Alisha B Wormsley joins the Visiting Artist series in conjunction with the ICA at MECA&D's exhibition otherwise, on view October 3 - December 13, 2025.
Alisha B. Wormsley (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer. Her work contributes to the imagining of the future of arts, science, and technology through the Black matriarchal lens, challenging contemporary views of modern American life through whichever medium she feels is the best form of expression.
Alisha B. Wormsley, Remnants of an Advanced Technology, 2021. Photo by David Michael Cortes. Courtesy of the artist and CUE Art Foundation.
Recent exhibitions, projects, and public art commissions include: Creative Time open call with collaborator Suzanne Kite, a solo commission for the new International Arrivals Corridor at the Pittsburgh International Airport, and a solo exhibition at CUE Arts Foundation. Wormsley’s ongoing project, There Are Black People In The Future, recently exhibited at the Oakland Museum, VCUArts Qatar, Speed Museum, Southbank Arts London, Times Square Arts, gives mini-grants to open up discourse around displacement and gentrification and was awarded a fellowship with Monument Lab. In 2020, Wormsley launched an art residency for Black artists whose mother called Sibyls Shrine. She is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts with longtime collaborator Li Harris, an Awardee of the Sundance Interdisciplinary grant, the Carol Brown Achievement award, among others. Wormsley has an MFA in Film and Video from Bard College and is an Assistant Professor of Art and Social Practice in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University.
Visiting Artist talks are free and open to the public on a space-available basis.
Learn more about otherwise, at the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA&D.
Funded by the generous support of the TD Charitable Foundation.