Alice Anderson (b. 1972, London) is a performance artist based in London. 

 

Anderson studied fine art at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and Goldsmiths College, London. Since 2008, Anderson has been exploring body movement in her practice that includes studies of femininity and gender.

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Her drawings are generated through repetitive gestures and experiences with her dancers, using oil pastel, copper oil paint and coloured pencils. Her sculptures are made from weaving copper-coloured wire around objects and architecture to ‘memorise’ them. Anderson uses the term ‘memorisation’ to describe the tracing of memory circuits around objects using wire in a meditative ritual.

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Anderson has exhibited and performed internationally at museums including National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow (2019); Drawing Room, London (2019); DenFrie Centre of Contemporary Art, Denmark (2018); La Patinoire Royale, Brussels (2018); Espace Vanderborgh, Brussels (2018); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2017, 2010); Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai (2016); Espoo Museum of Arts, Finland (2015); Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris (2015); Wellcome Collection, London (2014); 55th Venice Biennale, Venice (2013); Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2012); Kunsthalle Dusseldorf (2011); Freud Museum, London (2011). 

Anderson’s work is held in the permanent collections of the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Espoo Museum, Finland; Wellcome Collection, London; Fond National d’Art Contemporain, France; Fond Regional d’Art Contemporain, France; and Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris.

 

In 2019, Anderson is artist-in-residence of Atelier Calder, Saché, France.