Alicia Eggert

Alicia Eggert is an American interdisciplinary artist whose work gives material form to language and time, the powerful but invisible forces that shape our realities. She derives her inspiration from physics and philosophy, and her sculptures often co-opt the form and structure of commercial signage to communicate messages that inspire reflection and wonder. Alicia creates flashing neon signs that illuminate the way light travels across space and time, or reveal the relationship between reality and possibility. They have been installed on building rooftops in Philadelphia, on bridges in Amsterdam, and on uninhabited islands in Maine, beckoning us to ponder our place in the world and the role we play in it. Like a navigational sign, Alicia’s artwork asks us to recognize where we are now as individuals and as a society, to identify where we want to be in the future, and to imagine the routes we can take to get there. Alicia's work has been exhibited at notable institutions nationally and internationally, including the CAFA Art Museum in Beijing, the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, the Corning Museum of Glass in New York, the Amsterdam Light Festival, the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2012) at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Sculpture By the Sea in Sydney, Australia, and many more. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Galeria Fernando Santos (Porto, Portugal), The MAC (Dallas, TX), T+H Gallery (Boston, MA), Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA), and Artisphere (Arlington, VA). Alicia’s work is represented by Galeria Fernando Santos in Porto, and Liliana Bloch Gallery in Dallas. She is currently a Presidential Early Career Professor of Studio Art and the Sculpture Program Coordinator in the College of Visual Arts & Design at the University of North Texas. She lives with her son, Zephyr, in Denton, TX.