Selected Exhibitions

  • Holding Ground: Artist’s Books for the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, 2023 - 2024

  • 112th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Back to Front: Artists’ Books by Women, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia, 2023 - 2023

  • Changing the Conversation, Collins Memorial Library, University of Puget Sound,

    Tacoma, WA, 2022

  • Boundless, Cynthia Sears Collection, Bainbridge Island Art Museum, WA, 2022

  • Adaptation, Environmental Design Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2022

  • Office of Art in Embassies, US Embassy, Dili, Timor-Leste, 2021-2023

  • Office of Art in Embassies, US Embassy, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2021 - 2023

  • Every Day & Special Days, Cynthia Sears Collection, Bainbridge Island Art Museum, WA 2021

  • Water Is…, Cynthia Sears Collection, Bainbridge Island Art Museum, WA, 2021

  • Archive, Surface Design Association, 2020

  • Intersections: Book Arts as Convergence, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 2020

  • Office of Art in Embassies, US Embassy, Vientiane, Laos, 2017-2019

  • Unhinged: Book Arts on the Cutting Edge, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA, 2015-2016

  • We’ve Come This Far, African American Museum, Dallas, TX, 2014

  • Art in the Urban Garden, Lilstreet Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2014

  • Modest in Scale, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver CO, 2012

  • Conjuring Home, South Dallas Cultural Center, TX 2011

  • Altered States: Artists Re-imagine the Book, Reed Whipple Cultural Center Gallery, Las Vegas, NV, 2009

  • Art of the Book, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA, 2009

  • Art, Fact and Artifact: The Book in Time and Place, Iowa Artisan’s Gallery, Iowa City, IA, 2009

  • Considering the Book as a Work of Art, Codex International Book Fair, Berkeley, CA, 2009

  • Maternal Legends, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR, 2008

  • Natural Images, Nurturing Voices, Bradshaw Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2008

  • Wrapping Home Around Me, 14th Street Gallery, Plano, TX, 2008

  • Pacific Festival of the Book, VAC Gallery, Victoria, BC, Canada, 2007

  • Watermark 2006 Works on Paper, SE Community College, Whiteville, SC

  • 88 Numbers, Kettle Art Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2006

  • Draw_drawing_2, The Foundry Gallery, London, UK, 2006

  • 5th Biennial National Art Exhibit, Visual Art Center, Punta Gorda, FL, 2006

  • RAC National, RAC Gallery, San Antonio, TX, 2005

  • The Halpert Biennial, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, 2005

Selected Collections

  • Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Cynthia Sears Collection, WA

  • Baylor University, Crouch Library, Waco, TX

  • Baylor University, Central Libraries, Waco, TX

  • Bowdoin College, W. Van Alan Clark, Jr Library, Brunswick, ME

  • Emory University, Stuart A. Rose Library, Atlanta, GA

  • George Mason University, Fenwick Library, Farifax, VA

  • Lafayette College, Skillman Library, Easton, PA

  • Louisiana State University, Hill Memorial Library, Baton Rouge

  • Maryland Institute College of Art, Decker Library, Baltimore

  • Middlebury College, Special Collections and Archives, VT

  • New York Public Library, Schomburg Center, NYC

  • Pennsylvania State University, Eberly Family Special Collections Library, University Park

  • Princeton University, Firestone Library, NJ

  • Rhode Island School of Design, Fleet Library, Providence

  • Reed College, Portland, OR

  • Rochester Institute of Technology Cary Graphic Arts Collection

  • Savannah College of Art and Design, Jen Library, GA

  • Smith College, Neilson Library, Northampton, MA

  • Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

  • Texas Tech University, Southwest Collections, Lubbock

  • The British Library, North American Collections, London, UK

  • The Ohio University, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections, Athens

  • Tufts University, Tisch Library, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Medford, MA

  • Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

  • University of California, Berkeley, Environmental Design Library

  • University of California, Los Angeles, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library

  • University of California, San Diego, Giesel Library

  • University of Central Florida, Orlando

  • University of Colorado, Norlin Library, Boulder

  • University of Denver, Penrose Library, CO

  • University of Illinois, University Library, Urbana-Champaign

  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  • University of Missouri at Columbia, Ellis Library Special Collections

  • University of Nevada, Reno

  • University of Puget Sound, Collins Memorial Library, Tacoma, WA

  • University of Texas, San Antonio

  • University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Burlington

  • University of Washington, Libraries Book Art and Rare Book Collection, Seattle

  • University of Wisconsin, Kohler Art Library, Madison

  • US Library of Congress, Rare Book Room, Artist Book Collection, Washington, DC

  • Vanderbilt University, Heard Library, Nashville, TN

  • Virginia Commonwealth University, James Cabell Library, Richmond, VA

  • Yale University, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, New Haven, CT

Publications

  • Banks, A. Reading Roots, “Openings: Studies in Book Arts, CBAA,” Volume 5 (2022)

  • Banks, A. Political Bodies: Agency and Intention, “Changing the Conversation,” exhibition catalog, University of Puget Sound, 2022

  • Ingram, Heidi, Alisa Banks: Textile Stories Pieced Together, Textileartist.org,, October 2020

  • Exposure, Surface Design Association Journal, pg. 38, Vol. 43, No. 2, Summer 2019

  • Blassingame, T., Freedom of the Presses: Artists Books in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Marshall Weber, Booklyn, Inc., NYC, NY, 2018, ISBN: 978-0-692-16678-9

  • Borsuk, A., The Book, MIT Press, May, 2018, Cambridge, MA, ISBN: 9780262535410

  • Spectacular Collections: Unique, Rare, and Undeniably Special Collections, Libraries, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Pg. 11, Fall Vol. 2, No. 3, Fall 2017

  • Banks, A., Alisa Banks: Origins, Aysia Woods, Art of the Journey, July 18 2016

  • Art Quilt Collage: A Creative Journey in Fabric, Paint & Stitch, Deborah Boschert, pg. 88, 2016

  • McNeill, B., More than words: 16 of the most interesting and unusual items in VCU's Book Art Collection, VCU News, Friday, May 22, 2015

  • Meier, A., A Portal to Unite the Smithsonian Libraries Artists’ Books Collection, Hyperallergic, Feb.12, 2015

  • Family, Studio Art Quilt Association Journal, pg. 18, Vol. 24, No. 2, Spring 2014

  • 500 Handmade Books, ed. Julie Chen, Lark Books, pp. 31, 61, 2013

  • Bailey, A., Alisa Banks – The Edge Series, Artists’ Book Reviews, Abecedarian Gallery, Spring 2013

  • Litts, D., Pyramid Atlantic Books Arts Fair Tour, Smithsonian Libraries, December 28, 2012

  • Kelley, D., Turning the page: Altered States takes an age-old object—the book—in bold new directions, Las Vegas Sun, Nov 4, 2009

  • Highlights of the Year in Retrospect, Special Collections/University Archives, UCF Libraries Annual Report. pg. 49, 2008-2009

 

Education

MFA, Art, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX

B.S., Medical Technology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK