Alyson Shotz (b. 1964, Glendale, AZ; lives and works in Brooklyn, New York) is known for experiential, large-scale sculptures inspired by natural and scientific phenomena that subvert their physicality in order to explore the phenomenological experience of space, gravity and light.
She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the University of Washington, Seattle.
Shotz has been exhibiting at the Gallery since 2001. Recent noteworthy projects include: Vínculo, 2025, a monumental permanent work curated by the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Embassy, Mexico City; Scattering Screen, 2025, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK; A World Made of Time, 2024, New York Botanical Garden; Entanglement, 2022, Billie Tisch Center for Integrated Sciences, Skidmore College; and The Robes of Justitia, 2022, The Fred D. Thompson Federal Building and US Courthouse, Nashville, TN for which she received the GSA Honor Award: Highest Achievement in Art.
She has had solo exhibitions at Hermann Park Conservancy, Houston (2024); Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte (2024); GSA Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (2023); Grace Farms, New Canaan (2021); and the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro (2019). She has also been included in group exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2025); Speed Art Museum, Louisville (2025); Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. (2024); DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln (2023); and the Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain (2021).
Her works are included in numerous public collections, such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AR; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum; San JoseĢ Museum of Art; Storm King Art Center; and Yale University Art Gallery, among others.