Bio
Alison Stigora is a site-specific artist whose work explores relationships between physical spaces, materials and the body. Often using found and natural objects, her work evokes awareness of human scale within the expanse of the natural and constructed world. Emphasizing transformation of familiar materials, Stigora creates worlds simultaneously vast and intimate, inviting viewers to pause and notice themselves and their environment in new ways.
Stigora lives and works in Seattle, USA and holds her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Previous installations include projects at the Philadelphia International Airport, Nes Artist Residency (Iceland), Arte Sella (Italy), Blackfoot Pathways Sculpture Park (Montana), and the Domaine de Chaumont sur Loire (France).
Curriculum Vitae
PUBLIC WORKS AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Flux, Domaine de Chaumont sur Loire, Centre for Arts & Nature, France
SALVAGE, MadArt Studio, Seattle, WA
2020
Shelter/Unshelter, METHOD Gallery, Seattle, WA
2019
certain/uncertain, SPAC Gallery, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA
Clearing, Sculpture in the Wild: Blackfoot Pathways Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MT
2017
Nocturne, Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, PA
2016
Seme, Arte Sella Sculpture Park, Borgo Valsugana, Italy
Hydraulica, Public Art Commission for the Fairmount Water Works Philadelphia, PA
2015
Running High-Land, Mojave Desert site-specific outdoor installation, Joshua Tree, CA
2012
Natural Forces, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Beyond the Bones, Collaboration with Kun-Yang Lin Dancers, Philadelphia, PA
2011
Crossing Jordan, The Skybox, 2424 Studios, Philadelphia, PA
Leviathan, LGTripp Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2010
Torrent, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Two interactive, contemplative sculptures open at Lincoln art park, The Missoulian, Peter Friesen, October 3, 2019.
Alison Stigora explores contrasts with her installation at Sculpture in the Wild, Blackfoot Valley Dispatch, Tammy Jordan, September 18, 2019.
Lincoln’s Art Park Continues to Grow, KPAX 8 News, Dennis Bragg, September 13, 2019.
Internationally Renowned Artists Make ArtPrize Debut in The Fed Galleries, KCAD News, kcad.ferris.edu, September 21, 2015.
Philadelphia Artist Pays Steel Tribute to Desert, Hi-Desert Star, Hilary Sloane, August 7, 2015.
Scene Seen: Without Boundaries at School 33, Bmoreart.com, March 26, 2014.
The House With A Surprise Inside, The Wall Street Journal, Nancy Keates, April 19, 2013.
Beyond the Bones with Kun-Yang Lin/ Dancers and Alison Stigora, Knight Arts Online Journal, Chip Schwartz, April 5, 2012.
Review: Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers- Beyond the Bones Revisited, The Dance Journal, Steven Weisz, April 1, 2012.
Branching Out, Grid Magazine, G.W. Miller III, Issue 33, Dec. 2011.
Imagination in the City, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Nathaniel Popkin, November 4, 2011.
Timber, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Victoria Donohoe, November 4, 2011.
CFEVA Fellows at the Crane, INLIQUID Art & Design Blog, Alison McMenamin, June 27, 2011.
Two Exhibitions in Conversation at LGTripp Gallery, The Artblog, Kathleen Vaccaro, February 19, 2011.
EDUCATION
2007 M.F.A., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2004 B.F.A., Southern Adventist University
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Midnight Sun, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA
Being Present, Green Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Nes Exhibition, Skagastrond, Iceland
2015
VERGE, Collaboration with Francis Cauffman Architects, Philadelphia, PA
Sightlines, Fed Galleries, Kendal College of Art & Design, Grand Rapids, MI
Strange Land, Joshua Tree Art Gallery, Joshua Tree, CA
Annual Juried Exhibit, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2014
Without Boundary, School 33 Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2013
Wishes/Lies/Dreams, two-person show, 1616 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
Paper Works, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ
Exhibit for BalletX, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012
DAS:BAM, 1616 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
2011
Have A Nice Day, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Booking it to Brooklyn, Gallery 210, Brooklyn, NY
CONSTRUCT, The Icebox, Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA
Resonant Vision, The 930, Louisville, KY and McCormick Place, Chicago, IL
2010
Violence and Glitter, Indoor Rooftop Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Dry Bones, 739 Flash Space, Lawrence, KS
4 x 6, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
NEW, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Humanization, Space 38|39, International Arts Movement, New York, NY
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2019
Faculty Research Grant, Seattle Pacific University
2017
Nes Artist Residency, Skagastrond, Iceland
2015
Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency, Joshua Tree, CA
Project 387 Artist Residency, Gualala, CA
2014
Art on the Circuit, Schuylkill River Trail Public Art Finalist, Philadelphia, PA
Corning Incorporated Foundation Award Nominee
2013-2014
Pilchuck Glass School Full Scholarship Recipient
2012
Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts Recipient
2010-2012
Center for Emerging Visual Artists Career Development Fellow