Alyson Shotz is an American artist based in Brooklyn , New York. Born in Glendale, Arizona, in 1964. She graduated with a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1987 and an MFA from the University of Washington in 1991.
Alyson Shotz investigates concepts of space, light and perception with sculptures made from a range of synthetic materials such as mirror, glass beads, plastic lenses, thread and steel wire.
In The New York Times
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"Light and Landscape," Sept. 21, 2012 "Phase Shift," March 13, 2009 "Space Exploration, Conducted on a Spiral," July 20, 2007 "The Artist as the Star of a Silent Comedy," March 6, 2005 "Impressions of the Yard, Visual and Olfactory," June 27, 2003 Stanford University , Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge, Palo Alto, CAUniversity of South Florida , Carol and Frank Morsani Health Center, Tampa, Fl.Ohio University , ARC building, Athens, OhioMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Research Center, New York, NY University of Houston , Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Houston, TXHigh Museum of Art , Atlanta, GeorgiaBaltimore Museum of Art Blanton Museum of Art , Austin, TXThe Broad, Los Angeles, CA Davis Museum at Wellesley College The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Harvard University , Cambridge, MA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden , Washington, DC Indianapolis Museum of Art Kunst am Bau Foundation, Germany Los Angeles County Museum of Art Museum of Fine Arts, Houston , TX The Museum of Modern Art National Gallery of Art , Washington, DC New York Public Library The Phillips Collection , Washington, DCRose Art Museum , Waltham, MASan Francisco Museum of Modern Art , San Francisco, CA Storm King Art Center , Mountainville, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Yale University Art Gallery , New Haven, CT "Alyson Shotz: Force of Nature," at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art , Clinton NY "Pattern: Follow the Rules," at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum , East Lansing, MI "Fluid State," Indianapolis Museum of Art , Indianapolis, IN "Ecliptic," Phillips Collection, Washington, DC "Geometry of Light," Espace Louis Vuitton , Tokyo, Japan "The More Things Change," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , San Francisco, CA "Sightings: Alyson Shotz," Nasher Sculpture Center , Dallas, Texas "Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum," The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , New York, NY "Standing Wave," Wexner Center for the Arts , Columbus, Ohio "5+5: New Perspectives," Storm King Art Center , Mountainville, NY "Material World," Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art , North Adams, MA "New Work: Žilvinas Kempinas, Alyson Shotz, Mary Temple," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA "Currents: Recent Acquisitions," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden , Washington, DC "The Shapes of Space," The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. 
