Alice Hargrave, a photo based artist, incorporates sound, video, and photographic imagery within layered site specific installations addressing impermanence: environmental insecurity, habitat loss, and species extinctions. Recently, The Canary in the Lake, exhibition and monograph, revisualizes climate related data from lakes on all seven continents.  In 2023, Hargrave was selected to create original artwork for Chicago’s esteemed public art program through the CTA. 

Hargrave collaborated with The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, to create her project Last Calls, portraits of threatened birds using sound wave patterns of their vocalizations in the wild. Last Calls is widely exhibited, internationally in Lianzhou, China, and won a 2020 Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Grant, and the 2019 finalist award. The bird call patterns are translated into “Haute Couture” garments by Dovima Paris where profits directly benefit the birds. Paradise Wavering, Hargrave’s monograph (Daylight 2016) and extensive solo exhibition traveled to multiple venues across the United States. 

Hargrave is included in several permanent collections and has been awarded with Artist Residencies in The Florida Keys, Montana, Vermont, Wisconsin, and a fellowship at Ragdale. She is pursuing conservation work and climate activism through her artwork — putting the work to work is her modus operandi.