Your Magic is Real

and Sub(liminal)

About Alicia Eggert

Alicia Eggert (American, b. 1981) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice gives material form to language and time across a variety of mediums. She derives inspiration from physics and philosophy, and her 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. 

Eggert has exhibited at notable institutions including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, CAFA Art Museum in Beijing, Triennale Design Museum in Milan, Everson Museum of Art, and Telfair Museums. Recent solo exhibitions include Galeria Fernando Santos (Porto, Portugal); University of Texas, San Antonio; Art Museum of Southeast Texas (Beaumont, TX); and UrbanGlass (Brooklyn, NY). Her work is held in collections including the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery, Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at University of California, Davis, New Holland Island (St. Petersburg, Russia), Light Art Collection, and significant private collections. The artist has received a TED Fellowship, Long Now Foundation Fellowship, Hopper Prize, SR Foundation Washington Award, Harpo Foundation Direct Artist Grant, Nasher Sculpture Center Artist Microgrant, and Maine Arts Commission Artist Fellowship. Eggert is the Associate Professor of Studio Art at the University of North Texas.