PERFORMANCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY
ALICIA SMITH
Alicia Smith is a Xicana Multidisciplinary Artist and Activist current fellow at the Tulsa Artist Fellowship in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from the University of Oklahoma with an emphasis in Contemporary Sculpture and Printmaking and her Masters of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her work utilizes ancestral prayer technologies, oral tradition, indigenous futurism and New Weird Science Fiction to interrogate colonial narratives and explore identity. Through this practice she advocates for cultural perpetuity as a response to the unfolding Anthropocene.
Smith’s work has been shown at Pulse Contemporary Art Fair in Miami, Untitled Art Fair in San Francisco and A.I.R. Gallery, Field Projects and Ortega y Gasset in New York City. Additionally she was a resident at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and her pieces have been included in the Kaddist Collection and the Whitney Museum of Art’s Special Collections.
“Receiving the Tulsa Artist Fellowship is such a gift that will equip me with the means to continue my work striving to be a good ancestor. It will empower me to experiment without limitations, allow me to push boundaries, grow, and create work that protects sacred knowledge from many communities for generations to come.”