Alice Aycock

Alice Aycock (b. 1946, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an American sculptor and installation artist whose influential practice spans more than five decades. Emerging in the 1970s, Aycock became known for ambitious architectural and site-specific works that explore relationships between structure, movement, landscape, and the viewer. Her sculptures and drawings frequently draw from architecture, engineering, machinery, science, and imagined systems, ranging from early earthworks to dynamic large-scale public installations. Aycock has participated in three editions of the Venice Biennale (1978, 1980, 1982), documenta VI and VIII, and two editions of the Whitney Biennial (1979 and 1981).

Aycock has lived in New York City since 1968. She is represented by Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin since 2010, and has had solo exhibitions at Marlborough Gallery in 2017, 2020 and 2023. A retrospective was exhibited at the Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany in 2019. In 2013, a retrospective of her drawings and small sculptures was held at the Parrish Art Museum and the Grey Art Gallery in New York. A retrospective was held at Storm King (1990) and a traveling retrospective organized by the Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (1983). A series of seven sculptures were installed in NYC, entitled Park Avenue Paper Chase (2014), in collaboration with Galerie Thomas Schulte. Aycock was part of the exhibition, “Groundswell: Women of Land Art,” at Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2023). She is currently constructing a building as part of Art Omi Pavilions, a new 190-acre art center in Chatham, NY, led by Francis Greenburger. Her Pavilion will debut in June 2027, with a new permanent artwork as well as historical installations. 
 
Her works can be found in numerous public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, Louis Vuitton Foundation, LA County Museum, the National Gallery of Art, Sheldon Museum of Art, Storm King Art Center, Orange County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, St. Bride’s Farm Sculpture Collection, and the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College.

Her public works include East River Park Pavilion, NYC (1995/2014); San Francisco Public Library (1996); Fallon Building, Baltimore (2004); Nashville, TN (2008); Washington Dulles Int’l Airport (2012); MGM National Harbor, MD (2016); Pier 27, Toronto (2017, 2021); Capital One Headquarters, McLean, VA (2018); NYU Abu Dhabi (2019); Port Everglades Cruise Terminal, FL (2019); Jingu Gaien, Tokyo (2020); Des Moines Int’l Airport (2022); McNay Art Museum (2023); and IQHQ RaDD, San Diego (2024). Six sculptures were installed in an outdoor solo exhibition at the Royal Djurgården in Stockholm (2020), from which they acquired a work. The City of Borås, Sweden, also acquired a large-scale sculpture. Most recently, an exterior sculpture for Muskegon Museum of Art (2025) was unveiled as well as an interior artwork for Dior Osaka, Japan, designed by Peter Marino (2026).