Alison Booth is a Taiwanese-American visual artist and teacher. She was born and raised in New York City. Alison’s mother is a NYC-based ceramicist, painter, and print-maker. She immigrated to the United States from Taiwan to study at the Fashion Institute of Technology; upon graduating, she began her career as a pattern-maker and eventually developed her own clothing line as a fashion designer. Alison’s father’s background is in poetry and the literary arts. For that reason, she had an early start in appreciating the world from a poetic perspective.

As a child, Alison would compulsively play and fantasize through narratives she created, using whatever media she found at hand. Whether she was sculpting with chewing gum pulled from under tables while her parents weren’t watching or utilizing more conventional art-making materials provided to keep her occupied and out of trouble, Alison has always loved the process of manipulation and transformation of any material she encountered. Although she has made her share of nosebleed Kleenex-art, Alison has also had continuous formal art-training since elementary school.

The foundation of Alison’s work today continues to be about searching for her own narrative and storytelling. Her work is an expression of personal experience and often inspired by overlooked subjects, especially in nature. Nostalgia, play, observation, and finding a narrative (often purely by chance) are key elements in the process, within which the work manifests itself. Alison has worked as an adjunct professor of visual art at Manhattanville College and currently teaches art at the secondary level in a public school in New York’s Mid-Hudson Valley. Alison lives in Sherman, Connecticut with her partner, Chris.