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SELECTED EXHIBITION RECORD

Solo and Group

2023 Lobster Club (Mexico City, MX)

2023 Soft Power, Tacoma Art Museum (Tacoma, WA)

2023 XO Summer Exhibition, Coliseum Theatre (Seattle, WA)

2023 Gathering, The Corner Gallery (Andes, NY)

2023 Neddy Award 25 Anniversary Exhibition, Museum of History and Industry (Seattle, WA)

2022 Paradox of Harmonix, MOCAD (Detroit, MI)

2021 Artifacts of the Horizon, Part II: Setting into Space, Patel Brown Gallery (Toronto, ON, CAN)

2020 Glasgow Biennial (Glasgow, Scotland)

2019 Manifest Destiny, Library Street Collective (Detroit, MI)

2019 Video in America, Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY)

2019 New Age, New Age: Strategies for Survival, DePaul Art Museum (Chicago, Il) 2019 Medicine for a Nightmare, collaborator, Mercer Union, The Audain Gallery at SFU, Esker Foundation (Toronto, ON, Vancouver, BC, Calgary, ALB)

2018 Believe, MOCA Toronto (Toronto, ON, CAN)

2018 All Power; a Visual Legacy of the Black Panther Party, Central Washington University (Ellensburg, WA)

2018 All Power; a Visual Legacy of the Black Panther Party, PCNW (Seattle, WA)

2018 AIPAD (New York, NY)

2017 Topophilia, MEETINGS Festival (Nees, Denmark)

2016 To: Seattle | Subject: Personal, Frye Art Musuem (Seattle, WA)

2016 Neddy Award 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Pivot Art Gallery (Seattle, WA)

2016 Plein Air (Seattle, WA)

2016 Aichi Triennale (Toyohashi, Japan)

2014 Your Feast Has Ended, Frye Art Museum (Seattle, WA)

2013 Moment Magnitude, Frye Art Museum (Seattle, WA)

2012-2014 Blues As Smoke, MOCA (Los Angeles, CA), The Whitney Museum (New York, NY), The Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH)

2012 Onn/Of Festival (Seattle, WA)

2012 Traditions, M. Rosetta Hunter Art Gallery (Seattle, WA)

2011 Fader Magazine One Step Beyond Series, Museum of Natural History (New York, NY)

2010 To Serve and Protect, Pun(c)tuation Gallery (Seattle, WA)

2008 Nocturne, Artistic Jeanius (Chicago, IL) solo show, Transitions, Tall Grass Gallery (Chicago, IL)

2007 Second Anniversary, Gallery Guichard (Chicago, IL)

2006 First Anniversary, Gallery Guichard (Chicago, IL)

2005 – 2006 Festival Sundiata Black Palette Exhibition (Seattle, WA)

2004 Here Amongst Other Places, The Auto Gallery of Seattle (Seattle, WA)

Curatorial
2023 Langham hotel Exterior Mural Project (Seattle, WA)

2019-2022 Eaton Seattle Exterior Mural Project (Seattle, WA)

2016 Young Blood: Noah Davis, Kahlil Joseph, The Underground Museum, Frye Art Museum (Seattle, WA)

2011 The Sign Show – Jesse Brown, Todd Lown, Zack Rockstead and Kevin Drake pun(c)tuation (Seattle, WA)

2011 A Face In Time – Mandilla aka Mandy Blouin pun(c)tuation (Seattle, WA)

2011 Ursa Major and the Slow Decline – Kat Larson pun(c)tuation (Seattle, WA)

2011 ICONS: Revelations to Revolutions - Keith Murakata (pun(c)tuation (Seattle, WA) 2010 Catch and Release - No Touching Ground pun(c)tuation (Seattle, WA)

FILM & VIDEO

Written & Directed

2024 “Alé” debut feature (experiemental tour film, in post production)

2023 “The District” animated short film (unreleased)

2023 Untitled and unreleased short film for Lavarr the Starr

2019 “Black (W)Hole”, short film co-conceived and co-directed w Nep Sidhu

2017 “When Cats Claw”, unreleased music video for Shabazz Palaces

2016 "Danse de la Cordyceps", independent short film

2015 “Earthee” Official music video THEESatisfaction

2015 “Corner Bop” Official Music Porter Ray

2014 "Sacred", independent short film

2013 "Untold Story", short film with Militia Mali Mob

2013 "Ode to Octavia part 12: (Sparkles) Recollections of the Wraith", short film with The Black Constellation (Shabazz Palaces)

2011 "Are You…Can You…Were You…(Felt)?", Official video/short film with Shabazz Palaces

Art Direction, Production Design and Costuming

2019 “Black (W)Hole”, short film co-lead with Nep Sidhu

2015 “Earthee” Official Music Video with THEESatisfaction

2014 "Sacred", independent short film, debut during Your Feast Has Ended, Frye Art Museum (Seattle, WA)

2013 "Ode to Octavia part 12: (Sparkles) Recollections of the Wraith", short film with The Black Constellation (Shabazz Palaces)

2011 "Are You…Can You…Were You…(Felt)?", Official Music Video with Shabazz Palaces, Sub Pop, "Black Up", short film with Shabazz Palaces, Kahlil Joseph, What Matters Most

2010 "100% Off: A Recession Era Romance", feature-length independent film by Shaun Scott

2010 short film for Luke Meier, Vans Syndicate, directed by Kahlil Joseph produced by What Matters Most

2009 "Belhaven Meridian", music video with Shabazz Palaces directed by Kahlil Joseph produced by What Matters Most

PUBLIC COMMISIONS

Washington State Convention Center Addition commissioned artist for permanent large scale public work on 9th Ave and Pike St., (Seattle, WA), 2018 to be installed Spring 2023

PUBLICATIONS, SELECT WRITING & EDITORIAL PROJECTS

Writer
In(To) The Realm Of Lightening - Rajni Perera and Nep Sidhu limited edition exhibition risograph, 2021
Quazarz Vs.the Jealous Machines Visualbum (graphic novel), Sub Pop and Fantagraphics, 2017

Co-editor and contributing essayist
Young Blood: Noah Davis, Kahlil Joseph and The Underground Museum, exhibition catalog published by the Frye Art Museum 2016.

Wall text and promotional materials for exhibitions
Young Blood: Noah Davis, Kahlil Joseph, The Underground Museum, Frye Art Museum, 2016
Your Feast Has Ended, Frye Art Museum, 2014
The Unicorn Incorporated, Frye Art Museum, 2014
Seen, Photographic Center Northwest, 2013

Content Development, Editing & Copywriting
Young Blood: Noah Davis, Kahlil Joseph and The Underground Museum, exhibition catalog published by the Frye Art Museum 2016
The Unicorn Incorporated: Curtis R. Barnes exhibition catalog published by the Frye Art Museum, 2014

PERFORMANCE

2013 "Ode to Octavia part 13: A Sonic and Kinetic Ritual" with The Black Constellation for Moment Magnitude at Frye Art Museum (Seattle, WA)

2011 Fader Magazine, One Step Beyond Series, performance by Shabazz Palaces and THEESatisfaction, Museum of Natural History (New York, NY)

2010 The Stranger Genius Awards, onstage performance by Shabazz Palaces, THEESatisfaction

SELECT PUBLIC SPEAKING & PODCASTS

2022 Fresh off The Spaceship Podcast ep. 4 for KEXP.org

2020 What Does the Afro Future Say? a discussion with Ingrid LaFleur

2020 Pyramids as Portals - Evergreen Art Lecture Series, Evergreen University Olympia, WA, USA

2019 Medicine in the Bark Teeth That Leaves a Mark with Nep Sidhu and Nicholas Galanin, Esker Foundation, Calgary, AL, CAN

2019 Manifest Destiny Panel, Shinola Hotel Detroit, Mi, USA

2019 In Conversation with Nep Sidhu, Audain Gallery, SFU

2018 Panelist, KEXP, “SUBPop 30th Anniversary: Black Constellation”

2017 Panelist, Framer Framed, “Pedagogies of the Opaque (I): Black Schools: Learning for and by Black Futures” curated by Amal Alhaag and Maria Guggenbichler (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

2017 Discussant, Primary Colours/Couleurs Primaires Gathering, “Traditional is Contemporary is Traditional is…” (Victoria, BC, Canada)

2016 Panelist, Frye Art Museum “Seeing Art: A Multidisciplinary, Critical Discourse On Twenty-First Century Art Practice” in connection with exhibition To: Seattle | Subject: Personal (Seattle, WA)

2016 Guest lecturer Kelowna College (Kelowna, Canada)

2016 Panelist for “The Subversive Art of Kehinde Wiley” a program in connection with the Seattle Art Museum exhibition The New Republic (Seattle, WA)

2016 Panelist for discussion of Zun Lee: Fade Resistance An Exhibition of Found Polaroids, Wedge Curatorial Projects (Toronto, Canada)

2015 Panelist, Conference on Afrofuturism at the New School (New York, NY)

2013 Olson Kundig Spreakers Series (Seattle, WA)

2014 Panelist, “Resurgence of the shaMEN” a program in connection with exhibition Your Feast Has Ended, Frye Art Museum (Seattle, WA)

AWARDS, APPOINTMENTS, PUBLIC COMMISIONS

2018 Washington State Convention Center Addition commissioned artist

2018 Selection Committee for Fremont Ship Canal, Seattle, WA, USA

2016 Sue MacMillan artist assistant awardee (Seattle University)

2014 Recipient of the Neddy at Cornish award in the Open Medium category

2013 Selection Committee for James/4th Ave/Cherry Mural Seattle, WA, USA

RESIDENCIES

2019 Beyond Braiding Residency, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN

2018 Hangar Residency, Lisbon, Portugal

2017 Indigenous Arts Residency University of British Columbia, Kelowna, British Columbia, CAN

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