Torkwase Dyson | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | Yale University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Tougaloo College |
| Known for | Painting, printmaking, conceptual art |
| Awards | Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors award, Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists |
Torkwase Dyson (born 1973, Chicago, Illinois) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Beacon, New York, United States. [1] Dyson describes the themes of her work as "architecture, infrastructure, environmental justice, and abstract drawing." [2] Her work is informed by her own theory of Black Compositional Thought. This working term considers how spatial networks—paths, throughways, water, architecture, and geographies—are composed by Black bodies as a means of exploring potential networks for Black liberation. She is represented by Pace Gallery and Richard Gray Gallery. [3] [4]
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Dyson was born in Chicago, Illinois. She attended Tougaloo College where she earned degrees in sociology and social work. In 1999 she received a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. She received her MFA in painting/printmaking from Yale School of Art in 2003.
Studio South Zero (SSZ) was Dyson's mobile solar-powered art studio. [5] In 2016, Dyson and environmental social scientist Danielle Purifoy, traversed post-Bellum black communities in Alamance County, NC and Lowndes County, AL in Studio South Zero, collaborating with community members to create an assemblage of oral histories, artifacts, images, and materials to understand the traditions and nuances of black environmental, cultural, and economic placemaking. In 2017, this assemblage was exhibited in In Conditions of Fresh Water: An Artistic Exploration of Environmental Racism at Duke University Center for Documentary Studies. [6]
From February 24, 2018, to March 11, 2018, Dyson led a two-week series of classes, discussions, and experiments held at the Drawing Center. [7] Named the Wynter-Wells Drawing School for Environmental Justice after Jamaican writer Sylvia Wynter and American civil rights leader Ida B. Wells, "The School presented an experimental curriculum employing techniques culled from the visual arts as well as design theories of geography, infrastructure, engineering, and architecture to initiate dialogue about geography and spatiality in an era of global crisis due to human-induced climate change." [8]
From May 3, 2018, to July 28, 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. [9]
Dyson's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide. Her sculptures, paintings, drawings, and performances have been included in numerous solo exhibitions and installations at institutions, including Pace Gallery, [10] [11] Serpentine Galleries, [12] Hall Art Foundation, [13] New Orleans Museum of Art, [14] Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery at Columbia University, [15] The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, [16] Colby Museum of Art at Colby College, [17] Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery at Bennington College, [18] Rhona Hoffman Gallery, [19] Graham Foundation, [20] Davidson Contemporary, The Drawing Center, [21] Landmark Gallery at Texas Tech University, [22] Second Street Gallery, [23] Industry City Gallery/Eyebeam, [24] [25] Hemphill Fine Arts, [26] Schiltkamp Gallery at Clark University, [27] Meat Market Gallery, Ty Stokes Gallery, and Corcoran School of the Arts and Design.
Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Passerelle Centre d'art contemporain, Parrish Art Museum, [28] The Mississippi Museum of Art, [29] Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, [30] Gladstone Gallery, [31] Gracie Mansion Conservancy, Alexander Gray Associates, [32] California African American Museum, [33] Sharjah at United Arab Emirates, The Studio Museum in Harlem, [34] Socrates Sculpture Park, [35] Whitney Museum Museum of Art, [36] [37] Duke University Center for Documentary Studies, [38] [39] the Harvey B. Gantt Center [40] and more. [41]
In 2023, Torwase Dyson's work is being presented at the São Paulo Art Biennial, in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. [42] Their piece "Liquid a Place" [43] is also being exhibited in Tate Liverpool as part of the 2023 Liverpool Biennial "uMoya".
Dyson's work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Hall Art Foundation, The Long Museum, Mead Art Museum, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Smith College Museum of Art, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The Studio Museum in Harlem. [44]
In 2016, Dyson was elected to the board of the Architectural League of New York as Vice President of Visual Arts. [45] In 2019, Dyson was awarded the Studio Museum's Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize and the Anonymous Was a Woman award for painting. In addition to many other grants, fellowships and residencies, she has been the recipient of The Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant, Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists, Brooklyn Arts Council grant, Yale University Paul Harper Residency at Vermont Studio Center, Spelman College Art Fellowship, and Yaddo. [46]
In 2017, Dyson was on the faculty of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and has been a visiting critic at Yale School of Art. [47] In addition to being a guest lecturer, she has participated in a number of panel discussions, artists talks, readings and performance lectures in collaboration with Black environmentalists, artists, poets, architects, dancers, and musicians.
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