Alicia Lisa Brown is a contemporary Jamaican painter and educator. She is a graduate of

Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, (formerly Jamaica School of Art and Crafts), is an art school in Kingston, Jamaica. In 1940, Edna Manley pioneered evening art classes at the Institute of Jamaica's Junior Centre but it wa ...

and the

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. She currently resides in Florida.

Early life and education

Alicia Lisa Brown (recognized as "Alicia Brown") is a Jamaican artist born in 1982. In 2009, she earned her BFA in Painting and a diploma in Art Education from Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts. She worked as a secondary teacher for a few years before moving to New York in 2012 and enrolling in the New York Academy of Art's graduate program. She received her MFA in painting in 2014. She worked as a college professor in

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for half a decade before returning to the U.S. and establishing herself as a full time-artist in

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Style and themes

Alicia Lisa Brown has a is figurative, realist art style. Her work features black men and women. These subjects have been historically ignored or misrepresented in the

portraiture A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better re ...

genre. She often presents figures in relation to a nature environment and/or adorned in nature. Her work tackles themes of belonging, adaptation, migration and

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Artistic career

Residencies

Source: * 2017- Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ Residency * 2013- LIA Artists’ Residency, Leipzig, Germany

Awards

Source: * 2017- Dawn Scott Memorial Award, 2017 Jamaica Biennial * 2004- Two Bronze medals award, Jamaica Cultural Development art competition * 2003- Bronze medal and merit certificate award, Jamaica Cultural Development art competition

Grants

Source: * 2021- Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Artist Grant * 2019- Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Artist Grant * 2014- LCU Fund for Women Education Grant * 2013-

Joan Mitchell Foundation Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 – October 30, 1992) was an American artist who worked primarily in painting and printmaking, and also used pastel and made other works on paper. She was an active participant in the New York School of artis ...

Grant

Solo exhibitions

* 2025- Alicia Brown: Caribbean Transformers. Becoming and Being in the New World, Richard M. Ross Art Museum, Delaware, Ohio * 2023- Alicia Brown: Coming to 'Merica: Invasive Species, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, New York * 2022- 'What About the Men, Alicia Brown', UUU ART COLLECTIVE, Rochester New York, USA * 2020- ‘What if the man in the new world needs mimicry as design, both as defense and lure?’ Virago Gallery, Seattle Washington, USA * 2016- ‘Copy and Placed’, Studio 174, Kingston, Jamaica

References

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