Bio

Alicia Grullón is a US-born Dominican conceptual artist, whose work critiques the politics of presence in political, environmental, and social spheres through photography, video, performance, writing and social practice. At the core of her practice is a focus on mapping and exploring the metaphorical and emblematic connections between place and our bodies. She has exhibited and performed nationally and abroad and is a recipient of numerous awards including Creative Time’s Research and Development Fellowship, Franklin Furnace Archives, The Mellon Initiative Community Fellowship at the New School and the Colene Brown Art Prize, among others. She has contributed to Routledge publications on social practice and feminism as well as essays on Verso Books blog, the LatinX Project and Hyperallergic. Alicia is Bronx Museum of the Arts AIM Alum. She holds a BFA in Drama from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and an MFA in Intermedia Design from the State University of New York at New Paltz. Alicia was awarded an honorary doctorate degree in fine arts from Moore College of Art and Design in 2021. She is based in New York City where she grew up.