Alice Lang (born 18 March 1983) is an Australian contemporary artist."Art in the pink: feminism and colour". Visual Artshub, Madeleine Dore, 7 May 2015 She works and lives in Los Angeles, CA. Lang has mounted many solo exhibitions of her work, and participated extensively in group exhibitions. She has held residencies in Canada, New York, and Los Angeles.
Lang's work is often feminist in nature, utilising mixed media."Review: The feeling will pass…" . Rachel Fuller, Runway."Feminism with the frown turned upside down". The Age, May 9, 2013. Sonia Harford Lang often creates sculptural forms involving the female body that are surreal and organic in appearance."Ring of life" Sydney Morning Herald"Ocula Report: Spring 1883". Ocula, Amelia Winata, Melbourne. 25 Aug 2016.
Early life and education Lang grew up in Byron Bay, New South Wales."Splendid new artists". Northern River Echo. st Jul 2009 In 2004 she gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts with First Class Honours from Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, specializing in visual arts."Alice Lang: OM NOM NOM NOM". Concrete Playground, July 08, 2013 by James Frostick Lang graduated with an MFA from CalArts in 2015.
Career Lang's work was included in the Institute of Modern Art's 2004 Brisbane exhibition of recent art school graduates."What next?". Realtime Arts, issue #60 April–May 2004 pg. 38. by Sally Brand
In 2007 her art was included in the "Topsy" exhibition at the Metro Arts Gallery."Topsy". Artlink, Vol 27 no 4, 2007, Holly Arden Her "soft sculptures" were part of the 2008 show Together Forever at the Broadway Gallery in New York."The Ties That Bond Us". New York Magazine, Nov 17, 2008. Jill Smith
In 2010, Lang co-founded LEVEL, an artist-run initiative and feminist collective in Brisbane Australia with artists Courtney Coombs, and Rachel Haynes.
In 2013, Lang was a finalist for the churchie national emerging art prize. Her work Boxcopy Slide Night was on exhibit at the Metro Arts Gallery.
In 2016 Lang's work was included in an exhibition at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival."Melbourne International Comedy Festival inspires artists to make fun of art". Sydney Morning Herald, March 17, 2016 She also contributed works to the Fragmented Gaze exhibit at the Los Angeles Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery.
Grants and awards Lang has been the recipient of many grants and awards including the Queensland Art Gallery Melville Haysom Scholarship (2009), the Australia Council Emerging Artist New Work Grant (2012), the Lord Mayor's Young and Emerging Artist Fellowship (2012) and the Freedman Foundation Traveling Scholarship for Emerging Artists (2013).
Exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions 2021 Cool story bro, Louise Alexander Gallery/AF Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2016 BLOWBACK, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, AUS 2015 AIRHEADS, CalArts, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2013 Womp Womp Womp Womp, CalArts, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2013 OM NOM NOM NOM, Boxcopy, Brisbane, QLD, AUS 2013 Forget I Said Anything, RAID Projects studio space, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2012 Teetering at the Edge of Rock Bottom, InFlight ARI, Hobart, TAS, AUS 2011 Multiple Visions, Grantpirrie window space, Redfern, Sydney, NSW, AUS 2010 Just in Case, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane, QLD, AUS 2010 Crossing Over, Firstdraft, Surrey Hills, Sydney, NSW, AUS
Selected group exhibitions
2017 Let's Talk About Art, Artbank, Sydney, NSW, AUS 2017 Close Enough, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra, QLD, AUS 2016 Domestic Observations, JACE Space, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2016 The Wicked Tongue, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2016 Unfolding/Folding, KINGS, Melbourne, AUS 2016 Spring 1883, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, AUS 2016 2017, Art Centre, Pasadena, CA, USA 2016 Is This Thing On?, Counihan Gallery in Brunswick, Melbourne, AUS
References
External links CV of Alice Lang "Alice Lang You Beauty". The Churchie Awards, page 46. "A Material Concern: The Art of Alice Lang" profile by Tim Walsh. Das Super Pape 20 (August 2011). LEVEL art collective