Recipient Information
Location
Byram, Mississippi
Medium
Visual Arts
Project Title
Southern Artist Spotlight Grant
Year of Award
2027
Grant or Fellowship
Southern Artist Spotlight Grant
Grant Amount
$0
Alexis McGrigg is a contemporary artist who examines themes of space, time, spirituality, identity, blackness, and collective consciousness. Her artwork utilizes the mediums of painting, drawing, and interdisciplinary media to explore the multiplicity of Blackness through figurative abstraction and conceptual narratives. She integrates poetry, sound, performance, and experimental video in her arts practice and research. Her artwork is included in several private collections and has been featured in exhibitions across the U.S. and internationally in New York, NY, Chicago, IL, Miami, FL, New Orleans, LA, and Oakland, CA – most recently in her solo exhibitions In The Beloved at Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, The Labour of Being at Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France, and The Ether - Journey In Between at Richard Beavers Gallery, NYC; group exhibitions, New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., The Contemporary South at the Ogden Museum, New Orleans, LA, Women in Abstraction at Almine Rech, NYC, Color Coded at BODE Projects, Berlin, Germany, SAY IT LOUD at Christie’s Auction House, and LIGHT at the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA) in South Korea.
Artist Fee: $5,000
Availability: Available year-round, excluding late Fall 2026 (October–December).
Apparition of a Boy
Second Calling
