Résumé / CV

Cirriculum Vitae

CV can be downloaded here in PDF.

Gallery representation: Emerson Dorsch Gallery (Miami, Florida)

EXHIBITION RECORD – SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 “Alosúgbe: a journey across time,” The Studios of Key West, Key West, FL

2019 “Alosúgbe: a journey across time,” Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL

2019 “Floridian Lacunae,” The Art and Culture Center/Hollywood, Hollywood, FL

2018 “Constellations: Deep Mapping Miami’s Past, Present, and Future,” a guided walk led by Fereshteh Toosi, Onajide Shabaka, Creative Time Summit Miami 2018

2016 “Antillean Lacunae: a litany of the botanical,” Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance, Miami, FL

2015 “Nierika, Pasajes y Entradas,” Under the Bridge, N. Miami, FL

2015 “Demarcations,” Project Row Houses, Houston, TX

2014 “Live it Up,” Bakehouse Art Complex & Guinness, Miami, FL

2012 “Zeichnangen und Wandabjekte,” Galerie Schuster, Potsdam, Germany

2012 “Onajide Shabaka,” Galerie Schuster Miami, Miami, FL

2012 “Mangrove Mud Womp,” Second Avenue Studio, Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale, FL

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 “Imagine: An Anthology of Black Thoughts,” Spinello Projects, Miami, FL

2020 “Why Shouldn’t We Talk About These Things at the Table?: A Community Based Conservation with South Florida Artists,” Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

2020 A.I.M. Biennial, Miami, FL

2019 “Notices in a Mutable Terrain,” Fundacion Pablo Atchugarry, Miami, FL

2019 “Concrete Jungle: Narrative of Presence,” Bridge Red Studios, N. Miami, FL

2019 “Reconstructing Identity,” Museum of Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora, Miami, FL

2019 “The Other Half of the Sky,” Girls’ Club Collection, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

2019 “Spheres of Meaning: An Exhibition of Artists’ Books,” Frost Art Museum FIU

2019 Round 49: “penumbras: sacred geometries” Project Row Houses, Houston, TX

2018 PRIZM ART FAIR 2018 – “transceivers: channels, outlets and forces”

2018 “paradise lost?: alchemy of the everyday,” Cindy Rucker Gallery, NY, NY

2018 “Because the Dawn Breaks,” Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI

2018 “Monarchs: Brown & Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly,” Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL

2018 “the past is more infinite than the future,” Under the Bridge Art Space, North Miami, FL

2018 “Voyaging Towards the Future,” Edna Manley College of the Arts, Kingston, Jamaica

2017 “Nature on the Edge of Urban,” in association with Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL

2017 “Sunrise, Sunset,” Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL

2017 “NATURE/NURTURE,” Salisbury University Galleries, Salisbury, MD

2016 “indivisible: spirits in the material world,” Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL

2016 “transphysics : istwa, landscapes, paisajes,” Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL

2016 “Florida Dreaming,” Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

2016 “65th Annual All Florida Exhibition,” Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL

2016 “SWEAT Broadsheet Collaboration,” The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY

2016 “move somethin: metaphysics of time and space,” Under the Bridge, N. Miami, FL

2016 “Intersections,” Deering Estate, Miami, FL

2015 “Nocturnes V: The Second Life of Trees,” Projects FATVillage, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

2015 “inscribing: meditations on time and space,” Red Bridge Studios, N. Miami, FL

2015 “Downtown Miami:  The Ground Beneath Our Feet,” MDC Museum of Art + Design, Miami, FL

COLLECTIONS

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL

Shoreline School District, Seattle, WA

Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood, WA

Sequim School District, Sequim, WA

Village of Arts & Humanities, Philadelphia, PA

Museum of Contemporary Art, N. Miami, FL

Girls’ Club Collection, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Mosquera Family Art Collection, Coral Gables, FL

Miami Dade College, Museum of Art + Design, FL

SELECTED AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS

2020 – AIRIE Everglades Artist Residency, Everglades National Park, FL

2020 – IS Projects Bookmaking Residency

2019 – Locust Projects Wavemaker Grant

2018 – Oolite Arts The Ellies Grant

2018 – Locust Projects Wavemaker Grant

2017 – African Rice Research Residency, Paramaribo, Suriname

2017 – International Cultural Exchange, Guadeloupe, French Antilles

2016 – International Cultural Exchange, Suriname

2015 – AIRIE Everglades Artist Residency, Everglades National Park, FL

2015 – Project Row Houses, Visiting Artist, Houston, TX

2014 – DVCAI Artist Residency, Mexico

2012 – Trading Places residency, Museum of Contemporary Art, N. Miami, FL

2012 – Creative Investment Grant, Broward County, FL

REVIEWS/ARTICLES

“Bringing the Outdoors in,” Indulge Magazine, Dec., 2014/Jan., 2015

Carlos Suarez de Jesus, “‘Dirt Yuta Suelo Udongo Tè’ : Onajide Shabaka’s Art Exhibit About the Most Primordial of Materials,” Miami New Times, June, 2013

Anne Tschida “Building Bridges in North Miami,” Biscayne Times newspaper, 6 June, 2012

Anne Tschida, “Art, through the looking glass,” Knight Arts Foundation Blog, 25 May, 2012

VISITING ARTIST LECTURES, PERFORMANCES, ETC.

2018 “Antillean Lacunae” NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL

2017 “Suriname Rice slide lecture, Anne Kolb Nature Center, Hollywood, FL

2017 “Seed Journeys” slide lecture, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD

2015 Guest Lecturer, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX

2014 Arturo Mosquera Art Collection

2014 “Between the River and Lagoon,” artist-in-residence project, Ft. Pierce, FL

2013 “Black Contemporaries Panel,” Museum of Contemporary Art, N. Miami, FL

2012 Artist-in-residence, Anne Kolb Nature Center, Hollywood, FL

2010 “Global Caribbean(s): Interrogating the Politics of Location in Caribbean Literature and Culture,” The University of Miami, Coral Gables – March 2010 Research Presentation: “African American Burial Shrines of Florida.”

CATALOGS

2016 “ Dirt Yuta Suelo Udongo Te,” Onajide Shabaka (curator)

2015 “Lyrical Witness,” Onajide Shabaka (author)

EDUCATION

      • Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, Vermont, MFA in Visual Art
      • Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, BFA in Photography
      • Pacific Fashion Institute, San Francisco, California
      • California College of the Arts, Oakland, California
      • Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
      • Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington, California