Torkwase Dyson

Torkwase Dyson is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York, United States.[1][2][3][4][5] Her work has been exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem,[6] the Whitney Museum of American Art,[7] the Corcoran College of Art and Design, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art. She describes the themes of her work as "architecture, infrastructure, environmental justice, and abstract drawing."[8] In 1999 she received a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and her MFA from Yale School of Art in painting/printmaking in 2003.[1] In 2016, Dyson was elected to the board of the Architectural League of New York as Vice President of Visual Arts.[9] In 2017, she was on the faculty of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.[10] She is a visiting critic at Yale School of Art.[1]

Torkwase Dyson
Born
Chicago, Illinois
NationalityAmerican
EducationYale University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Tougaloo College
Known forPainting, printmaking, conceptual art
AwardsJoan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors award, Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists

Projects

Studio South Zero

Studio South Zero (SSZ) is a solar-powered, mobil art studio Dyson uses in her installations.[11]

Conditions of Fresh Water

Conditions of Fresh Water (2015-2017) is a project about "black Southern geography and the struggle for environmental justice."[12][13]

The Wynter-Wells Drawing School for Environmental Justice

The 2018 Wynter-Wells Drawing School for Environmental Justice, named for Jamaican writer Sylvia Wynter and American civil rights leader Ida B. Wells, is a two-week series of classes, discussions, and experiments held at the Drawing Center.[14][15]

The Wynter-Wells School

In 2018, The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Arts presented an exhibition of Dyson's work building off of her two-week residency at the Drawing Center, Winter Term. The exhibition consisted of new site-specific drawings and a series of programming under the title The Wynter-Wells Drawing School for Environmental Liberation, as part of Dyson's pedagogical approach to art-making, consisting of a series of workshops, lectures, and an open studio where Dyson would actively produce and alter the work on view in front of the public.[16]

Exhibitions

2018
  • Graham Foundation, Wynter-Wells School, May 3–July 14[17]
  • Davidson Gallery, New York, NY, Dear Henry, March 15–May 5[15]
  • The Drawing Center, New York, NY, Black Compositional Thought and the Wynter-Well Drawing School for Environmental Justice, February 24–March 11[15][18]

2017

2016
  • Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA, Mine Mind, May 27–June 23[20]
  • Eyebeam, Brooklyn, NY, Unkeeping, March 9–April 12[21][22]
  • Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington DC, Illegal Abstraction, October 27, 2016 – January 27, 2017[23]

2014
  • Clark University, Schiltkamp Gallery, Worcester, MA Mine: Painting and Drawing October 1–October 31[24]

2008

2018

2017
  • ArtCenter / South Florida, Miami FL, On Documentary Abstraction, September 30, 2017 – January 2, 2018[26]
  • Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte NC, The Future is Abstract, January 28–July 8[27]
  • Koenig & Clinton, Brooklyn, NY, Lack of Location is My Location, November 3, 2017 – January 14, 2018[28][29]
  • Hemphill Fine Art, Washington, DC, 35 Days, June 24–August 11[30][31]
  • 3LD Art & Technology Center, New York, NY, Works on Water, June 5–30
  • Martos Gallery, New York, NY, Invisible Man, May 3–June 24[32][33]
  • Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY, Stack, May 11–June 17[34]
  • Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Dialogues, On Drawing, March 16–May 23[35]
  • Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY, x ≈ y: An Act of Translation[36]

2016
  • Duke University, Center for Documentary Studies, Durham NC, In Conditions of Freshwater, March 2–June 10[12][13]
  • PostMasters Gallery, New York, NY, Grey Scale, June 24–August 16[37]
  • Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY, The Block Party, July 14 – August

2015

2014

2011

2010
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 2010 Whitney Biennial Monastic Residency, May7–May 9[46]
  • Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA, Ephemerality, January 12–April 12[47]

2008
  • Flanders Art Gallery, Raleigh, NC, Spectrum-ed, June 1–July 1[48]
  • Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, VA, She's So Articulate
  • African American Museum, Dallas, TX, It Might Blow Up, But It Won't Go Pop

Select lectures and panels

2018

2017

2016

2015
  • University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Values of Color, February 20[64]

2014
  • Reed College, Portland, OR, Nothing Disappears: Site/Environment/Installation and the Re-alignments Happening in My Imagination, April 17[65]
  • Brown University, Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) Connections and Flows: Water, Energy and Digital Information in the Global South, Studio South Zero: Looking at Urban Ecological Aesthetics, June 19[66][67]

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