Alice Aycock has lived in New York City since 1968 and received a B.A. from Douglass College and an M.A. from Hunter College. She is represented by Marlborough Gallery, NY and Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin. A retrospective of works from 1971 through 2019 was exhibited at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany, in the summer of 2019. In 2013, a retrospective of her drawings and small sculptures was exhibited at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, coinciding with the Grey Art Gallery in NYC. A retrospective was held at Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY (1990) and a traveling retrospective was organized by the Württembergische Kunstverein in Stuttgart (1983). Her works can be found in numerous private and public collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C; the Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE; Storm King Art Center; and the Sprengel Museum.

Aycock’s public sculptures can be found in many major cities in the US, including East River Park Pavilion, NYC (1995/2014); San Francisco Public Library (1996); JFK International Airport, NY (1998/2013); Fallon Building, Baltimore, MD (2004); Nashville, TN (2008); and Washington Dulles International Airport (2012). In 2014, a series of seven sculptures were installed in New York City, entitled Park Avenue Paper Chase, in collaboration with Galerie Thomas Schulte. In 2016, she completed an entrance sculpture for MGM National Harbor, MD. A permanent large-scale installation was inaugurated at Pier 27 on the Toronto waterfront in 2017, as well as a second work there in 2021. An entry sculpture for the new Capital One headquarters was installed in McLean, VA in 2018. A sculpture was installed in 2019 at the Port Everglades Cruise Terminal as well as a work for NYU’s campus in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. In 2020, an outdoor work was installed for a residential complex in Jingu Gaien, Tokyo, Japan. In the summer of 2020, six large-scale sculptures were installed in an outdoor solo exhibition at the Royal Djurgården in Stockholm. Most recently in 2022, an entry work to Des Moines International Airport entitled Liftoff was completed.