about

Alice Leora Briggs, born in an oil boomtown in West Texas, grew up in Idaho's Snake River Valley and woke up later on la frontera, the borderlands of the U.S. and México. Her investigations into human frailties generated thousands of drawings, woodcuts, letterpress broadsides, site-specific installations and books. Her artworks have been featured in over fifty solo exhibitions and are in over thirty-five public collections, including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Library of Congress, Oxford's Bodleian Library, and Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Publications include Dreamland: The Way Out of Juárez (2010), an illuminated manuscript-police blotter with writer Charles Bowden, The Room (2016), a suite of twelve woodcuts with poet Mark Strand, and Abecedario de Juárez: An Illustrated Lexicon (2022), with photojournalist Julián Cardona. Briggs was a Fulbright Scholar at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020.