Washington (2019), and Studio 174 in Kingston, Jamaica (2016).
Alicia Brown’s artistic journey has been documented in prestigious publications such as New American Paintings, American Art Collector, Colossal, Painting the Figure Now magazine, ArtIT Voice of Artists Magazine, Caribbean Quarterly Journal, The Jamaica Observer newspaper, and more.
Beyond exhibitions and publications, Alicia’s art finds a place of distinction in notable collections, including the Bennet Collection of Women Realists, The New Diversity Museum of Art and Culture, Pittsburgh, Jamaica: Making the Theresa Roberts Collection, London, England, LIA International Art Program Collection, Leipzig, Germany and various private collections.
2014 — Master in Fine Arts, MFA, New York Academy of Art, New York, USA
2009 — Bachelor of Fine Arts, BFA, Painting, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Jamaica
2003 — Diploma, Art Education, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Jamaica
2023
Coming to ‘Merica: Invasive Species,’
Winston Wachter Fine Art Gallery, New York, New York, USA
2022
What about the men?
UUU Art Collective, Rochester, New York, USA
2019
What if the man in the new world needs mimicry as design, both as defence and lure?’
Virago Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA
2016
Copy and Placed,
Studio 174, Kingston, Jamaica
2022– 2023
Mirror Mirror, traveling exhibition,
Springfield Museum of Art, OH; Wooster College Museum, OH; Allen County Museum, OH, USA
Women of the Diaspora,
Softwater Gallery, Florida, USA
2022
Pressure, Kingston Biennial 2022,
National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Beyond Seeing,
M Contemporary Gallery, Detroit, USA
Jamaica Making: The Theresa Roberts Art Collection,
Victoria Gallery and Museum, UK
2021
Transformation: objects and images in relation,
Clemente Centre, New York, NY
One World: International Women Artists of Florida,
Crealde School of Art, Winter Park, Florida
Parallels and Peripheries: Practice and Presence,
New York Academy of Art
Contemporary Figuration, Virtual exhibition,
Abend Gallery, Colorado, USA
2020
Contemporary Figuration, Virtual exhibition,
Abend Gallery
Miniature Show, Virtual exhibition,
Abend Gallery, USA
Painting the Figure Now,
Wasau Museum of Contemporary Art, USA
Polycephaly, Virtual Exhibition,
Sanitary Tortilla Factory, New Mexico, USA
Paint: medium as power in time of crisis,
Barrett Art Centre, New York
Summer Exhibition 2020, Virtual show,
New York Academy of Art, NY
2019
Take five,
N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI, USA
2018
Real Men,
New York Academy of art, Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Miami, USA
Little But Fierce,
ChaShaMa, New York, NY, USA
Conflicted Perceptions,
Grovesnor Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2017
Jamaica Biennial,
National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Single Fair,
Highline stages, New York, NY
LCU Fund for Women Education fundraising show, Riverpark, New York, NY
Jamaica Spirituality,
St Stephen Walbrook Church, London, England
Our Daily Armour,
Virago Gallery, Seattle WA, USA
2015
Young Talent,
National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
LCU Fund for Women Education fundraising show,
Riverpark, New York, NY
2014
NYAA Summer Show,
Flowers Gallery, New York, NY
MFA Thesis Exhibition,
New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Painting at the Metropolitan Museum Show,
New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Hudson Rising Project,
New York, NY
LCU Fund, Student Mixer show,
New York, NY
2013
Leipzig Residency Show,
New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
LIA Summer Show,
Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
Extreme Drawings,
New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Deck the walls,
New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Experimental Show,
New York Academy of Art, New York
2012
Jamaica Biennial,
National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Single Fare,
RH Gallery, New York, NY
Show of Heads,
New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Deck the Walls,
New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Shout and 4play,
Studio 174, Kingston, Jamaica
Art Fresh,
Mutual Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2011
Quartet,
Bolivar Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
Group Show,
Betty Bolivar Gallery, Sarasota, Florida, USA
Passion,
Pegasus Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica,
Rejuvenate,
Studio 174, Kingston, Jamaica
2009
Question me Black,
Studio 174, Kingston, Jamaica
Impressions in Blue,
Studio 174, Kingston, Jamaica
2003
Final year Show,
Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Jamaica
2002
First Time,
Pegasus Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2023
Art on Paper, Pier 36,
Winston Wachter Fine Art Gallery, New York
2021
Prizm,
Art Basel Miami, Virtual Exhibition, Miami Florida
2018
Prizm,
Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Florida
2022
Elsewhere Studios, Parent Artist Residency
2021
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Artist Grant
2019
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Artist Grant
2017
Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ Residency
2017
Dawn Scott Memorial Award, 2017 Jamaica Biennial
2014
LCU Fund for Women Education Grant
2013
LIA Artists’ Residency, Leipzig, Germany
2013
New York Academy of Art Student Service Scholarship
2013
Joan Brady Grant
2013
LCU Fund for Women Education Grant
2004
Two Bronze medals award, Jamaica Cultural Development Art competition
2003
Bronze medal and merit certificate award, Jamaica Cultural Development Art competition
The New Diversity Museum of Art and Culture, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
The Bennett Art Collection of Women Realists, San Antonio Texas, USA
Jamaica Making: Theresa Roberts Collection, London, England
LIA International Art Program Collection, Leipzig, Germany
New American Paintings, South Issue, No.166, July 2023
Patchwork, Essays and Interviews on Caribbean Visual Culture, Jacqueline Bishop, 2023
Interventions, Volume 1, the LatinX Project at NYU, Survival Stories through Portrait Painting,
Petrina Dacres, 2022
Artsy, Women Artists to Watch, 2022
Colossal, Balloons, Plants, and Bubble Wrap Become Powerful Subversive Symbols in Alicia Brown’s Portraits, Grace Ebert, 2022
Canvas Rebel, Stories and Insights, Meet Alicia Brown, 2022
Fine Art Connoisseur, Why Figure Paintings Still Matter, Fine Art today, 2022
Fine Art Connoisseur, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation: Helping Artists Emerge, 2021
VoyageMIA, Local Stories, Check out Alicia Brown’s Story, 2021
ARTIT, Voice of Artists Issue 12, 2021
Jamaica Observer, Repeating Islands, Alicia Brown: Revising colonial narratives within the languages of Portraiture and Painting, Jacqueline Bishop, 2020
Painting The Figure Now, Poets and Artists, issue 104, curated by Victoria Selbach, 2019
FindYello, My Jamaica: The Artist’s Life- Alicia Brown, Chantel Dacosta, 2017
Caribbean Quarterly, a journal of Caribbean culture, Mimicry and Acceptance-Alicia Brown, Volume 62, No. 2, Kim Robinson Walcott, 2016
