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Alicia McCarthy
(b. 1969) lives and works in Oakland, CA
EDUCATION
2005 MFA, University of California at Berkeley, CA
1994 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1993 New York Studio School Program, New York, NY
1989-1991 California State University at Humboldt, CA
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2020
Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Baimba Gallery, Paris, France
2019
Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY
Alicia McCarthy, Alice Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Alicia McCarthy: No Straight Lines, Wexner Center for the Arts, OH
2018
Alicia McCarthy + Ruby Neri, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017
Fall, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY
Alicia McCarthy, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015
Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY
Snobody, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014
Alicia McCarthy + Jenny Sharaf, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA
2013
Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006
Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005
RARE Gallery, New York, NY
2004
RARE Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Midway Gallery, St. Paul, Minneapolis, MN
Group Exhibitions
2019
Trade Syllables, Martinos Pandrossou, Athens, Greece
2018
Beyond the Streets, LA
California
Love, Galerie Droste, Wuppertal, Germany
what’s MY line, Transmitter, New York, NY
Linear Abstraction, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
Superposition curated by Johnny Abrahams, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Terribly Vulnerable and Terribly Hard, Cooper Cole, Toronto, CA
About Abstraction: Bay Area Women Painters, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
SECA Art Award Exhibition, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Air 5-Year Anniversary Exhibition, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Margins, Gutters, Bleeds and Creeps, CAPITAL, San Francisco, CA
About Abstraction: Bay Area Women Painters, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
SECA Art Award Exhibition, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Air 5-Year Anniversary Exhibition, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Margins, Gutters, Bleeds and Creeps, CAPITAL, San Francisco, CA
2016
30th Anniversary Exhibition, Attics of My Life, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2015
Patterned Chaos, Cinders, Brooklyn, NY
Off the Grid, curated by Susette Min, EN EM Art Space, Sacramento, CA
2014
Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California, Oakland Museum of California Art, Oakland, CA
Pierogi X X: Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Pierogi, New York, NY
All of Us Together, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA Way Out West, The Art City Project, San Francisco, CA
Looking Back: The Eighth White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York, NY
New New New Abstraction, curated by Jenny Sharaf, Toomey Tourell Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2013
Artifacts of a Life Lived by the Living (To Live), The Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Energy That Is All Around: Mission School, Water and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA and Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
Independents, V1 Gallery, Denmark
Final San Francisco Show, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010
A Mind Meld is a Terrible Thing to Waste, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009
In the Fullness of Time: Celebrating Twenty Years, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
2007
Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Other Possibilities, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1st Year Show, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2004
Space is the Place, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley,CA
III, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Show, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA
SAMA-SAMA-TOGETHER, Yogakarta, Indonesia
10 x 20 10th Anniversary Show in collaboration with Ruby Neri, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2003
No War, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
Goop, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Boiled and Fried, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
2001
Widely Unknown, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Pierogi Flat Files, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Fancsico, CA; Dallas Museum, Dallas, TX and Studio One, Brooklyn, NY
2000
San Francisco Drawing Show, New Image Art, curated by Alicia McCarthy and Chris Johanson, Los Angeles, CA
New Work by Chris Johanson and Alicia McCarthy, RARE Gallery, New York, NY
Bay Area Now II, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1999
World Five, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA
Monster Ballads, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bricolage, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
Three Open Houses, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA
1998
Catastrophy, Gallery Lescombe, San Francisco, CA
Where the Bitter End Meets the Rainbow, with Carolyn Cooley, San Francisco Arts Commission. Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Residences
1999
Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1995
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York, NY
Awards
2017
SECA Art Award, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2013
Artadia Award, San Francisco, CA
Curatorial Projects
2000
San Francisco Drawing Show, curated by Alicia McCarthy and Chris Johanson, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA
Public Collections
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art, Brussels, Belgium
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Facebook Headquarters, Menlo Park, CA
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA