ABOUT

Alicia Reyes McNamara completed their MFA at University of Oxford Ruskin School of Art in 2016. Their work has been included in Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2016). They were awarded the South London Gallery Graduate Residency 2016-17 and their exhibition ‘Nowhere Else’ was exhibited in the first floor galleries in 2017. They were commissioned to create a project as part of 2018 Communal Knowledge at The Showroom. They most recently was awarded an a-n bursary, a Jerwood Bursary, and the Bloomberg New Contemporaries Studio Residency at Hospitalfield. They had solo exhibitions at Niru Ratnam Gallery and Lismore Castle Arts this past year. And they are now showing at Whitechapel Gallery as part of The London Open 2022.

Alicia is based in London, but spends time between there and Chicago, where they are originally from. They are currently doing a residency at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture this summer, in rural Maine.