Alicia Grullón

Alicia Grullón is a Bronx-based artist, professor, writer and organizer who creates art about the environment, politics, and human and more-than-human dynamics and relations. Grullón’s works have been shown in numerous group exhibitions including The 8th Floor, Bronx Museum of the Arts, BRIC House for Arts and Media, El Museo del Barrio, and Columbia University among others. She has received grants from the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of New York, and Franklin Furnace Archives. Her activist work led her to be one of the organizers of People’s Cultural Plan, a collective of cultural workers addressing inadequacies with the city’s first proposed cultural plan. The PCP’s 17-page plan is divided into 3 planks: Housing & Displacement, Cultural Funding Equity & Labor Equity. It launched in July 2017 at Artists Space and in September, PCP’s response to the city’s plan was published in Hyperallergic. Grullon has co-authored Op Eds about PCP for Hyperallergic and City Limits. Grullón's legislative art project PERCENT FOR GREEN created a green bill with Bronx residents looking at climate change from the perspective of environmental racism. This project contributed to her acting as one of the co-lead organizers in the Bronx for the People's Climate March. She has presented on this project at the Art Historians Association conference in London, United States Art Educators Association, The 8th Floor, Creative Time Summit 2015, The Pratt Institute, and The American Museum of Natural History.