Alicia Grullón

Alicia Grullón, a 2018-2019 Artist-in-Residence at The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University, directs her interdisciplinary practice toward critiques of the politics of presence, arguing for the inclusion of disenfranchised communities in political and social spheres. She is co-organizer and co-author of the People’s Cultural Plan, a coalition of artists, cultural workers, and activists responding to New York City’s first ever cultural plan in 2017. Her work has been shown at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, El Museo del Barrio, Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery, BRIC Arts, Spring/Break Art Show, and Performa 11, among others.

Grullón is also a contributing author to Rhetoric, Social Value and the Arts: But How Does it Work?, edited by Nicola Mann and Charlotte Bonham-Carter (Palgrave Macmillan, London) and Bridging Communities Through Socially Engaged Art edited by Alice Wexler and Vida Sabbaghi (Routledge, New York). Recent activities include the Shandaken Project inaugural artist residency on Governors Island and the Bronx Museum of the Arts AIM Alum program at 80 White Street. Grullón is an adjunct professor at The School of Visual Arts and City University of New York (CUNY).