Brenna Youngblood

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Brenna Youngblood
Born1979 (age 4445)
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Known forPhotographic collage, sculpture, and painting

Brenna Youngblood (born 1979) is an American artist based in Los Angeles who is known for creating photographic collages, sculpture, and paintings. [1] [2] Her work explores issues of African-American identity and representation. [3]

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Education

Youngblood received a BFA from the California State University, Long Beach in 2002 and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2006. [4] She studied under Todd Gray, Catherine Opie, James welling and Larry Pittman.

Work

Youngblood's work often references historically significant moments and organizations in African-American history such as her 2017 sculpture M.I.A. which "refers to the Montgomery Improvement Association, a group co-organized by Martin Luther King, Jr. to guide the Montgomery bus boycott protest in 1955". [5]

Youngblood has held 21 solo exhibitions from 2006 to 2021. Some of Youngblood's first solo exhibits (2007 & 2008) were at the Margo Leavin [Gallery]. [6] [7] Susanne Vielmetter (2006) and Tilton Gallery (2010). She has also been a part of 96 group exhibitions from 2004 to 2023. Many of Youngblood's exhibitions have been shown largely in Los Angeles and New York City. She is represented by Roberts Projects, Tilton Gallery and Galerie Nathalie Obadia. Her work is included in the collections of the Seattle Art Museum, [8] Los Angeles Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Hammer Museum, The Studio Museum of Harlem, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Pomona College Museum of Art, Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, Kadist Foundation, Eileen Harris Norton, Creative Artists Agency, The Blake Byrne Collection, Art, Design, and Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara. She was included in the 2019 traveling exhibition Young, Gifted, and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art. [9]

Awards

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