ALICIA McCARTHY
Alicia McCarthy was born in Oakland, California in 1969. McCarthy received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1994 and MFA from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2007. She is known for her signature style of vibrantly colored, often woven patterns on mixed media panels. McCarthy has exhibited internationally and has received numerous awards, including the Academy of Art and Sciences, SFMOMA's SECA Art Award, and the Artadia Award. Her work is included in a number of important public and private collections, such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oakland Museum of California, Facebook Headquarters in Menlo Park, California, MIMA the Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art in Brussels, and the American Academy of Arts & Letters in New York City. The artist lives and works in Oakland. Alicia is also represented by Jack Hanley in New York and V1 in Copenhagen.
ALICIA McCARTHY
1969 Born in Oakland, CA
Present 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
Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2020
Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Ensemble, Bim Bam 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
Snobody, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
2014
Alicia McCarthy + Jenny Sharaf, Johansson Projects, Oakland
2013
Jack Hanley Gallery, New York
2010
Jack Hanley Gallery, New York
2008
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
2006
Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles
2005
RARE Gallery, New York
2004
RARE Gallery, New York
2003
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
Midway Gallery, St. Paul, Minneapolis
2002
RARE Gallery, New York
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
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
Off the Grid, curated by Susette Min, EN EM Art Space, Sacramento
2014
Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California, Oakland Museum of California Art, Oakland
Pierogi X X: Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Pierogi, New York
All of Us Together, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco
Way Out West, The Art City Project, San Francisco
Looking Back: The Eighth White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York
New New New Abstraction, curated by Jenny Sharaf, Toomey Tourell Fine Arts, San Francisco
2013
Artifacts of a Life Lived by the Living (To Live), The Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles
Energy That Is All Around: Mission School: Chris Johanson, Margaret Kilgallen, Alicia McCarthy, Barry McGee, Ruby Neri, Water and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco and Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York Independents;
Jenny Holzer, Sarah Braman, Elizabeth Peyton, Betty Tompkins, Alicia McCarthy, Hanna Liden, Katherine Bernhardt & Margaret Kilgallen, V1 Gallery, Denmark
2010
Final San Francisco Show, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
2009
A Mind Meld is a Terrible Thing to Waste, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
2007
In the Fullness of Time: Celebrating Twenty Years, The Luggage Store, San Francisco
2005
Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles
Other Possibilities, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles
1st Year Show, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley
2004
Space is the Place, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley
III, The Luggage Store, San Francisco
San Francisco Show, New Image Art, Los Angeles
SAMA-SAMA-TOGETHER, Yogakarta, Indonesia
10 x 20 10th Anniversary Show in collaboration with Ruby Neri, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2003
No War, The Luggage Store
San Francisco Goop, New Image Art, Los Angeles
2002
Boiled and Fried, Pierogi, Brooklyn
2001
Widely Unknown, Deitch Projects, New York
Pierogi Flat Files, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Fancsico
Dallas Museum, Dallas
Studio One, Brooklyn
2000
San Francisco Drawing Show, New Image Art, curated by Alicia McCarthy and Chris Johanson, Los Angeles
New Work by Chris Johanson and Alicia McCarthy, RARE Gallery, New York
Bay Area Now II, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
1999
World Five, New Image Art, Los Angeles
Monster Ballads, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco
Bricolage, The Luggage Store, San Francisco
Three Open Houses, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco New Image Art, Los Angeles
1998
Catastrophy, Gallery Lescombe, San Francisco
Where the Bitter End Meets the Rainbow, with Carolyn Cooley, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Awards & Residencies
2019 Bedford Stuyvesant Art Residency (Bed Stuy Art Residency), Brooklyn, NY
2017 SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art) Award, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2013 Artadia Award, San Francisco, CA
1995 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1999 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Murals & Public Installations
2019 FM Smith Park Mural, Oakland, CA
2018 Market Street & 7th Street Mural, Sponsored by the Luggage Store Gallery and the Propper Hotel, San Francisco, CA
2017 San Francisco Art Institute Mural, Graduate Studio Space, Fort Mason Campus, 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
American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, New York
Facebook Headquarters, Menlo Park, CA
MIMA (Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art), Brussels, Belgium
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA