Alicia Eggert

Alicia Eggert (b. 1981) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work gives material form to language and time, the powerful but invisible forces that shape our perception of reality. She derives her inspiration from physics and philosophy, and work often co-opts the methods and materials associated with commercial signage to communicate messages that inspire reflection and wonder. She has made flashing neon signs that illuminate the way light travels across spacetime, billboards that allow Forever to appear and disappear in the fog, and signs that reveal the relationship between reality and possibility. These sculptures have been installed on rooftops in Russia, on bridges in Amsterdam, and on uninhabited islands in Maine, beckoning people to ponder their place in the world and the role they play in it.

Alicia's work has been commissioned and exhibited by notable institutions nationally and internationally, including the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, the CAFA Art Museum in Beijing, the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, the Corning Museum of Glass in New York, the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History in New Mexico, the Telfair Museums in Savannah, and many more. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Liliana Bloch Gallery (Dallas, TX), Artspace (Raleigh, NC), and Galeria Fernando Santos (Porto, Portugal). Alicia is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including a TED Fellowship, a Long Now Foundation Fellowship, a Washington Award from the S&R Foundation, a Direct Artist Grant from the Harpo Foundation, an Artist Microgrant from the Nasher Sculpture Center, and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Maine Arts Commission. She has been an artist in residence at Google Tilt Brush, Sculpture Space, True/False Film Festival, and the Tides Institute and Museum of Art. In 2020, she was added to the Fulbright Specialist Roster by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Eggert’s work is in the collection of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, New Holland Island (St. Petersburg, Russia), the Light Art Collection (Amsterdam, Netherlands), the City of Houston’s Civic Art Program, the HALL Arts Hotel, IBM, Capital One, and more. She is currently an Associate Professor of Studio Art at the University of North Texas. She is represented by Galeria Fernando Santos in Porto, Portugal, and Liliana Bloch Gallery in Dallas. She lives in Garland, Texas.

Statement

My work gives material form to language and time, those powerful but invisible forces that shape our perception of reality. As a conceptual artist, I have always gravitated toward language as a sculptural material. I like to think I sculpt words the way other artists sculpt clay or wood. My creative practice is motivated by an existential pursuit to understand the seemingly linear and finite nature of human life within an almost infinite universe. I draw my inspiration from physics and philosophy, but I use simple, everyday words as points of entry into concepts that feel beyond my intellectual grasp. I give those words tangible forms so people can experience them in real space and time, because I believe we understand an idea more fully if we can experience it physically.

Not only do I use language to express meaning, I also take advantage of the way meaning is embedded in a material, and the way different materials each have their own duration or lifespan. I explore the conditions of possibility afforded by a broad range of media, from cut flowers to carved stone, from flashing neon signs to interactive inflatable sculptures that require people to hold hands to bring the fabric to life. I often co-opt the styles and structures of commercial signage to communicate messages that inspire a sense of wonder or reflection, using language that I hope most people can understand. After quickly and effectively grabbing your attention, the rhythm of a flashing neon sign grounds you in the present and makes you more aware of time’s passing. The flowers wilt, the steel rusts, and the inflatable eventually returns to a crumpled pile of fabric on the ground. Light takes time to travel, so by the time it reaches your eyes everything you see is technically an image of the past.

My artistic practice has grown to focus on executing temporary public art projects that address today’s most pressing issues, such as climate change, reproductive rights, and gender equality. I use my work as a platform to provoke discussion about complex topics in ways that are accessible and inspirational, and push people to embrace the urgency of “now.” I install my sculptures in environments that engage a broad public audience – on the steps of the Supreme Court, on building rooftops in Russia, on bridges in Amsterdam, and on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro – where they beckon us to ponder our place in the world and the role we play in it. These specific geographical, cultural and political landscapes provide context for the work’s message, allowing its meaning to change from place to place, and over time.

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Education

2009 Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture/Dimensional Studies, Alfred University, Alfred, NY 

2004 Bachelor of Science in Interior Design, Magna Cum Laude, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

2003 Denmark International Study Program, Interior Design, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Academic Appointments

2020 - Present    Associate Professor of Studio Art (tenured), College of Visual Arts & Design,

    University of North Texas, Denton, TX

2019 - 2020      Presidential Early Career Professor of Studio Art and Sculpture Program Coordinator, 

    College of Visual Arts & Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

2015 - 2019      Assistant Professor of Studio Art and Sculpture Program Coordinator, 

    College of Visual Arts & Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

2010 - 2014       Assistant Professor of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME

2009 - 2010        Adjunct Instructor, School of Art and Design, Alfred University, Alfred, NY

Museum Exhibitions ( * denotes a solo museum exhibition)

2024 All the Light You See, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX (Forthcoming) *

2022 This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art 

Museum, Washington, D.C.

2021 Diálogos com Amadeo (6 Artists, 7 Exhibitions), Municipal Museum Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, 

Amarante, Portugal *

2020 Machines of Futility: Unproductive Technologies, Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA

The History of Now (with Ryan Strand Greenberg), Philadelphia Museum of Art, 

Philadelphia, PA

2019 New Glass Now, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York

2013 O’Clock. Time design, design time, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China 

2012 ISEA2012: Machine Wilderness, Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Albuquerque, NM 

Contemporary Women Artists XVI: Longevity, St. Louis University Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO

2011 O’Clock. Time design, design time, Triennale Design Museum, Milan, Italy 

2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

2010 Fit to be Bound, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

Solo + Two-Person Gallery Exhibitions

2023 Russell Hill Rogers Gallery, University of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, TX (Forthcoming)

2022 The Blue of Distance, Sienna Patti Gallery, Lenox, MA

This Present Moment, Long Now Foundation, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San 

Francisco, CA

2021 Ever-Present, New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL

The Time Becoming, Artspace, Raleigh, NC

Conditions of Possibility, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX

2019 Timelike, Spacelike, Lightlike, Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto, Portugal

Alicia Eggert & Robert Hodge, The Gallery at UTA, University of Texas at Arlington, 

Arlington, TX 

2018 Between Being and Becoming, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas

2017 Signs and Wonders, Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto, Portugal

Partial Visibility, The MAC, Dallas, TX

2016 Partial Visibility, T+H Gallery, Boston, MA

The Sun Doesn’t Go Down, Transit Gallery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

2015 Known Unknown, Art Lounge, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE

2013 Everything You Are Looking For, Terrace Gallery, Artisphere, Arlington, VA

Present Perfect, Cohen Center for the Arts, Alfred University, Alfred, NY

You are (on) an island, Neon Workshops, Wakefield, UK

2012 Eternity, Plate Glass Gallery, Niagara Artists Center, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada 

Speaking in Tongues, Coleman Burke Gallery, Brunswick, ME

Keeping Time, Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN

2010 Eternity, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME

2009 A Grand Opening for Gravity, Random Room Gallery, Alfred, NY 

2008 Self-ish, #354 Workspace/Showspace, Rochester, NY

2007 Memory Machines, Portland Art Center, Portland, OR

2006 All My Clothes, Valentines, Portland, OR

Public Art Projects & Commissions

2023 A Very Long Now, Made in collaboration with H James Lucas, A permanent public sculpture for 

a traffic roundabout commissioned by Fort Worth Public Art, Fort Worth, TX (Forthcoming)

2022 You are (on) a mountain, A mobile and modular version of You are (on) a mountain was taken 

on a climb to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania

2022 This Present Moment at 11,000 Feet, An edition of This Present Moment was commissioned 

by the Long Now Foundation to be documented among the oldest living trees on 

Mt. Washington in Nevada

2022 OURs, A mobile neon sign commissioned by Planned Parenthood Foundation of America and 

displayed at various locations across the United States including the Supreme Court of the 

United States, Washington, DC

2021 The Time for Becoming, A long-term temporary public sculpture commissioned by the Nasher 

Sculpture Center for Nasher Public, Dallas, TX

You are (on) an island, A temporary version of You are (on) an island was commissioned by 

PhEST International Festival of Photography and Art and installed on a small island off the coast 

of Monopoli, Italy

2020 IT IS TIME, Made in collaboration with David Moinina Sengeh, A mobile neon sign 

commissioned by TED and Fine Acts and driven around Dallas, Texas, on 10.10.2020 as part of 

a global art action in support of Countdown – TED’s global initiative to champion and accelerate 

solutions to the climate crisis

The Future Comes from Behind Our Backs, A site-specific installation commissioned by Dallas 

Aurora for Area 3, a drive-through exhibition in the Dal Park Parking Garage in Dallas, TX

2019 You are (on) an island, The second edition of You are (on) an island was commissioned for 

permanent public display on the rooftop of an historic  building on New Holland Island in St. 

Petersburg, Russia

On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, A series of temporary billboards commissioned by the 

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth for MODERN BILLINGS III, Fort Worth, TX

Your Magic is Real, Made in collaboration with James Akers, An immersive installation 

commissioned by The Color Factory in Houston, TX

2018 All the Light You See, The second edition of All the Light You See was commissioned by the 

Amsterdam Light Festival for temporary public display on a bridge in Amsterdam, Netherlands

YOU ARE HER, A temporary public project consisting of road sign sculptures and public

performances commissioned by Fort Worth Contemporary Arts at Texas Christian University, 

Fort Worth, TX

You Are Magic, An interactive inflatable sculpture commissioned by the Arlington Art Truck and 

exhibited in several public places around Arlington, Virginia

2017 All the Light You See, The first edition of All the Light You See was commissioned by Mural Arts 

Philadelphia & MM Partners for the rooftop of a building in Philadelphia, PA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 True/False Film Festival 2023, Columbia, MO (Forthcoming)

Flowering, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, TX (Forthcoming)

Garden Party, SP/N Gallery, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX (Forthcoming)

2022 Georgetown GLOW, Washington, D.C.

Prelude to 2100, Deering Estate, Miami, FL

for the time being, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX

2021 Dallas Art Fair, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX

Glow: Discover the Art of Light, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA

Group Show, Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto, Portugal

PATRON Anniversary Art Show, Park House, Dallas, TX

Collect it For the Culture III, Houston, TX

2020 Going Through a Phrase, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX

Quiet Works, Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Temple University, 

Philadelphia, PA

Bright Golden Haze, Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City, OK

A Priori, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX

2019 Amsterdam Light Festival 2019: Disrupt, Amsterdam, Netherlands

DIFC Art Nights, Gate Village, Dubai International Finance Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

29Rooms: Expand Your Reality, Gilley’s Dallas, Dallas, TX

Group Show, Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto, Portugal

ARCOLisboa 2019, Lisbon, Portugal 

Camera Lucida, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, Austria

The Value of Sanctuary: Building a House Without Walls, The Cathedral Church of St. John the 

Divine, New York, NY

Independence, The MAC, Dallas, TX

2018 Amsterdam Light Festival 2018: The Medium is the Message, Amsterdam, Netherlands 

TEDWomen 2018: Showing Up, Palm Springs, CA

2018 CMCA Biennial, Center For Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME

Outta Space II, Rudolph Blume Contemporary, Houston, TX

Aurora 2018: Future Worlds, Dallas City Hall, Dallas, TX

Getgo, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas, TX

Language as Medium, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas

SculptureMonth Houston 2018: Peak Shift, SITE Gallery, Houston, TX

Project Light: Shared Vision, The Old Truman Brewery, London, UK

2018 Public Art Exhibition, Hilton Head Island, SC

FLÂNEUSE, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX

LAND AND SEA, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN 

ARCOLisboa 2018, Lisbon, Portugal

44 Artists From Texas (Part I), Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX 

Feminum, Landmark Arts, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

2017

Everlasting, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

The Model of the World, Museum of Art in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, China

How Will We Work?, Vienna Biennale, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria

Nature and Neon, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN

40 Under 40, Fort Works Art, Fort Worth, TX

EIGHT, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX (Curated by Art Room)

In Good Company, Eastfield College Galleries, Mesquite, TX

Plano Arts Fest, Plano, TX

2016 Briser la glace, MAGASIN, CENTRE NATIONAL D’ART CONTEMPORAin, GRENOBLE, France 

BLAUE STUNDE VII, The Old Firestation, Cologne, Germany

Longli International New Media Arts Festival, Longli Ancient Town, Guizhou Province, China

PRELUDE: A Preview of Aurora 2017, AT&T Performing Arts Center, Dallas, TX

Beijing Design Week, Beijing, China

Third Annual Regional Juried Exhibition, Artspace111, Fort Worth, TX

Known Unknown, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX

Expo 2016, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX

Writing Lightly, Work/Release, Norfolk, VA

True/False Film Festival 2016: Off the Grid, Columbia, MO

FLIGHT, MANIFEST Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2015 Cartagena Data Festival, Casa 1537, Cartagena, Colombia

PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL

Platforms Project @ Art-Athina, Faliro Pavilion, Athens, Greece

Art in the Metroplex 2015, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX 

Sounds Like, Herron College of Art, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN

Intelligent Objects: Empathetic and Smart Art, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT

TED2015: Truth and Dare, Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, Canada

SEE//STRAIGHT//THROUGH, Savery Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2014 WIRED: On the Intersection of Art & Technology, Chris White Gallery, Wilmington, DE

Negotiating Distance: A Neon Invitational, Atrium Gallery, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 

Collision21: More Human, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA

Made in Maine, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME

2013 SWIM, Malta Arts Festival 2013, Birgu, Malta

Artefact Festival 2013, STUK Arts Centre, Leuven, Belgium 

DUMBO Arts Festival 2013, Brooklyn, NY

Made in Mourning, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH

The Last Word, Drift Gallery, Portsmouth, NH

2012 Sculpture by the Sea: 16th Annual Bondi Exhibition, Sydney, Australia

Art Moves Festival 2012, Torun?, Poland

Cyberfest 2012: At Heaven’s Door, Creative Space Tkachi, St. Petersburg, Russia

Maine Women Pioneers III: Vanguard, University of New England Art Gallery, Portland, ME 

RSVP 2012, New Wilmington Art Association, Wilmington, DE

Collision17: Transformer, Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media, Jamaica Plain, MA 

2011 FANTasia, SIGGRAPH Asia 2011, Hong Kong, China

Icing, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME

Eye of the Beholder: Fine Art of the Found Object, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD 

The Plastic Box, Arts West Gallery, Elon University, NC

You are (on) an island, Sacred and Profane Art Festival, Peaks Island, ME

2010 Vimeo World, Vimeo Festival + Awards, New York, NY 

In No Time, Progressive Sharing, Philadelphia, PA

2009 Art in Craft Media, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY

The Midway: MFA Thesis Exhibition, Elk’s Lodge, Hornell, NY

2008 Some People: Alfred, NY, Fosdick Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY

Self Projections, Milepost 5, Portland, OR

2007 Wayfinding, #354 Workspace/Showspace, Rochester, NY 2007 

All Day Snacking, Rake Art Gallery, Portland, OR

Kitchen Sink: Step Into My Office, Portland, OR

2006 2006 CoCA Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA

Your America, Launch Pad Gallery, Portland, OR 

Collections

Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Houston Hobby Airport, City of Houston Civic Art Program, Houston, TX

Light Art Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Long Now Foundation, San Francisco, CA

New Holland Island, St. Petersburg, Russia

Carl M. Freeman Foundation, Selbyville, DE

HALL Arts Hotel, Dallas, TX

GreenStreet - Midway, Houston, TX

IBM, Coppell, TX

Capital One, New York, NY

Billingsley Company, Dallas, TX

MM Partners LLC, Philadelphia, PA

S&R Foundation, Washington, D.C.

Grants + Awards

2021 Research Fellowship, Long Now Foundation, San Francisco, CA

Moss/Chumley Award, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

2020 Fulbright Specialist Roster, U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural 

Affairs, Washington, D.C.

2019 Presidential Early Career Professorship Award, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

2018 Washington Award, S&R Foundation, Washington, D.C.

The Hopper Prize, hopperprize.org   

IAA Fellowship, Institute for the Advancement of the Arts, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

2017 Artist Grant, Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ

Finalist, World Changing Ideas Award, Fast Company 

Scholarly and Creative Activity (SCA) Award, Office of Research and Economic Development, 

University of North Texas, Denton, TX

2016 Juror’s Award, Expo 2016, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX 

Artist Microgrant, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX

Special Prize: Artist in Gallery, Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Italy

2015 Artist Microgrant, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX

Scholarly and Creative Activity (SCA) Award, Office of Research and Economic Development, 

University of North Texas, Denton, TX

First Prize, TFHMF Award, Tupajumi Foundation and HeavyMerryFinland, Rotterdam, The 

Netherlands and Turku, Finland

Theo Westengerber Estate Award, Beverly Hills, CA

Nomination, United States Artists Fellowship, United States Artists, Chicago, IL

2014 Direct Artist Grant, Harpo Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

Individual Artist Fellowship for Visual Arts, Maine Arts Commission, Augusta, ME

2013 Grand Prize, Dave Bown Projects 6th Semiannual Competition, Dave Bown Projects, Provo, UT

TED Fellowship, TED.com, New York, NY

2012 Fletcher Award for Faculty Development, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME

2011 Fletcher Award for Faculty Development, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME

2010 Vimeo Awards Shortlist, Captured Category, 2010 Vimeo Festival + Awards, New York, NY

2009 Margaret M. Mead Award, Burchfield-Penney Arts Center, Buffalo, NY

2007 Full Tuition MFA Fellowship, New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University, Alfred, NY

2003 Denmark International Study Scholarship, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Artist Residencies

2016 TiltBrush Artist in Residence, Google, San Francisco, CA

Artist in Residence, True/False Film Festival, Columbia, MO

2015 StudioWorks Residency, Tides Institute and Museum of Art, Eastport, ME

2013 Artist Residency, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY (Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts)

Bibliography

2022 This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World, With an essay contributed by the artist, 

Washington, D.C: Smithsonian American Art Museum and D Giles Limited

2021 WE LOVE NEON, San Angelo, TX: Ventex Technology, Inc.

2020 Bright Golden Haze, Oklahoma City, OK: Oklahoma Contemporary

Foundations of Digital Art and Design With Adobe Creative Cloud, 2nd Edition, Berkley, CA: 

New Riders

The Visual Experience, 4th Edition, Worcester, MA: Davis Publications

Alicia Eggert & Robert Hodge, Arlington, TX: The Gallery at UTA

2019 New Glass Now, Corning, NY: Corning Museum of Glass

2017 How Will We Work?, Vienna, Austria: University of Applied Arts

Dallas Women's Foundation STEM Trading Cards, Dallas, TX: Dallas Women's Foundation

Signs and Wonders, Venice, IT: Laguna Arte Prize 

EIGHT, Fort Worth, TX: Art Room

Everlasting, Beijing, China: Tang Contemporary Art

2016 Elements and Principles of 4D Art & Design, New York, NY: Oxford University Press

Writing Lightly, Norfolk, VA: Work/Release

2015 Swimming Against the Tide: Adventures with the TED Fellows, New York: TED 

Conferences, LLC

Inspirations Book No. 27: PRECIOUS, Paris, France: MAISON&OBJET

2014 Foundations of Digital Art and Design With Adobe Creative Cloud, Berkley, CA: New Riders 

What Are You Working On? / Vad Har Du På Gång?, Stockholm, Sweden: Valeveil Press

Negotiating Distance: A Neon Invitational, Muncie, IN: Ball State University

2013 You are (on) an island: West Yorkshire, England 2013, Wakefield, UK: Neon Workshops

ASPECT V21: A Good Place to Stop, “Alicia Eggert and Alexander Reben: Pulse Machine,” with 

commentary by Daniel Fuller 

Maine Women Pioneers III: Vanguard, Homage, Worldview, Dirigo, Portland, ME: University of 

New England

2012 ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness, Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books

Typoholic: Material Types in Design, Hong Kong, China: Victionary

Bright: Typography between Illustration & Art, Brooklyn, NY: Daab Designers & Books

O'Clock: Time Design, Design Time, Milan, Italy: Electa

2010 Fit to be Bound, Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art

2009 You have the words I cannot seem to find, Self-published artist book, Blurb

2008 Art in Craft Media, Buffalo, NY: Burchfield-Penney Arts Center

Selected Press & Media Appearances

2022 Forbes, “A Neon Sign Provocatively Installed On A Primeval Mountainside Shows The Urgency 

of Long-Term Thinking,” by Jonathon Keats

Washington Post, “At the Renwick Gallery, craft that captures our polarized times,” by 

Kriston Capps

Hyperallergic, “As Abortion Rights Come Under Threat, A Public Artwork Makes a Statement,” 

by Valentina Di Liscia

ARTnews, “Legendary Artists Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Nan Goldin Respond to Roe Draft 

Opinion: ‘A Surprise To No One’,” by Angelica Villa 

Artroverted, “Illuminating the Art of Time with Artist Alicia Eggert,” Podcast interview 

published on April 22, 2022

Cultured Magazine, “The Artist Guide to Supporting Women’s Rights,” by Molly Wilcox

ELEPHANT Magazine, “Painting by Letters: The Power of Words within Art,” by Chloë Ashby 

ARTNews, “Smithsonian American Art Museum Acquires More than 200 Artworks for its Craft 

Collection,” by The Editors of ARTNews

Smithsonian American Art Museum Blog, “Contemporary Craft in Focus: This Present Moment” 

The Art Newspaper, “Neon art installation begins tour of US states where abortion rights are 

threatened,” by Annabel Keenan

HYPEBAE, “Planned Parenthood Collaborates with Artist Alicia Eggert to Illuminate the 

Importance of Abortion Access,” by Danielle Combs

PBS NewsHour, “How Houston has transformed its airports into hubs for art,” by Karla Murthy

Paper Magazine, “6 Must-See Art Exhibits to Catch in Dallas This Winter,” by Megan Ziots

2021 Dallas Morning News, “Denton artist Alicia Eggert bends the light — and our thinking — at 

Liliana Bloch Gallery solo show,” by Danielle Avram

Glasstire, “Logocentric: Alicia Eggert at Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas,” by Michael 

Frank Blair

Blog of the Long Now, “How Long is Now?” by Ahmed Kabil

Miami Dade College News, “Welcome To The Future -- Miami Artists Imagine the City 

2050 with a New Immersive Theatrical Experience at Deering Estate” by Cathy Guerra

Dallas Morning News, “Dallas Art Fair’s success marks a step toward normalcy,” by 

Lauren Smart

Artsy, “The Dallas Art Fair Makes Its Long-Awaited In-Person Return,” by Christopher 

Mosley and Lyndsay Knecht

Attitude Magazine, “Museu Municipal Amadeo De Souza-Cardoso.”

The Irish Times, “Can Dublin Fringe Festival lead the reopening of the city?,” by Chris 

McCormack

Glasstire, “Alicia Eggert Wins 2021 Dallas Meadows Museum’s Moss/Chumley Award,” 

by Christopher Blay

Glasstire, “Top Five: April 22, 2021,” by Glasstire

Como, “Immersion In the Park,” by Tiffany Schmidt

The Long Now Foundation, “Smithsonian acquires artwork based on Stewart Brand 

epigram,” by Ahmed Kabil

Fort Worth Magazine, “This UNT Professor's Artwork Just Got Acquired by the 

Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery,” by Samantha Calimbahin

Denton Record-Chronicle, “Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery adds light sculpture by UNT 

art professor to permanent collection,” by Lucinda Breeding

2020 D Magazine, “Check Out Aurora’s Drive-Thru Art Exhibit, Area 3,” by Natalie Gempel

Glasstire, “Keep Moving! The Drive-Through Experience of “Aurora: Area 3”,” by 

Colette Copeland  

Glasstire, “A Posteriori” at Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas,” by William Sarradet

Connect Savannah, “In the now with Alicia Eggert at PULSE Art + Technology Festival,” by 

Rachael Flora  

Oklahoma Gazette, “Stay Golden,” by Jeremy Martin

Dallas Morning News, “How the Dallas arts community is coping with the COVID-19 pandemic,” 

by Danielle Avram 

Glasstire, “Checking in with: Alicia Eggert,” by Christopher Blay

2019 Arts & Culture TX, “Texas Studio: Alicia Eggert,” by Casey Gregory

The Atlantic, “How Artists Build the Spirit of a Town,” by Deborah Fallows

D Magazine, “Anything is Possible for Interdisciplinary Artist Alicia Eggert,” by Elaine Raffel

State of the Art Podcast, “The Art of Time & Wonder: Alicia Eggert, Interdisciplinary Artist,” 

interview with Gabriel Barcia-Colombo

Fort Worth Weekly, “Top Billing,” by Edward Brown

Paper City Magazine, “Dallas’ New Showcase Arts Hotel Opens With Stunning Works and 

Plenty of Surprise Perks,” by Megan Ziots

Arab News, “Giant flamingos: Art Nights event showcases wild creativity of regional artists”

Dallas Morning News, “At the MAC's new Cedars gallery, a group of Texas artists declare their 

‘Independence’,” by Jeremy Hallock

Glasstire, “The MAC Opens Its New Space in Dallas With Two Texas-Based Exhibitions”

Art New England, “CMCA Biennial 2018,” by Carl Little

Down East Magazine, “In the Moment: At the CMCA Biennial, a snapshot of Maine’s buzzing 

art scene”

2018 Colossal, “Amsterdam’s 2018 Light Festival Illuminates City Streets with 29 Art Installations,” by

Kate Sierzputowski

designboom, “Amsterdam Light Festival 2018 illuminates the city's streets and canals,” by 

Lynne Myers

Patron Magazine, “The Space Between the Words and Our Eyes: Exploring the Mutability of 

Language and Form with Alicia Eggert,” by Brandon Kennedy

Vulture, “Aurora is the One-Night-Only Public Art Extravaganza in Downtown Dallas,” by 

Rain Embuscado

Houston Chronicle, “Sculpture Month Houston an immersive experience,” by Molly Glentzer

StreetsDept.com, “Participatory Public Art Installation Reminds Philadelphians That They 

Are Magic”

Dallas Morning News, “Dallas’ First DIY Sculpture Park,” by Lauren Smart

The Arkansas Traveler, “New Exhibit Questions Duality in Words,” by Holly Mitchell

Local DVM, “Arlington Art Truck debuts at county fair,” by Rebecca Burnett

East City Art, “You Are Magic: Arlington Art Truck’s Second Installation to Launch”

Culture Trip, “8 Artists From Dallas You Need to Know,” by Alex Temblador

Impakter Magazine, “Language, Time and Image in Alicia Eggert’s Art,” by Anna Durbanova

2017 New Glass Review, Issue 38, “Juror’s Choice Selections”

GLASS Quarterly, Issue 147, “Persistence of Vision,” by Malcolm Morano

BLOUIN ARTINFO, “‘Everlasting' at Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing”

North Texas Daily, “Professor shares her path that sculpted her into the artist she is” by 

Sadia Saeed

Art & Seek, “Artist Spotlight: Alicia Eggert, Deconstructing Words to Sculpt Art,” by 

Hady Mawajdeh 

D Magazine, “The Dallas Art Fair is This Week, But It’s Hardly the Only Thing Happening,” by 

Darryl Ratcliff

Dallas Observer, “5 Art Events for Your Weekend: March 16-19,” by Rachel Williams

MOVE Magazine, “True/False art ‘sparks an interaction’,” by Gracie Sands

2016 Artscope, “Eggert at T+H Gallery,” by Suzanne Volmer

The Boston Globe, “The Week Ahead: ‘Alicia Eggert: Partial Visibility’,” by Cate McQuaid

Bangor Daily News, “‘Forever’ installation coming to an end on Lubec island,” by Bill Trotter

The Quoddy Tides, “‘Forever’ installation in place on island,” by Lora Whelan

Experience Maritime Maine, “FOREVER: Temporary public sculpture on Dudley Island, ME”

Medium, “The Balancing Act of Work and Kids: 7 Life Lessons from the Parent Circuit,” by 

Catherine Young

The Virginian-Pilot, “12-foot neon liquor sign part of new exhibit for Work/Release’s one-year 

anniversary,” by Will Houp

Mace & Crown, “Writing Lightly: Language and Light,” by Alyssa Branch

2015 Glasstire, “Nasher Announces Winners of Fall 2015 Microgrants”

Hyperallergic, “At PULSE Miami Beach, Plants, Plants Everywhere,” by Claire Voon

PAPER, “Mega Guide to Art Basel Miami Beach 2015: Part 4,” by Gary Pini

Tech Insider, “This Bulgarian human rights activist gave one of the most chilling TED Talks of all 

time,” by Melia Robinson

Medium, “5 Unexpected Cross-Disciplinary Collaborations,” by Karen Eng

BBC Future, “How robots mess with our minds,” by Alexander Reben

New Haven Register, “‘Intelligent Objects’ Ahead,” by Joe Amarante

Medium, “This Sculpture is Illuminating the State of World Peace?—?and the Future Isn’t (Yet) 

Bright,” by Karen Eng

2014 Fast Company, “This Artist Is Teaching Tech Execs How To Make Devices More Lovable,” by 

Josh Dzieza

The Huffington Post, “This Art Installation Says What Everyone Else Is Already Thinking About 

Technology,” by Arin Greenwood 

Tom Tom Magazine, Issue 17: The Body Issue, ”Pulse Machine," by Mindy Abovitz

Lionheart Magazine, Issue 5: Home, ”We Are Islanders: Interview with Alicia Eggert," by 

Jessica Furseth

Here For the Color, “Artist Alicia Eggert on the Value of Wonder, Artistry and Purpose,” 

by Anu Rana

2013 The Washington Post,“Art Review: ‘Everything You Are Looking For’,” by Michael O’Sullivan

ArtSee DC, “Sculpting the Invisible: A Review of Alicia Eggert’s Solo Exhibition,“Everything You 

are Looking For”,” by Roxanne Goldberg

The Washington Post, “Artist Alicia Eggert says “You are on an island”,” by Michael O’Sullivan

I-REF Magazine for Contemporary Culture, “Mike Fleming/Alicia Eggert - You are (on) an island”

Art Discover, “Alicia Eggert’s playful conceptual art”

Exhibition-ism, “Alicia Eggert’s conceptual commonplace installation work”

Times of Malta, “The vastness of the sea, the identity of an island,” by Charlene Vella

Telecápita, “Alicia Eggert: la escritura, un espacio en presente,” by Roberto Cruz Arzabal

Beautiful Decay, “Alicia Eggert’s Temporal Conceptual Installations,” by Jené Gutierrez

TED Blog, “How soon is now? Fellows Friday with Alicia Eggert,” by Karen Eng

designboom, “you are ‘on’ an island: a neon light project by alicia eggert + mike fleming”

BLOUIN ARTINFO, “Why ‘Sculpture By the Sea’ at David Jones is a Revelation,” by 

Nicholas Forrest

2012 Portland Press Herald, “Postcards from the cutting edge,” by Bob Keyes

VICE: The Creators Project, “Tennessee’s Baby Drum ‘N’ Pulse Machine,” by Nicholas Smaller

VVORK, “Pulse Machine, 2012 by Alicia Eggert”

The Tennessean, “COOP Gallery Welcomes Alicia Eggert’s Kinetic Sculptures,” by

Michelle Jones

2011 designboom, “alicia eggert + mike fleming: eternity”

Maine Home and Design, “The Art Issue”

The Boston Globe,“Biennial hits — and misses,” by Sebastian Smee

2010 The Art Blog, “Eternity and Memorials... ,” by Roberta Fallon

2009 The Buffalo Spree, “The Art of Craft,” by Bruce Adams

2007 The Oregonian,“Everyone and the Kitchen Sink,” by D.K. Row

Selected Lectures, Workshops, Panels & Papers

2023 Symposium Presenter: “Crafting a Better World: The Renwick 50th Anniversary Symposium,” 

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. (Forthcoming)

2022 Long Now Seminar: “This Moment Used To Be the Future, Long Now Foundation, San 

Francisco, CA

Workshop: “Digital Methods for Traditional Makers,” Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass 

Village, CO

Visiting Artist Lecture & Workshop, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 

Visiting Artist Lecture & Guest Critic, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX

Visiting Artist Lecture & Workshop, Ball State University, Muncie, IN

DMA Trade Talk: “Working as an Artist," Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

Panel Discussion: “for the time being," Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX

2021 Exhibition Juror: “The Fall of Civilization,” at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, 

Lubbock, TX

Workshop: “From Flat to Form,” Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO 

Visiting Artist Lecture: “Art 101: Artists in Their Own Words,” California State University Long 

Beach, Long Beach, CA

Juror, Lewisville Public Art Committee, Lewisville, TX

Great Conversations Leader: “Why Public Art Matters, Now More Then Ever,” University of 

North Texas, Denton, TX

Visiting Artist Lecture, CORE coLAB, Portland State University, Portland, OR

Artist Talk, Collect it For the Culture III, Houston, TX

2020 TEDx Talk: “Making Time Tangible,” TEDxSMU, Dallas, TX

Panel Discussion, PULSE Art + Technology Festival, Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA 

Guest Critic, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University, New York, NY

Visiting Artist Lecture, Intermediate Sculpture, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

2019 TED Talk, “Imaginative sculptures that explore how we perceive reality,” TEDSummit 2019, 

Edinburgh, Scotland

Gallery Talk, The Gallery at UTA, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX

Visiting Artist Lecture, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

2018 Keynote Speaker: “All the Light You See is from the Past,” Texas Sculpture Association 

Symposium, Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX

Panel Discussion, Aurora: Future Worlds, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX

Workshop: “Welding & the Digital World: CNC Plasma Cutter,” Anderson Ranch Arts Center, 

Snowmass Village, CO

Washington Award Artist Talk, S&R Foundation, Washington D.C.

Artist Workshop, Hilton Head Island High School, Hilton Head, SC

Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

Visiting Artist Lecture, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

2017 Art Talk: “Partial Visibility,” The MAC, Dallas, TX

Artist Talk: “All That is Possible is Real,” Reynolds Journalism Institute, Missouri University, 

Columbia, MO

2016 Visiting Artist Lecture and Workshop, Spruce High School, Dallas, TX

Artist Talk: “Partial Visibility,” T+H Gallery, Boston, MA

Artist Talk: “On A Clear Day You Can See Forever,” Tides Institute & Museum of Art, 

Eastport, ME

Artist Talk, Work/Release, Norfolk, VA

Visiting Artist Lecture, Texas Womans University, Denton, TX

Artist Talk: “The Sun Doesn’t Go Down,” Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Artist Talk, Reynolds Journalism Institute, Missouri University, Columbia, MO

Artist Talk, Columbia College, Columbia, MO

Artist in Residence Workshop: “How to find creative freedom within constraints, How to make 

something from nothing, and How doing it together is better than doing it yourself,” Orr Street 

Studios, True/False Film Festival, Columbia, MO

`2015 Artist Talk, Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York 

University, New York, NY

Artist Talk, Pierre S. DuPont Gallery, Tower Hill School, Wilmington, DE

2014 Keynote Speaker, Higher Education Maker Summit, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ

Visiting Artist, Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Program, Woodstock, NY

Visiting Artist Lecture and Graduate Studio Visits, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 

Chicago, IL 

Visiting Artist Lecture, Oakland University, Rochester, MI

Visiting Artist Lecture and Graduate Studio Visits, University of Indiana, Bloomington, IA 

Visiting Artist Lecture and Graduate Studio Visits, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

Visiting Artist Lecture and Graduate Studio Visits, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

Visiting Artist Lecture and Graduate Critique, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

Visiting Artist Lecture and Guest Critic, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA 

Visiting Artist Lecture and Interactive Inflatables Workshop, I-Art Foundations, Alfred University,

Alfred, NY

2013 TEDx Talk,“Making art is like speaking in tongues,” TEDxDirigo: Generate, Brunswick, ME 

Keynote Speaker, Phoenix Design Week: Method + Madness, Phoenix, AZ

Gallery Talk, Cohen Center for the Arts, Alfred University, Alfred, NY

Visiting Artist Lecture, I-Art Senior Seminar, Alfred University, Alfred, NY

Artist Talk: “You are (on) an island,” The Hepworth Wakefield Gallery, Wakefield, UK

Artist Talk: “You are (on) an island,” Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK

TED Fellows Talk: “How soon is now?”, TED2013, Long Beach, CA

2012 Artist Talk, 16th Annual Sculpture By the Sea at Bondi, Sydney, Australia

Gallery Talk, Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media, Jamaica Plain, MA

Paper: “What it Means to Wonder: The Use of Text in Time-Based and Interactive Sculpture,” 

College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA

Panel Discussion: “Chewing on Words: Reconsidering Text in its Materiality,” College Art 

Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA

2011 Artist Talk, SIGGRAPH Asia, Hong Kong, China

Visiting Artist Lecture and Guest Critic, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

Gallery Talk, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

Artist Talk: “Meet the Artists: Family Gallery Program,” Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

Pecha Kucha Presentation, ITP Camp, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU

2010 Faculty Seminar: “To Live in the Space of a Moment, and To Understand Eternity,” Bowdoin 

College, Brunswick, ME

Visiting Artist Lecture, Freshman Foundations, Alfred University, Alfred, NY

Service & Other Initiatives

2015 - Present, Fine Acts Collective Member, fineacts.co

Fine Acts is a nonprofit for socially engaged creative solutions, that operates across issues and 

borders. Fine Acts commissions art that raises awareness, triggers action, and fosters greater support for human rights campaigns. As a member of their collective, I have participated in 

several projects and exhibitions with Fine Acts, including a global art action involving ten public artworks, ?ll launching on the same day in cities around the world, in support of Countdown – 

TED’s global initiative to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate crisis.

2019 - 2021, Public Art Committee Member, Denton, TX

The City of Denton’s Public Art Committee makes recommendations to the City Council on the commissioning, placing, and the installing of public art, implementation of funding, and 

management and ongoing maintenance of public art.

2014 - 2016, Board of Directors Member, Emergent Ground, Oakland, CA

Emergent Ground is a non profit organization and social justice initiative that integrates art and design to bring about positive transformation in the built environment through youth-centered 

education and community-based projects.

2012 - 2014, Co-organizer, CAMP

Inspired by un-conferences, CAMP is an annual gathering where people share ideas, art practices and food. It is an experiment in analog social networking, self organization, and making-thinking. The first version of CAMP in 2012 was a 3-day symposium packed with lectures, workshops and experiments on Squash Blossom Farm in upstate New York. In 2013, 

CAMP was “everything you are looking for,” an experiment in collective practice and performance at Mohawk Arts Collective in Maine. In 2014, CAMP was a series of workshops 

and discussions around the theme of “Pornification" at Evergreen Trail in Springwater, NY.

2006 - 2007, Co-organizer and Curator, Kitchen Sink PDX, Portland, OR

Organized and curated three interdisciplinary art events at various locations in Portland, 

Oregon. Events featured up to 130 artists and were attended by as many as 2,000 people.