About the Artist
Sonya McAlister’s current work reflects the idea that the understanding and healing at the heart of connection has the ability to guide us to answers that will support the health and longevity of nature. Her work is rooted in themes of connection, temporality, perception and experience. Sonya’s primary mediums are painting, drawing, printmaking and installation.
The artist lives and works in Pine Mountain, CA and the Los Angeles area. Her work has recently been selected by some of the following Curators: Jessica Beck: Milton Fine Curator of Art at The Andy Warhol Museum, Steven Wong: Curator at LA Municipal Gallery and former Director/Curator at the Chinese American Museum, Jared Steffensen: Artist and Curator at MOCA Utah. She has participated in International Art Fairs such as Aqua and SCOPE during Basel in Miami, Florida.
Sonya received her MFA from University of Florida and did her undergraduate work at Ringling School of Art and Design and Mars Hill University.
Contact the Artist at: sonyaart@outlook.com
Selected Exhibitions:
2022 A Sense of Place, Augusta, Georgia, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art. Juror: Erin Dunn, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Telfair Museum in, Savannah, GA
2022 Tieton 10x10x10, Tieton, WA. Tieton Arts and Humanities. Juror: Bruce Guenther, Curator at Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. He also served as Chief Curator for Portland Art Museum, Orange County Museum of art and Seattle Art Museum.
2020 21st Annual Willis Creek Exhibition of Fine Art, Cumberland, Maryland. Juror: Jessica Beck, Milton Fine Curator of Art at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh,
2020 Field of Vision, Los Angeles, CA. Juror: Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA).
2020 Art Matters More Now Then Ever, Phylogeny Contemporary, Seattle WA.
2020 Place, Solo Show. Phylogeny Contemporary, Seattle WA. Virtual Artist Talk and studio visit.
2020 35th Annual International Exhibition, Meadows Gallery@ University of Texas, Tyler, TX. Juror: Leslie Moody Castro, Independent Curator.
2019 Fresh 2019, South Bay Contemporary SoLa, Los Angeles, CA. Juror: Steven Wong, Curator at LA Municipal Gallery, previously the Interim Executive Director and the senior staff curator at the Chinese American Museum.
2019 Small Matters, 437CO Gallery @ Costa University, Grand Junction, CO. Juror: Jared Steffensen, an artist and curator at MOCA in Salt Lake City, Utah.
2018 LA Open 2018, Tag Gallery, Los Angels, CA. Juror: James Panozzo: Director of Lawrence Asher Gallery, created the non-profit social enterprise: Launch LA, co-founder of TarFest among other LA based projects.
2018 In the Fields: Botanical Lore, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA. Juror: Jennifer Perlmutter of Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery
2018 CA Open, Tag Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Juror: Artist Kim Abeles,
2017 5x5x5, River Oaks Gallery, Alexandria, LA. Juror: Mark Tullos an American Museum Director, Director of the Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans, currently serving as Interim Director for the Louisiana Veterans Museum.
2016 AQUA during Art Basel Miami, Phylogeny Contemporary, Miami, FL
2014 All Fired Up, Gallery 66, Cold Spring, NY, Jurors: Wendy Gilvey and Ronda Schaer. Schaer is the longtime owner of RAS Galleries in Napa Valley, Calif., and Gilvey is
founder of Hudson Beach Glass in Beacon, NY.
2013 SCOPE during Art Basel Miami, C. Emerson Fine Arts, Miami, FL
2013 Providence Art Club, Juried Exhibition, Providence, RI, Juror: Kristen Carbone, Assistant Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art RISD, Providence, RI
2013 Small Wonders, Maryland Federation of Art (Second Place) Juror: Laura Ammusen, Director of Exhibitions at Goucher College, Annapolis, Maryland.
2013 Lucky 13, The Mesquite Fine Arts Gallery, Mesquite, NV
2013 Timeless Meditations, Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ
2012 Lucid Dreams, C Emerson Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
2011 2011 Juried Show, Studio @620, St. Petersburg, FL
2010 Clear Impressions, Solo Show, 600 Block Art District, St. Petersburg, FL
