Allyson Vieira

Bio

Sculptor Allyson Vieira lives and works in New York. She is Associate Professor of Foundations and Sculpture at the Corcoran School of Art at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.. She has exhibited extensively internationally and in the U.S., including institutional projects with Kunsthalle Basel, Swiss Institute, Fall River MoCA, Storm King Art Center, PinchukArtCentre, Non-Objectif Sud, Frieze Projects, The Public Art Fund, The Highline, and SculptureCenter. Her catalog, Allyson Vieira: The Plural Present, was published by Karma Books in 2016, and her book of interviews with Greek master marble carvers, On the Rock: The Acropolis Interviews, for which she received grants from the Graham Foundation, the Henry Moore Foundation, and FLACC, is available from Soberscove Press. She was a visiting artist at Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies in '21-22, and Fabric Festival in '22-23, and she received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Fellowship to Greece in AY '24-25 where she studied traditional, hand-done marble carving at the Higher School of Marble Carving and Fine Arts of Panormos, on Tinos, GR.

Classes Taught

Foundations, Core Fine Arts curriculum, Sculpture, Color Theory

Publications/Selected Articles

• Adam Szymczyk and Simon Castets, eds., Allyson Vieira: The Plural Present, Karma Books, 2016 (Catalogue)
• Allyson Vieira, On The Rock: The Acropolis Interviews, Soberscove Press, 2019 (Book)
• "Building a Transhistorical We: Allyson Vieira in Conversation with Brooke Holmes," X-TRA, Winter 2019-2020, volume 22, number 2, pp. 14-27 (Article)
• "Allyson Vieira," PLAT, Vol. 11.5, "Ordinary," February 2024 (Article)

Education

MFA, Sculpture, Bard College, 2010
BFA, Art, The Cooper Union, 2001