Alice Aycock has lived in New York City since 1968. She received a B.A. from Douglass College and an M.A. from Hunter College. She is represented by Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin. She has had solo exhibitions at Marlborough Gallery in 2017, 2020 and 2023, and she has had multiple solo exhibitions with Galerie Thomas Schulte, most recently in 2019. MIT Press published the artist’s first hardcover monograph, entitled Alice Aycock, Sculpture and Projects, authored by Robert Hobbs in 2005. Her works can be found in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Louis Vuitton Foundation, the LA County Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Sheldon Museum of Art, Storm King Art Center, and the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, Germany. She has had four major retrospectives. 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 new Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York coinciding with the Grey Art Gallery in New York City. The exhibition traveled to the AD&A Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. A fully illustrated catalogue accompanied the retrospective. The 1990 retrospective was organized by the Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, NY. The first was organized by the Wurttembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart in 1983 and traveled to Koln, Marl, Den Haag, and Luzern. 

Aycock's public sculptures can be found in many major cities in the U.S and around the world. Some of her public commissions have been sited at the East River Park Pavilion, New York City (1995/2014); San Francisco Public Library (1996), which required close collaboration with Pei Cobb Freed; Terminal One at JFK International Airport (1998/2013); GSA commission for the Fallon Building, Baltimore (2004); Downtown Nashville, Tennessee (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, Berlin. In 2016, she completed a large-scale outdoor public artwork in Coral Gables, FL and an entrance sculpture for the new MGM National Harbor, MD. She installed a sculpture for the lobby of 50 West, New York, NY in 2017. A Series of Whirlpool Field Manoeuvres for Pier 27, a permanent large-scale installation, was inaugurated on the Toronto waterfront in the fall of 2017, as well as an entry sculpture for the same complex at Pier 27 in 2021. In 2018, a sculpture was installed at the entrance to the new Capital One headquarters in McLean, VA. A sculpture was installed in 2019 at the Port Everglades Cruise Terminal and 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 from the Turbulence Series were installed in an outdoor solo exhibition at the Royal Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden. Most recently, an entry work to Des Moines International Airport entitled Liftoff (2022) and Devil Whirls (2023) for the McNay Art Museum were completed, as well as a permanent installation of Waltzing Matilda (2014) at the IQHQ RaDD development in San Diego (2024).