Alice Leora Briggs
Lubbock, TX
www.aliceleorabriggs.com
Education
1981 MFA, painting, minor printmaking, University of Iowa
Public Collections
Arkansas Art Center
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Denver Art Museum
El Paso Museum of Art
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, De Young
Flatbed Press, Austin, TX
Library of Congress, Rare Books/Special Collections
Limerick School of Art and Design, Limerick, Ireland
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Galeria mesta Bratislavy, Slovak Republic
Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Phoenix
Art Museum
Richard M. Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University
Rochester Institute of Technology Libraries, Cary Collection
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale AZ
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, UALR Gallery
University of Arizona, Special Collections, Art of the Book Collection
University of Chicago Library Special Collections, Rare Books
University of Iowa Museum of Art
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Blue Heron Press Collection,
Artists’ Books
University of New Mexico Art Museum
University of Oxford, Bodleian Library
The Tia Collection, Santa Fe, NM
Recent Solo Exhibitions
2016 ShadowLand, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2015 University of Texas at Arlington; The Room, Flatbed Press, Austin, TX
2014 Asylum, Evoke Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2013 Bipolar, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, AZ; In the Wake of Juárez, University of New
Mexico
2013 Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM; Surface Tension, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2013 La Linea, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
2012 Near Impunity, Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Center for Visual Arts, Augustana
College, Sioux Falls, SD
2012 Abecedario de Juárez, Nau-Haus Art, Houston, TX
2010 Ojos bien abiertos/Eyes Wide Open, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2010 Hollow Ground, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX
2010 Dreamland, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
Grants, Honors, Residencies
2016 Tulsa Artist Fellowship
2015 Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, Honorable Mention, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
2013 Artist Resident, Casa Chuck, San Antonio, TX
2011 Fulbright Scholar, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia; Artist in Residence (sponsored by Joan
Mitchell Foundation), Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO;
2010 Featured Speaker, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX (Dreamland: The Way Out of Juarez); Guest Lecturer, El Paso
Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
2008 Artist-in-Residence, Border Arts Residency, La Union, NM (Aug 2008-May 2009)
2008 Dallas Museum of Art’s Otis and Virginia Davis Dozier Travel Award (Poland) Texas Prize, Wichita Falls Museum of
Art, Wichita Falls, TX
2004 Artists Project Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix AZ
2003 Arizona Artist Materials Fund Grant, Phoenix Art Museum
2002 Grant, International Exchange, Tucson Pima Arts Council
2001 Visual Artist Fellowship, Tucson Pima Arts Council, Tucson, AZ;Guest Lecture, Tucson Museum of Art in conjunction
with Industry of Memory
1999 George McCullough Cash Award, Arizona Biennial, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
1996 Individual Artist's Grant, Utah Arts Council
1994 Visual Artist Fellowship, Utah Arts Council, Salt Lake City, UT