Alicia Escott is an interdisciplinary artist based in the land we currently call San Francisco. She practices in solidarity with thinkers across fields undoing the construct of “nature” as a thing separated from us and our world. Her work is informed by how we each negotiate our day-to-day realities amid an awareness of the overarching specter of climate-chaos, mass-extinction— and the social and political unrest such rapid change and unprocessed grief produces. Her work makes space for the unspoken individual and collective experiences of loss, heartbreak and grief. This work is informed by scientific study and the examination and undoing of cultural narratives, she approaches these issues with an interstitial practice encompassing writing, drawing, word-making, painting, photography, video, sculpture, social-practice, community engagement, composting, seed-planting, and activism.

Alicia’s work has been shown in over 100 art-institutions, galleries, and alternative spaces— including exhibitions at: Telematic Media Arts, Berkeley Arts Center, Bolinas Museaum, the Headlands Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), The San Francisco Maritime Museum, The Berkley Art Museum, and Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbra.
A founding member of the collective 100 Days Action and half of the Social Practice Project The Bureau of Linguistical Reality, Escott’s work has been featured in The BBC, Smithsonian Magazine, The Economist, The New Yorker, MOMUS, The San Francisco Chronicle, KQED, The BBC and many others. Escott is an adjunct professor at California College of the Arts
She has been in residence at: Fresh Ground Pepper, Little Pond, PA (2025), Anthropocene Laboratories, Stora Karslö Island, Sweden (2025), I-Park Artist Residency (2023), Lucid Art Foundation Residency (2023) Dream Farm Commons (2022), The Growlery (2019), Recology SF Artist Residency (2019), Irving Street Projects (2017), Djerassi Resident Artist Program, (2012), Anderson Ranch Art Center (2010), J B Blunk Residency (2009) and is the current SFAC Artist in Resident at The San Francisco Department of the Environment for 2026.