Alisha Piercy

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Gender Female
Location Montréal
Introduction Alisha Piercy is a Montreal-based writer, artist, and paintings conservator. Her recent installation at Fofa Gallery, Montreal, YOU HAVE HAIR LIKE FLAGS, FLAGS THAT POINT IN MANY DIRECTIONS AT ONCE BUT CANNOT PINPOINT LAND WHEN LOST AT SEA, is a live wall drawing performance and chapbook (Your Lips to Mine Press, Montreal and Berlin, 2010). Piercy has worked on projects in Canada, Argentina, Iceland and Mexico, and has exhibited in Montreal, Kingston, and Halifax. Her next project is at the Culture Night Festival in Iceland, a collaboration with Oskar Ericsson and local Boy Scouts who will set twenty-two rafts alight off the coast of Reykjavik. Her first book AURICLE / ICEBREAKER, will be published this Spring with Conundrum Press. She was born in Kingston, Ontario.