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Alicia Little
Born Cincinnati, OH 1990
Education
2018 MFA, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2013 BFA, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Residencies
2022 PADA Studios, Barreiro, Portugal
2018 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2024 Dialogue: Alicia Little and Erin McKenna, Sometimes Space, Ypsilanti, MI
2023 Slow and Clunky Decision Making, Houseguest Gallery, Louisville, KY
2021 Tiny Pedestal, Dream Clinic Project Space, Columbus, OH
2018 Michael Stillion and Alicia Little, The Summit Hotel, Cincinnati, OH
2018 Soft Talk, Farmer Family Gallery, The Ohio State University at Lima, Lima, OH
2017 Stand-Ups and Low Riders // Fragments and the End, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, OH
2016 Pattern and Dissonance, Collaboration with Cat Mailloux, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH
2015 Heavy Breathing, Neon Heater, Findlay, OH
2014 Dialogue with Objects, Collaboration with Erin McKenna, Skylab, Columbus, OH
2014 Lumps and Lines (with Evan Halter), Convergys Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2014 Living Arrangements, Live-In Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 It So Happened, curated by Kellie Bornhoft, Dumke Arts Plaza, Weber State University, Ogden, UT
2022 034, PADA Gallery and Studios, Barreiro, Portugal
2022 Holding Pattern, curated by Nick Larsen, Holland Projects, Reno, NV
2021 "I Am a Painting" with FRC Collective, Hearsay:Heresy, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
2021 Forbidden Fruit, Curated by Hilary Doyle, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA (catalog only)
2021 Flat Files, Collar Works, Troy, NY
2021 House Party: Reunion, Chidlaw Gallery, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
2021 Flat Files: 2021, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Mass, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, South Korea
2019 Studio Friends, Glave Kocen, Richmond, VA
2018 Groundwork, Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus, OH
2018 Thesis 2018, Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH
2017 The Other Thing, Curated by Matt Distel and Michael Stillion, The Carnegie, Covington, KY
2017 Art Children in 3-D, Clay Street Press, Cincinnati, OH
2016 Relative to You, Olentangy Riverbank, Columbus, OH
2016 Does This Work for Everyone?, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH
2014 Trump L'oiel: Paintings in Other Media, curated by Ian Breidenbach, The Blue House, Dayton, OH
2014 Extraordinary Flecks and Things Butting Up, LOHIOH, Cincinnati, OH
2013 Quickies by Important People, Third Party Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2013 Laughing Out of Turn, Convergys Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2013 Important People Presents: Two Takes, Collaboration with Matthew Tanner Browne, Semantics,
Cincinnati, OH
Video Screenings
2020 Experimental Shorts, Rhizome DC, Virtual Microcinema
2017 Miloti Program One, The Mini Microcinema, Cincinnati, OH
2017 Ohio Shorts, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
2017 Miloti Program One, Milo Arts Studios, Columbus, OH
Collections
Capital One, Richmond, VA
Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Artist Talks and Conferences
2024 “Color in the Expanded Field”, Session Chair, Color Expanded, Mid America College Art Association (MACAA) Virtual Conference, hosted by Auburn University, AL
2023 Lecture for Advanced Painting Class, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
2022 "Supplemental Hands and Other Arrangements", Session Chair, Play, Pleasure, and The Arrangement of Things, Mid-America College Art Association (MACAA) Virtual Conference, hosted by Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
2020 MAAE Program, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
2019 Kutztown, University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, PA
2017 RoyGBiv Gallery, Columbus, OH
2013 Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Bibliography
Louisville Public Media, Scott Recker, Vibrance and unpredictability shine in an art show in Louisville’s South End
Bmore Art, Michael Anthony Farley, The Mythical, Mystical, and Heretical at SPRING/BREAK 2021
Bluestem Magazine, Alicia Little
City Beat, Kathy Schwartz, The Carnegie Adds Season Long Shows
Selected Grants and Awards
2022 LEO Lecturer's Professional Development Fund Grant
-funding for MACAA Conference and PADA residency in Portugal
2020 Virginia Artist Relief Fellowship, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
2018 Aminah Robinson Professional Development and Research Grant, Greater Columbus Arts Council
-Funding for Vermont Studio Center residency
2017 Alumni Grant for Graduate Research and Scholarship, Ohio State University
-Funding for thesis exhibition
2017 Arts and Humanities Research Grant, Ohio State University
-Travel to the Whitney Biennial, Venice Biennale, and Documenta in Athens, Greece
2016 Arts and Humanities Research Grant, Ohio State University
-Travel to Los Angeles for contemporary art research
2013 Stephen H. Wilder Traveling Scholarship, Art Academy of Cincinnati
-Travel to London, Paris, Athens, and Santorini Greece
Exhibitions and Screenings Curated
2021 RhizomeDC Microcinema Outdoor Screening, CampSITE Sculpture Park, Cincinnati, OH
2021 Will Connally and Jenny Fine, RhizomeDC Virtual Microcinema, Washington, D.C.
2021 You Were an Envelope, RhizomeDC Virtual Microcinema, Washington, D.C.
2020 Index, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
2018 My Back Hurts, Intro to Sculpture class student exhibition, 840 Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
2017 Art Children In 3-D, Co-Curator, Clay Street Press, Cincinnati, Ohio
2016 Relative to You, Second Year MFA Exhibition, Organized with Cat Mailloux, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2014 Extraordinary Flecks and Things Butting Up, exhibition of paintings and sculptures, LOHIOH, Cincinnati, OH
Teaching and Professional Experience
2024-present, Assistant Professor, Department of Art + Design, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
2024-present, Co-President, Mid America College Art Association (MACAA)
2021-2024 Lecturer, Penny W. Stamps School of Art + Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2019-2021 Adjunct Faculty, Art Foundations, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2018 Adjunct Faculty, The University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, School of Art, Cincinnati, OH
2018 Lecturer, Department of Art, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2015-2018 Graduate Teaching Associate, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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