Alicia Escott

Alicia Escott is an interdisciplinary artist based in San Francisco. She practices in solidarity with thinkers across fields undoing the construct of “nature” as a thing separated from us and our world. Escott is interested in how we each are negotiating our immediate day-to-day realities and responsibilities amid an awareness of the overarching specter of climate change, mass-extinction and the subsequent unspoken individual and collective experience of loss, heartbreak and longing— and the related social and political unrest it produces. She/they approach these issues with an interstitial practice that encompasses writing, drawing, painting, photography, video, sculpture, social-practice and activism. 

Escott has been an Artist in Residence at at Recology, The Growlery, Djerassi, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Irving Street Projects as well as the JB Blunk Artist Residency. Her work has been shown in over 90 art institutions, galleries and alternative spaces— including exhibitions at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Berkeley Arts Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the San Francisco Maritime Museum, The Berkley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and The Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbra. She/they holds an MFA from California College of the Arts, where she/they received the Richard K. Price Scholarship and a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. Escott is a founding member of 100 Days Action and half of the Social Practice Project The Bureau of Linguistical Reality. Her/their work has been featured in the Economist, The new Yorker, KQED, MOMUS, The San Francisco Chronicle and many others.