Alyson Shotz is known for large scale sculptures that subvert their own physicality in order to explore the phenomenological experience of space, gravity, light and matter.
Recent projects have included: Scattering Surface at Hermann Park Conservancy, Entanglement a permanent sculpture at theBillie Tisch Center for Integrated Sciences, Skidmore College; The Robes of Justitia a GSA permanent mosaic inside the dome of the Fred D. Thompson Federal courthouse, Nashville, TN; Temporal Shift at Grace Farms Foundation in CT, and permanent acquisitions at the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, and The Academy Art Museum. She has also been included in exhibitions such as Line of Wit at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, The More Things Change, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Art and Space at the Guggenheim Bilbao, Contemplating the Void and The Shapes of Space, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Light and Landscape at Storm King Art Center, Living Color, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC and Taking Space: Women Artists and the Politics of Scale at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia. She has had solo exhibitions at the The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, The MSU Broad Art Museum, The Weatherspoon Museum, The Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, and Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo, among others. Shotz was the Anne Stark Locher and Kurt Locher MacDowell Fellow in 2022, she received The GSA Honor Award: Highest Achievement in Art 2022 for “The Robes of Justitia”, she was an Arts Institute Research Fellow at Stanford University in 2014- 2015, a Sterling Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, 2012, she received a Pollock Krasner Award in 1999 and 2010, the Saint Gaudens Memorial Fellowship in 2007, and was the 2005-2006 Happy and Bob Doran Artist in Residence at Yale University Art Gallery, and in 2004 she received a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work is included in numerous public collections, such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Guggenheim Bilbao, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, The High Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Phillips Collection, The DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, The San Jose Museum of Art, Storm King Art Center, and The Yale University Art Gallery, among others