CV
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
SCAFFOLD: Equity of Treatment, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, NJ
SCAFFOLD: Equity of Treatment, Adelphi University, NY
2017
Stair-Gazing: Élan Cadiz, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, NJ
EXHIBITIONS
2021
At Home, Living with Art Salon, Harlem, NYC
Giving Light: An Art Antidote to Gun Violence, Bronx Art Space, NYC
Love This Time, The Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership/ FOKUS, NYC
Altered Grain, Stay Home Gallery, Paris, TN
2020
Form, Paper, Scissors exhibit, Living with Art Salon, Harlem, NYC
Styling: Black Expression, Rebellion and Joy Through Fashion, Nordstrom, NYC
Brooklyn Utopias: 2020, Old Stone House & Washington Park, NYC
2019
Who Do You Say You Are?, Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden, NYC
Harlem Perspectives II, Faction Art Project, Gallery 8, NYC
2018
100 Works, Electropositive, Brooklyn, NYC
LOCATIONS: NYC MFA Exhibition at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
Harlem Havana 2018, Mural Pavilion in Harlem Hospital, NYC, NY
Global Reflections, Interchurch Center, NYC, NY
Let Me Reintroduce Myself, Cigar Factory, LIC, NY
In Pursuit of Freedom Now! Weeksville Heritage Center, NYC, NY
Tactics, Works, Terms, Forms, Statements, SVA Gallery, NYC, NY
NSK State Reserve: Crisis Currency, Burren College of Art, Ireland
2017
Spirit of Community: Art of Harlem, NYC, NY
Unicode, SVA Flatiron Gallery, NYC, NY
Art & Design Alumni Show 2017, John B. Kenny Gallery, NYC, NY
uptown: nasty women/bad hombres, El Museo del Barrio, NYC, NY
Woe-nderland exhibit, Aloft Hotel Harlem, Art in FLUX, NYC, NY
REFRESH, Rush Art Galleries, Art in FLUX, Chelsea, NY
1st Black History Month Student Exhibition, SVA Student Center, Chelsea, NY
harlem is… DANCE, co-curated with Community Works NYC, NY
2016
UBUNTU, La Maison d’Art NY, NY
Who’s Harlem/Whose Harlem Exhibition, La Maison d’Art NY, NY
2015
Juxtaposition, Harlem State Building Gallery - City Hall Rotunda in Mt. Vernon, N. Y. at
1 Roosevelt Ave. Mt Vernon NY
2014
if you build it, No Longer Empty, NYC, NY
Newark Black Oral History Project, Video installation, Gallery Affero, NJ
2013
Joining Forces: Living Art on the Hill, City College Arts Exhibit, NYC, NY
AWARDS
2020 Moth StorySLAM Champion
2018 Paula Rhodes Memorial Award, SVA
2016-17 Martha Trevor Award, Worldstudio AIGA Scholarship Program
2016-2018 School of Visual Arts Merit Scholarship
2015 The Power of ART 2015
2003 & 2004 Citations of Honor for Art by Queens Borough President, Helen M. Marshall
PUBLICATIONS
Shelter in Place Artist Mothers Work, by Tulika Ladsariya, Angela Lopez
Affluent Society, Human Stories: Elan Cadiz
New American Paintings, No.146, Northeast issue, juried by Jerry Saltz
VOGUE
Family Furniture: Meet the Artist Turning Her Parents and Grandparents Into Chairs
JANUARY 18, 2019 2:35pm by MARLEY MARIUS
FOKUS Insight Magazine - Play Issue , pages 16 - 20
Insight: Symbols Issue , pages 28 - 29
STUDIO: THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM MAGAZINE
Winter/Spring 2015, Summer/Fall 2014, Winter/Spring 2014, Summer/Fall 2013, Summer/Fall 2012, Summer/Fall 2011
Homegirls Make Some Noise: Hip Hop Feminism Anthology, Edited by Gwendolyn D. Pough
COMMISSIONS
The Harlem Wanishi Sukkah, Commissioned by JCC Harlem in collaboration with Art In FLUX, NYC
First Lady's Luncheon Flowers, Commissioned by Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
RESIDENCIES
Sustainable Arts Foundation AIRspace Parent Artist Residency at Abrons Art Center, 7/2019 - 8/2019
THINK/CREATE/SHARE Lab, BxArtsFactory, 5/2019 - 6/2019
Artist/Art Educator for a teen program. I assisted participants with art making for their portfolios and culminating exhibition.
Community Works NYC, 2016 - 2018
Guest curated 5 exhibits
Weeksville Heritage Center, 4/2015 - 7/2015
Collage and Conversations: Three month residency with Hugh Gilroy Senior Center.
HARLEM ARTS FESTIVAL, Summer 2016
Participated in three group art exhibitions.
Studio Museum in Harlem, 2009 - 15
Art Educator for the Studio Museum in Harlem and taught students in Thurgood Marshall Lower Academy, Dorothy Day Early Childhood Center and the Association to Benefit Children. I was the Family Programs Coordinator 2011-2015.
No Longer Empty, if you build it exhibition, June and August 2014
Art Educator of 2 Family Workshops
FAA Illinois University, Micro-Artist Residency, June 2014
A week long artist residency in Champaigne/Urbana, Illinois
EDUCATION
MFA Fine Arts, School of Visual Art, NY, 2018
BA Studio Art, City College of New York, 2008
Fashion Institute of Technology, NY, 1999
