Resumé

Alvey is a multimedia artist utilizing paint, assemblage, printmaking, sculpture and sound, in the creation of her work. She often uses science as a foundation for her collaborative explorations. Alvey is included in the following collections; Utah Arts & Museums, Westminster College, Salt Lake County and Springville Museum of Art. Alvey was given a Salt Lake City Mayors Artist Award in 2011 and chosen as one of Utah 15 Most Influential Artist’s by Artists of Utah in 2013. She had many solo exhibits , a 4-woman show at Brigham Young University Museum of Art in 2013 and a 2-person show at the Granary Art Center curated by Scotti Hill (2016). She received the Distinguished Resident Award from Westminster College (2016). Alvey contributed a sound installation, Our Common Voice, to the Parliament of the World Religions held in Salt Lake City, 2015 and is included in both editions of Artists of Utah by Robert S. Olpin, William C. Seifrit, and Vern Swanson. Trent is included in Utah Artists Project/ J. Williard Marriott Library’s (University of Utah) digitized collections of selected Utah artists.

Education

1975-1978—Salt Lake Community College, Associates of Art and Design

1982-86 —Westminster College of SLC, BFA Art and Communications

2010, 13—Workshops – Salt Grass Printmakers, University of Utah

2006-08—Helper Art School, dormitory style immersion for four-week sessions

Awards, Acknowledgements and Board Positions

2016 — Distinguished Alumni Award for the Arts, Westminster College of Salt Lake City

2013 — Chosen as one of Utah’s 15 Most Influential Artists by 15 Bytes /Artist of Utah

2012 — Awarded a SLC Mayors Award in the Arts: Fine Art

Public Collections

2019—Springville Museum of Art – Steel and Neon Monolith, gifted by Dolores Chase, gallery owner and collector

2017—Utah Arts & Museums – Emigration, large painting, 2 Emergent Collages

2017—Westminster College - Wave Panel, neon & steel sculpture, to be installed in Jewett Center

2009 — Salt Lake County Art Collection - Shelf Life: Preserving Artifacts - Salt Lake County Art Collection: An installation of 36 Mason Jars containing artifacts

2007 —University of Utah’s Museum of Fine Art - Toaster Worship, permanent collection:

Public Art Commissions and Grants

2015—Parliament of World Religions - commission, Our Common Voice Installation of sound project

2009/10 — Central City Recreation Center, Salt Lake County, 100 foot long mural

2007— 337 Project Art Collective: 150 artists, 3-D, installations and aerosol paintings in building scheduled for demolition –thousands of visitors in 2 weeks.

Solo or 2 Person Exhibition History: Salt Lake City, Utah unless otherwise stated

2018—What I Did on My Summer Vacation: Main SL Library. Two-Person exhibit with Claudia Sisemore. Mono-prints created in Santa Fe at Michael McCabe Studio and Salt Grass Printmakers, SLC

2018—I’m Floating in a Most Peculiar Way: Finch Lane Gallery. Solo Installation. A collaboration with Westminster College micro-biologist Bonnie Baxter to explore the environs of The Great Salt Lake. Sound Design for installation by Ryan Collenburg.

2018—On The Border of Realism: two-person photography exhibit with Jan Andrews. Photos created from ink, acrylic and collage materials and then photographed. A study in scale.

2016—Tourists of the Sublime, two person exhibit, The Granary Art Center, Ephraim UT curated by Scotti Hill for Trent Alvey and Andrew Rice

2016 —three-person exhibit: Glimpses of the Subterranean, Phillips Gallery. UPCOMING: June 2016

2012 —Synchronicity: Exploring Our City Creeks, A science and art installation at the Leonardo Science Center. I did a demonstration of synchronicity and talked about our water sources with the aid of a large GPS map of Salt Lake County.

2011— UGANDA CHILDREN'S PROJECT-15th Street Gallery, Exhibition and Fundraiser for Ugandan Orphanage. Through a project I completed with children in Uganda, the sale of Fetish Dolls and my drawings raised over $5000.

2011 —Sacred Geometry, exhibit of paintings, Finch Lane Gallery

2008 —Shelf Life: Preserving Artifacts, Art Access Gallery, curated exhibit of 30 artists.

An installation of 3 dozen canning jars filled with artifacts, collected by SL Co.

2007, 2006 – Phillips Gallery – Circular Memory, Propensity for Repetition installation

2007- Salt Lake City Main Library – Tribal Portrait: Beauty and Brutality,

2005 - Kimball Art Center, Between Heaven and Earth - Park City, Utah

Group Exhibition History: Salt Lake City, NYC, NY, Hermosa Beach, CA, Cedar City, Ut

2020–Piercing, monotype print, ShockBoxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA https://www.artsy.net/artwork/trent-alvey-piercing

2020—LOVE•FREEDOM•VOTE, neon art in exhibit RETHINK AMERICA, David Benrimon Fine Art, NYC.

2020– LOVE•FREEDOM•VOTE, neon art, artists edition, Modern West Fine Art (SLC) and SUMA, Cedar City, UT

2018—Lambourne Prize: Friends of the Great Salt Lake exhibit. Fluid Dynamics. Video of feathers blowing at GSL.

2016—Utah’s Statewide Exhibit: Works on Paper, Rio Gallery, Three Times Over Erie.

2016 —2-person exhibit: Tourist of the Sublime, The Granary, Ephraim UT –UPCOMING: October – January 2017 Podcast: Tourists of the New Sublime Exhibit, Artist of Utah-15 Bytes

Trent Alvey- The New Sublime, Artist of Utah 15 Bytes

2016—Light as Medium, The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho, August 2016

2016 —The Painted Veil, Rio Gallery in Rio Grande Depot, CURRENT

2016 — Spring Gala group exhibit, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah

2015 —OUR COMMON VOICE, sound installation – rereading Pope Francis’ Laudato Si for The Parliament on Religions WORLDWIDE Conference in SLC

2015 —15th Street Gallery – group exhibit

2015—UTAH’S 15 most Influential Artists Exhibit – curated by Artists of Utah, Rio Gallery

2014— Phillips Gallery Group Exhibit

2013— WORK TO DO, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, Utah- four installation projects: Big Bad Love, a 15.5’ tall bubblewrap Brides Dress.

2012 — Trent Goes Bowling, Central Utah Art Center, Video Installation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrFFge9hN6I

2012 —The Year of the Rabbit: featuring broken mirror glass in the shape of a rabbit. Derivative of Robert Smithson's work Continent of Atlantis

2008 —Neighborhood House – Community Collaboration – Prayer Flags installed

2008—Salt Lake Art Center —Present Tense:a post 337 exhibit -Urban Artifact:210 jars

2007—337 Project – 150 artists collaborate on art for a building scheduled for demolition http://www.337project.org/ Video: After Image: The Art of 337.

1992 – Out of the Land, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington DC

Interviews, Publication and Articles

2020—The Untitled Magazine, Review of Benrimon, Fine Art Rethink America exhibit

2016 — Westminster College Review: Recipient of Distinguished Alumni Award article

https://review.westminstercollege.edu/2017-spring-review/art-frequency/https://review.westminstercollege.edu/2017-spring-review/art-frequency/

2016 —2-person exhibit: Tourist of the Sublime, The Granary, Ephraim UT –UPCOMING: October – January 2017

Podcast: Tourists of the New Sublime Exhibit, Artist of Utah-15 Bytes

Trent Alvey- The New Sublime, Artist of Utah 15 Bytes

2014— BYU – Work To Do: Trent Alvey, Pam Bowman, Jann Haworth, Amy Jorgensen - Exhibit Catalog, pub by the BYU Museum of Art, Provo, Ut.

2013—The Digital Universe—BYU, http://universe.byu.edu/tag/trent-alvey/

2013—Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, fundraiser video interview, LOVE Comm.

2013—Contemporary West, Weber State College literary publication freaturing my art series Sacred Geometry.

2013—Creator Destroyer: Splitting the Plutonium Atom, installation at Brigham Young University, Musuem of Art: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKFtJ58q30Q

2013—Pathos of Plants: Work To Do installation at Brigham Young Museum of Art —by Get Stakerized: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyQpYMSoIqU

2013—Shelf Preservation: Work To Do, Brigham Young Museum of Art: by Get Stakerized
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDrojg-y9lI

2012—Trent Alvey: "Synchronicity" - Salt Lake City Weekly- Science/Art Installation, The Leonardo, during Salt Lake Arts Festival –

2012—Traveling with Artist Trent Alvey – Foster Art Program, written Juliette Foster. 2012—Gavins Underground – Trent Alvey, Gavin Saheen
http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/blog-70-6885-trent-alvey.html

2011 —Out of Africa: Kids find hope genocide - The Salt Lake Tribune
www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment/.../alvey-art-uganda-project.html.csp‎

2011—KUER Radio interview— Ugandan Childrens Art Project, interview by Jenny Brundin
http://kuer.org/post/ugandan-children-find-joy-art-project - fundraiser in SLC

2010— Water Music: Exploring Salt Lake Countys Seven City Creeks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_Hk38w-2U

2008— Portrait of an Unlikely Friendship – about Alvey and her mentoring of a young Namibian (Africa) artist. Salt Lake Tribune, Julie Checkoway

2008 Video— After Image: The Art of 337 — Video and book, (Alvey had three installation in the 337 building) documenting 337 Project in SLC –

2007. EXPOSED: the Art Exhibit , Catalyst Magazine, exhibit curated by Alvey, exploring the legacy of atomic testing

2007 — Art Scape – Salt Lake Magazine, biography of Alvey by Tessa Woolf

2007 Video — Tribal Portrait, Google Video, SLC Library,

BIOGRAPHY

The first twelve summers of Alvey’s life were spent in the northern LaSal National Forest, where her father was a district ranger. She had an instinct for exploring and experiencing wild places. Her intrigue for science developed in the Utah mountains and continues to influence her work as a mixed-media artist. Alvey’s art is a form of self-inquiry, giving her a vehicle to explore questions of global to local importance.