UPCOMINGThe Ballinglen Museum of Art - The Ballinglen Arts Foundation and Museum of Art Second International Biennial ExhibitionBallycastle, Co. Mayo, Ireland - 31st August 2025 - 9th January 2026 PAST SHOWSUniversity of the Arts FACULTY PRINTMAKERS June 1 - July 20, 2025705 WEST PRINTSHOP + GALLERY 705 WEST AVENUE, JENKINTOWN, PA Sculptural Artist Books: Mapping PlaceBallinglen Arts Foundation Gallery, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland, May 3-27, 2025Opening reception, May 3, 2025 Book artist Alice Austin creates sculptural books that celebrate place: Italy, Ireland and Philadelphia. Her graphic prints, from hand-carved linoleum, distill images and evoke place. The unusual sculptural forms of her books present the idea of the artwork. Words, when used, reinforce the visual. Color and texture abound, drawing the viewer in to explore, with the artist, places near and far. CODEX IX — International Biennial Book FairHJK Convention Center, Oakland California February 4-7, 2024 The Art of the BookVenice Studio View tunnel book is now on display as part of The Art of the Book exhibition at Temple University, Charles Library Gallery in Philadelphia through July 17, 2024. From the show web site: The Art of the Book: Treasures from Special Collections showcases a variety of artworks housed in the Special Collections Research Center at Temple University's Charles Library. The diverse examples featured in this show challenge our preconceived notions and expand our definitions of this type of object. Melding illustration, painting, object-making, calligraphy, and storytelling, the objects featured in The Art of the Book transmit a robust sense of the time and place in which they were created. Many of these books function as repositories of memory that simultaneously reflect the values, history, and available technologies of the particular cultural moment in which they were created. The thematic groupings of these treasures display the variety of ways in which artists from across the globe have dealt with similar subject matter and content. Companion video from Temple's series A Look at a Book features Alice's tunnel book along with two of her Ventian-inspired works also held at the Temple University collection. Abstraction: Landscapes and OtherscapesBallinglen Museum of Art, Ballycastle, Co. Mayo, Ireland Oct. 28, 2022 - March 11, 2023 An exhibition of work from the Ballinglen Permanent Collection, curated by Ruth Fine Designer Bookbinders International Bookbinding Competition 2022 " A Gathering of Leaves"Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University, UK July 6 - Sept. 18, 2022 The exhibition will be open to the public until 18th September, when it will move to Sotheby's in Central London and then onto the University of Edinburgh Library until the New Year 2023 COVID YEARApril 1 – 23, 2021 All Sorts (No Licorice!)Bainbridge Island Museum of Art ALICE AUSTIN & LOUISE PEZZI: MEDIEVAL TO MODERNExhibition | |
| Straight out of Ireland | Friday, Nov. 15, through Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019 Sacred Heart Academy, Bryn Mawr, Pa. |
| CODEX VII - 2019 | February 3-6, 2019 The Craneway Pavilion 1414 Harbor Way South Richmond, CA 94804 |
| Solo Exhibit - Alice Austin’s Ocean Prints | - Philadelphia Print Shop - August 1 - September 2018 | Maxima Expresión - Otras Formas de Ver y Hacer Los Libros | Group exhibit, Biblioteca de Mexico, Mexico City, October 18 - November 25, 2018 |
| New Studio, New Work | 1241 Carpenter Art+Space Saturday, Feb. 1, 2018 |
| CODEX Book Fair and Symposium | Berkeley, CA, 2017 |
| Manhattan Fine Press Book Fair | March 11, 2017 |
| Tenth Annual Art of the Book | Seager Grey Gallery, Mill Valley, CA, May 5 - 31, 2015 |
| Source Material | Fine Art Museum, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, June 15 - July 24, 2015 |
| Middlearth Book Arts Exhibit | Tannery Arts Center, Santa Cruz, CA, June 12 - July 12, 2015 |
| Hello Hedi | Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR, June 5 - July 25, 2015 |
| The Atlas Imagined | The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, April 10 - June 6, 2015 |
| Without Covers: The Book as Art | Seedboat Gallery Silver City, NM, September 25 - October 25, 2015 |
| Upcycled: Bound Journals Transformed | Scott Memorial Library, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, October 5 - December 18, 2015 |
| Solo exhibit - University of the Arts | Encircled by Water: Venice and Ireland, January 20, - February 6, 2015 |
| Exhibitor at the CODEX Book Fair and Symposium | Berkeley, CA, Feb. 8-11 2015. |
| ABC Collaborative Book | Free Library of Philadelphia July 2013 - September 2013 |
| Print Center 87th International Exhibition, 2013 | Philadelphia, PA - Alice was a semi-finalist with the Rome Map series |
| Narrative Threads | Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO, June 21 - August 3, 2013 |
| The Rome Project in Denver | Maps: From the Local to the Global Anderson Academic Commons, University of Denver, March – August 2013 |
| Secondary Colors | DVC-GBW exhibit at Harvard University Cabot Science Library at Harvard University through May 18, 2013. |
| CODEX International Book Fair | Berkeley, CA Feb. 10-13, 2013 |
| Visiting Artist | ARTHaus4, Gmunden, Austria September, 2012 |
| PAPYRI | Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy, October 19-27, 2012 |
| Alice Austin: The Rome Project | Solo exhibit, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver CO, February 2012 |
| National Archives of Philadelphia | Libro Curio, Group show, October 2011 - March 2012, Philadelphia PA |
| Struttura e Contunento | Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice Italy, October, 2011 |
| Inventive Structures: Books Beyond the Codex | A national exhibition juried by Hedi Kyle |
| Alice Austin: The Rome Project | Solo exhibit, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver CO, February 17- April 7, 2012 |
| Center for Book Arts | New York Panorama concertina workshop May 12, 2012 |
| The Art of the Library Company | Group show at the Library Company of Philadelphia, through June, 2, 2012 |
| See a video of Alice's presentation at the Library of Congress in 2015 | |
| Ongoing: Alice at Vamp and Tramp booksellers | |
| Alice interviewed on Isseylingo.com | |
| Hear Alice's interview with Steve Miller at PBI 2008 | |
| Hear Alice's Alice's interview with "The BookGuys" from the Oak Knoll Book Fest. | (She's the last interview in the program) |
| Featured on the New Yorker's Book Bench blog » |  |
| Making Handmade Books By Alisa Golden, 2012 |  At Amazon.com» | 1000 Artists' Books by Salamony and Thomas |  |
| 500 Handmade Books - volume 2, by Salamony and Thomas. At Amazon.com» |  |
| Featured in Magic Books, By Esther K. Smith, Purgatory Pie Press, 2008 | At Barnes & Noble.com and Amazon.com |
| Featured in 500 Handmade Books |  Lark Books, 2008. Also at Barnes &
Noble.com» and Amazon.com» |