ALEXIS MCGRIGG
American, b. Jackson, MS, 1989
Lives and works in Jackson, MS
EDUCATION
Texas Tech University, MFA, 2017
Mississippi State University, BFA, 2012
EXHIBITIONS
2024 New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024, National Museum of Women in the Arts,
Washington, DC (upcoming)
Art Brussels, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels Belgium (upcoming)
Women in Abstraction, Almine Rech Gallery, New York, NY (upcoming)
The Contemporary South, Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
2023 Filling in the Pieces in Black, Maruani Mercier & Saatchi Gallery,
Dual exhibition in Brussels, Belgium and London, UK
Who Lit the Fire?, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
2023 Southern Prize and State Fellowships Exhibition, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum, Biloxi, MS
Color Coded, BODE Projects, Berlin, Germany
States of Blackness, Black Cultural Archives, London, UK
In The Beloved, Solo Exhibition, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2022 WOMEN - Art in Time of Chaos, de Pury Auction, Virtual
RBG: Our Primary Colors, Richard Beavers Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Art Brussels, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
The Labour of Being, Solo exhibition, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
On Jupiter, Selections from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Roanoke College, Roanoke, VA
2021 UNTITLED Art Fair, Richard Beavers Gallery, Miami, FL
FIAC Art Fair, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
2021 Mississippi Invitational, MS Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
The Way Home: Photographs by Chad Edwards, Micah Green, Chuck Hemard, Jessica Ingram, &
Alexis McGrigg, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS
Salon de Peinture, Almine Rech Gallery, New York, NY
The Ether - Journey In Between, Solo Exhibition, Richard Beavers Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Truth About Me, Art Lead Her, Urban Zen, New York, NY
LIGHT, CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Weekend Loop, Third Floor Window Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2020 Wealth Surrounds Me: God, Gold, & Kinfolk, Richard Beavers Gallery, New York, NY
SAY IT LOUD (I’m Black and I’m Proud), Christie’s Auction House, New York, NY
In the Hallway, Alternate ROOTS, Virtual Salon, Atlanta, GA
Seeing 20/20, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS
2019 Blackness: Violet Deep, Solo Exhibition, AND Gallery, Jackson, MS
2018 Alternate ROOTS, AND Gallery, Jackson, MS
24 fps // Memories Decoded, Charles Adams Studio Projects, Studio D, Lubbock, TX
2017 Blackness: Violet Deep, Solo Exhibition, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts
(LHUCA Warehouse), Lubbock, TX
Abandoned Margins: Policing the Black Female Body, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA), Grand Rapids, MI
Expectations: A Feminist Video Screening, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL
2016 West, Far West. Lubbock/Marfa, Landmark Arts, Marfa, TX
Iconic: Black Panther Oakland 1966 - 2016, Sepia Art Collective, Oakland, CA
Mondo. NYC Music Festival & Tech Summit, Brooklyn, NY
JOINT: Video/Poetry Collaboration, Lubbock, TX
The Blackness, Solo Exhibition, CASP Satellite Gallery, Lubbock, TX
2015 Abandoned Margins: Policing the Black Female Body, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
21st Annual SPE Women’s Film & Video Festival, Las Vegas, NV
Telestrations!, Gowanus Swim Society, Brooklyn, NY
col.lab.o.rate, 5&J Gallery, Lubbock, TX
2014 20th Annual SPE Women’s Film & Video Festival, New Orleans, LA
AWARDS
2023 South Arts Mississippi Fellow for Visual Arts
2022 Artist Fellowship Grant Recipient, Mississippi Arts Commission
2016 1st Place, JOINT: Video/Poetry Collaboration
2014 - 2017 Graduate Fellowship Award, Texas Tech University
Helen Devitt Jones Talent Based Scholarship, Texas Tech University
COLLECTIONS
Ogden Museum of Art
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Artnet, “Auction Veteran Simon de Pury Explains the Bold Business Model for His Latest Auction,
Designed to Benefit Artists Above All”, New York, NY
2021 Vanity Fair, “June Sarpong on the Power of Black Art and Visual Storytelling”, New York, NY
Mississippi Public Broadcasting, “Mississippi Arts Hour | Alexis McGrigg”, Jackson, MS
http://msartshour.mpbonline.org/episodes/the-mississippi-arts-hour-alexis-mcgrigg
Christie’s, “Studio Visit: Alexis McGrigg”, New York, NY
https://www.christies.com/features/Studio-visit-with-artist-Alexis-McGrigg-11519-1.aspx?sc_lang=en
2020 Artnet, “Speculation on Black Artists Has Gotten So Intense That for Christie’s Latest Sale, Its Curator
Is Asking Buyers to Sign a Special Contract”, New York, NY
https://news.artnet.com/market/say-loud-show-christies-1901685
The Art Newspaper, “Christie's exhibition of Black art is not about virtue signaling, curator says”,
New York, NY
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/christie-s-say-it-loud-exhibition
Culture Type, “Say It Loud: Curator Destinee Ross-Sutton Partnered With Christie’s to Help Emerging
Artists Showcase and Sell Their Work”, Silver Spring, MD
2017 thebowerBird, “Review – Blackness: Violet Deep,” Lubbock, Texas
https://www.thebowerbirdlbk.com/single-post/2017/03/16/Review-Blackness-Violet-Deep
2016 thebowerBird, “Untitled Review – The Blackness,” Lubbock, Texas
https://www.thebowerbirdlbk.com/single-post/2016/02/13/February-FFAT
PRESENTATIONS / PROJECTS
2021 Delta Voices: Artists of the Mid-South, Podcast & Video Series, Arkansas Museum of Fine Art
The Ether - Journey In Between, Artist Talk, Richard Beavers Gallery
Beyond the Body with Artist Alexis McGrigg, Podcast / Episode #115, StudioNoize
2020 Studio Visit: Alexis McGrigg, Video Interview, Christie’s
Behind the Scenes with Host Laurence Fishburne, PBS TV Special, Mississippi Museum of Art
SAY IT LOUD, Artist Talk & Consortium, Christie’s in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance
Makers in Their Spaces, Online Presentation, Mississippi Museum of Art
2019 The Power of Spoken Word, National Alliance on Mental Health – MS Youth Project
2019 Blackness: Violet Deep, Artist Talk, AND Gallery