Education
2022 MFA Tulane University. New Orleans, LA
2019 BIS University of Missouri St. Louis. St. Louis, MO.
Teaching Appointments
2022 - Present Visiting Assistant Professor Tulane University
2021 - 2022 Instructor of Record Tulane University
Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions
2024
Kinloch ( A One Piece Viewing), Shed Gallery. Cleveland, OH
2023
Violet Marrow, Ki Smith Gallery, New York, NY (Two-Person with Ambrose Rhapsody Murray)
Close your eyes, and remember. Sibyl Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2022. Somewhere above the Earth and beneath God (I found home.) Carrol Gallery. New Orleans, LA.
2019 Chantillier Pop-Up, Old No. 77 Arts Hotel. New Orleans, LA.
2018. A Free Space Between Intersections, Erica Popp Gallery. St. Louis, MO.
Group Exhibitions
2024.
There’s No Telling Time, Resig and Taylor. Los Angeles, CA
The Contemporary South, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Gestures of Refusal: Black Photography and Visual Culture, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
The Culture: Hip-hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, GER
2023.
The Culture: Hip-hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis. MO
Butter: A Fine Art Fair, Indianapolis, IN
IN THE SPIRIT OF BLACK, Ashe Cultural Arts Center. New Orleans, LA.
The Culture: Hip-hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, MD.
feel good now and later, Pratt MWP. Utica, NY.
The Promised Land, Southside Community Arts Center. Chicago, IL
2022.
Here's What I Was Thinking, Sibyl Gallery. New Orleans, LA.
Documents: Contemporary Lens-Based Art, Gallery 210, St. Louis, MO.
Like Wildflowers, NYC Culture Club, New York City, NY.
2021.
In The City: Memories of Black Presence, Griot Museums of African American History, St. Louis, MO.
Dreamscapes: Imagings of a Black Pastoral, Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago, IL
2020.
Art Is Revolution, RYOT/Huffpost AR Virtual Exhibition
That which brought you here, will take you out, Pearl Conard Gallery at Ohio State. Mansfield, OH.
2019.
Art Is Labor, Arcade Contemporary Arts Projects. St. Louis, MO.
Exposure 20: Safe Spaces, UMSL Gallery 210, St. Louis, MO.
Art + Landscape STL, GCAAD. Granite City, IL.
Winter Exhibition, Angad Arts Hotel. St. Louis, MO.
2018.
Alumni Invitational, STLCC Flo Valley Contemporary Gallery. St. Louis, MO.
Cry of Victory and Short Walks to Freedom, projects+gallery. St. Louis, MO.
Urban Bridge, UMSL Gallery 210. St. Louis, MO.
2016.
Varsity Art, Art STL. St. Louis, MO.
Best of Collegiate Photography, Photographer’s Forum.
2015.
Vibez, 2720. St. Louis, MO.
Advanced Student Exhibition, STLCC Flo Valley Contemporary Gallery. Ferguson, MO.
Selected Curatorial & Programming
2024
I’ve Been Here Before: Contemporary acts of returning and the photograph as memory
Sibyl Gallery. New Orleans, LA
2021
Artists in the Room with Jordan Weber | AIR + Pulitzer Arts Foundation Collaboration
2019
State of the Black Arts | Artists in the Room | St. Louis, MO
Collector’s Chat with Adrienne Davis | Artists in the Room
2018
Artists in the Room with T.J. Dedeaux- Norris | Artists in the Room | St. Louis, MO
Artists in the Room with Sanford Biggers | Artists in the Room | St. Louis, MO
Artists in the Room with Larry Ossei-Mensah | Artists in the Room | St. Louis, MO
2017
Artists in the Room with Mickalene Thomas | Artists in the Room | St. Louis, MO
Residencies & Fellowships
2024
ACRE Artist in Residence, Steuben, Wisconsin
2021
Tulane Graduate Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2020.
Mellon Graduate Community-Engaged Fellowship. Tulane University New Orleans, LA
Commonwealth: In the City Visual Arts Fellowship. Harvard University Cambridge, MA.
2019.
Paul Artspace Facilitator Fellowship Florissant, MO.
Old No. 77 Arts Hotel Artist in Residence New Orleans, LA.
2018.
Paul Artspace Artist in Residence Florissant, MO.
Public Lectures
2022
Somewhere above the Earth and Beneath God (I found home). Tulane University. New Orleans, LA
2021
Intimate Exposures: Shabez Jamal in conversation with Derrick Woods-Morrow. Concerned Black Image-Makers, Chicago, IL.
(Virtual talk)
For Freedoms: Shabez Jamal and Java Jones in Conversation. For Freedoms. New York City, NY.
(Virtual talk)
Awards
2022
The Divided City: Urban Humanities Community Research Grant
2021
SLA Summer Graduate Research and Write-Up Award Tulane University
Advanced Student Exhibition, STLCC Flo Valley Contemporary Gallery. Ferguson, MO.
2019
St. Louis Community College Student Government Association Award of Excellence in Art
St. Louis Black Pride Excellence in Art
Luminary Arts Future Funds Grant
2016.
Art St. Louis Award of Excellence, Varsity Art
St. Louis Community College Student Government Association Award of Excellence in Art
Publications & Press
2023
Catalog: The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century
Tempest Hazel, On Collaborative Recomposition and Shabez Jamal As Archive, Sixty Inches From Center
Emily Ferranto, The Things We Buried: Jon Gott and Shabez Jamal in New Orleans, New Orleans Review
2022
Isra Rene, The Poetry of Promise, The Ruckus Journal
2021
Jessica Baran, Interview with Shabez Jamal for the Strange Fire Collective
2020
Tiffany E Barber and Jerome Dent, Countering Jaggedness: Shabez Jamal and New Black Surrealisms
Black Perspectives
2019
Lauren Smith, Five Local Artists Who Celebrate the Human Form. Alive Magazine
2018.
Catalog: Cry of Victory and Short Walks to Freedom
James McAnally, A Radical Black Art Renaissance Is Reshaping A Fractured St. Louis. Vice Magazine.
John Blaire. A Free Space Between Intersections (Review), All the Art
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B. 1992 ST. LOUIS, MO
NEW ORLEANS, LA
SHABEZ JAMAL