Alicia Grullón is interested in the affect place has on identity, the politics of living and the body as word. Her projects consist of performances and photography in public spaces where everything accidental and local become setting and character. Alicia has exhibited at Mount Holyoke College’s Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, Raritan Community College, Masur Museum of Art, the Peekskill Arts Festival, Samuel Dorsky Museum at the State University of New York at New Paltz, Hunter College Gallery, The Point Community Center, Lower East Side Festival of the Arts and The University of Rhode Island. Awards include: Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Art and Law Residency 2010, Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art 2007-08, Chashama Visual Arts Award, Research Associateship at Mount Holyoke College, and Arts Council Korea International Artist Residency at Stone and Water Gallery in Anyang, South Korea 2009. She’s participated in 2008’s Art in Odd Places Pedestrian and Jamaica Flux 2010 at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. Alicia’s work has appeared in The World Journal of Post-Factory Photography, Dirty Pop Magazine, and ICP at the Point. Alicia has a BFA from New York University and an MFA from the State University of New York at New Paltz. Alicia has lived in the Netherlands, England, and Korea. She now lives and works in New York City