Alice Aycock began her artistic career in the early 1970s within the land art movement. She gained international recognition through her participation in the 6th edition of documenta in 1977. Drawing inspiration from engineering and scientific disciplines such as cybernetics, (meta)physics, phenomenology, and computer programming, she uses high-tech materials to create her large-scale architectural sculptures.

Alice Aycock studied at Douglass College in New Jersey and obtained her Master of Arts in 1971 from Hunter College where she studied under Robert Morris. Her work has been presented in exhibitions all over the world, including solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, as well as comprehensive European museum retrospectives. Major group exhibitions include the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, two editions of documenta in Kassel and three Venice Biennales. Aycock’s works can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Storm King Art Center in New York, the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, Kunstmuseum Basel, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., Louisiana Museum in Humlebæk, Sprengel Museum in Hannover, the Australian National Gallery, among several others. Aycock has held several teaching positions at national and international academic institutions. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including Americans for the Arts Public Art Award, Anonymous Was a Woman Award, International Association of Art Critics Award, and the Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award from the International Sculpture Center. Aycock has been on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts in New York since 1991.

Alice Aycock was artist of the year 2020 and her work Hoop-La is the first sculpture acquired by the Princess Estelle Cultural Foundation thanks to gifts from the Patrons of PREKS. It was part of the artist’s first solo exhibition in Scandinavia, Turbulence the same year on Royal Djurgården.