Allyson Vieira

Bearing Walls I, 2014
concrete block, paint, epoxy, steel, barrier fence
64 × 72 × 8 inches
Installation view
The Plural Present, The Swiss Institute, New York, 2013
If I was a...but then again, no (1-18), 2010
plaster, concrete, and drywall
64 × 16 × 16 inches
Allyson Vieira lives and works in New York. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union and MFA in Sculpture from Bard College. Her solo exhibition, "The Plural Present," (Kunsthalle Basel, 2013) traveled to the Swiss Institute, NY (2013-2014); Karma Books recently published the exhibition's catalog (2016). Other international exhibition venues include ISET Contemporary Greek Art Institute, Athens, Greece (2016), PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, UA, as a Future Generation Art Prize finalist (2014), and Non-Objectif Sud, Tulette, France (2013). In the U.S., Vieira has exhibited at Storm King Art Center, NY (2015), Frieze Projects, NY (2015, 2014), Philbrook Museum of Art, OK (2013), Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA (2013), Public Art Fund, NY (2012), The Highline, NY (2012), and SculptureCenter, NY (2010). Recent gallery exhibitions include Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, BR (2015), The Breeder, Athens, GR (2014), Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, CA (2017, 2014), Laurel Gitlen, NY (2013, 2010), and Monica deCardenas, Milan, IT (2011).

She currently is at work on a new publication, "On the Rock: The Acropolis Interviews," forthcoming from Soberscove Press in 2018.