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Alice Hargrave

Alice Hargrave (born 1962) is a Chicago-based photographer and installation artist. Her most recent work focuses on environmental issues related to climate change, habitate loss, and the extinction of species across the United States.

She has taught photography at The School of The Art Insitute of Chicago, University of Illinois, Chicago and Columbia College Chicago.

Education

MFA University of Illinois, Chicago, IL , 1994

BA Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 1984

Awards and Recognition

2021 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE — TROUT LAKE STATION OF LIMNOLOGY, Boulder Junction, WI

2020 ILLINOIS ARTS COUNCIL FELLOWSHIP In Visual-Based Arts (Photography) 2020 Award

FELLOWSHIP — RAGDALE ARTIST RESIDENCY, Lake Forest IL.

ARTIST RESIDENCY — STUDIOS AT KEY WEST, Key West, Florida

ARTIST RESIDENCY — FLATHEAD LAKE BIOLOGICAL STATION, Missoula, Montana

2019 ILLINOIS ARTS COUNCIL FELLOWSHIP, Individual Artist Finalist Award 2019 Award

THE PRINT CENTER, Semi-finalist 2019 International Competition, Philadelphia, PA

2018 KLOMPCHING GALLERY, FRESH Finalist, Brooklyn, NY

2015 CRITICAL MASS FINALIST

2000 ILLINOIS ARTS COUNCIL, Individual Artist Grant

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022 FLUORESCENCE, The Schingoethe Center, Aurora University, Aurora, IL

2021 THE CANARY IN THE LAKE, HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS AFFECTING FRESHWATER GLOBAL LAKES, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL

THE SUFFRAGETTE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS, Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL

2019 ALICE HARGRAVE AT FREEHAND, Freehand Gallery, Chicago, IL

2018 LAST CALLS / ON ANY GIVEN NIGHT … Sonnenschein and Albright Galleries, Lake Forest College, IL

PARADISE WAVERING, Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, IN

2017 PARADISE WAVERING, Gallery 555, Boston, MA

2016 PARADISE WAVERING, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

2014 UNTITLED (EXPEDITIONS), Audible Gallery, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, IL

2012 ALICE HARGRAVE (RESIDUALS), Woodlands Academy, Lake Forest, IL

2010 UNTITLED(FAMILY), Audible Gallery, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago IL

2000 ALICE HARGRAVE PHOTOGRAPHS, Isis Gallery, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN

1998 FECUNDITY, The Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

1994 MATTER, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago. IL

1991 THE ARCHITECTURE OF MEMORY, The Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021 OPEN AIR AT FLATHEAD LAKE BIOLOGICAL STATION, Bigfork, MT

FLOURISH: Come Hell or High Water, 709 Gallery, Missoula, MT

2020 NOT JUST ANOTHER PRETTY FACE, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

2019 LIANZHOU FOTO FESTIVAL, Lianzhou, China

2018 NEW CATS IN ART PHOTOGRAPHY / HUMBLE CATS; Photoville, Dumbo, Brooklyn NY

IN THE BEGINNING OF SPECIES / THINNING OF SPECIES, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins CO

SILVER EYE CENTER for PHOTOGRAPHY, Auction Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA

2015 FRACTION OF A SECOND, 516 Arts Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico

SKY, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA

RADICAL COLOR, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR

2014 STELLA, THE NATURE OF A COLLECTIVE, Ukrainian Museum of Art, Chicago, IL

2000 FOREIGN BODIES, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Collections

The Museum of Contemporary Photography

The Art Institute of Chicago Artist Book Collection

The Ruttenberg Collection

Rush Presbyterian Hospital

External Links

References

https://www.mocp.org/collection/mpp/hargrave_alice.php

Links to Reviews and essays: Link to info about current exhibition: http://www.videtteonline.com/features/university-galleries-hosts-artist-hargraves-unique-look-at-declining-biodiversity-and-habitat-for-birds/article_c7f34d64-9bb4-11eb-963a-9fee495d5955.html

University of Chicago ESSAY SPACE / SIGHT / SELF · Curated by Laura Letinsky The Smart Museum of Art · Exhibition Catalogue Essay · Anna Pomykala https://static1.squarespace.com/static/547101e9e4b00008d7970a62/t/54971f39e4b08142c2260e6e/1419190073472/essay.pdf

Review of Paradise Wavering exhibition- Hyde Park https://www.classicchicagomagazine.com/alice-hargrave-paradise-wavering/

Notes___ https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons

Can't use this- from Artist's website Bio Alice Hargrave, a photo based artist in Chicago, incorporates sound, video, and photographic imagery within layered site specific installations. Recently, The Canary in the Lake, revisualizes climate related data from lakes on all seven continents. Working with global limnologists from GLEON, Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network, Hargrave made lake “portraits” that reveal the invisible forces that are changing freshwater lakes due to climate shifts. The Canary in the Lake presents more than 40 new photographic, video, and audio works that center on two new series relating to birds and lakes that continue Hargrave’s research on climate change-related loss of biodiversity and habitat. The exhibition title alludes to the “canary in the coal mine,” because freshwater lakes function as sentinels of climate change.

Hargrave collaborated with The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, to create her project Last Calls, portraits of threatened birds using sound wave patterns of their vocalizations in the wild. Last Calls is widely exhibited, most recently in Lianzhou, China, winning a 2020 Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Grant, as well as the finalist award in 2019. Putting the work to work — the bird vocalizations are printed on glass to prevent bird collision. The birds themselves call out to other birds DO NOT FLY HERE ! The bird call patterns are also translated into “Haute Couture” garments by Dovima Paris where profits directly benefit the birds. Paradise Wavering Hargrave’s monograph (Daylight 2016) and extensive solo exhibition traveled to multiple venues across the United States.

Hargrave studied art and architectural history in Italy, and worked as a photographic artist in France and Spain. She is fluent in French, and received a University Fellowship to obtain her MFA from The University of Illinois, Chicago, where she explored the cusp between abstraction, and representation, and the relationship between painting, photography, and the sublime.

Hargrave’s work has been seen in solo exhibitions at University Galleries, The Hyde Park Art Center, The Chicago Cultural Center among others, and group exhibitions at The Museum of Contemporary Photography, The Smart Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, The Tweed Museum of Art MN, Art Metz (France), The Griffin Museum of Photography MA, 516 Arts Gallery Albuquerque NM, Newspace Center for Photography Portland OR, Klein Gallery, and Carol Ehlers Gallery in Chicago who represented her. She is collected nationally, internationally, and is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Contemporary Photography, The Art Institute of Chicago Artist Book Collection, The Ruttenberg Collection, Nuveen Corporation, Outer Circle Corporation, Rush Presbyterian Hospital among other public and private collections. Hargrave's work has received many awards, fellowships, and has been published and reviewed in several journals such as Huffington Post, BBC News, and ARTNET, and her research has led her to Artist Residencies in The Florida Keys, Montana, Northern Wisconsin, and a Ragdale Fellowship award, Lake Forest, IL.

Hargrave has taught photography since 1994; at The School of The Art Institute Chicago, and University of Illinois, Chicago, before her tenure track full time professorship at Columbia College Chicago. She has currently decided to teach part time, while pursuing commissions and conservation work.