DEBORAH CARROLL ANZINGER
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b. Kingston, Jamaica 1978


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

**SOLO EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS


2023   If we are here..., Visual Art Center, University of Texas, Austin (curated by Nicole Smythe-Johnson)

           Choreographies of the Impossible, 35th Bienal de São Paulo, A Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, SP (Curated by Diane Lima, Grada Kilomba, Hélio Menezes, Manuel Borja-Villel)

2021   TEXTURES: the history and art of Black hair, Kent State University Museum, Kent, OH (Curated by Joseph L. Underwood and Tameka Ellington)

           SHAPESHIFTERS: a film program for Black Refractions, Frye Art Museum (Curated by Black Cinema Collective)

2019   Deborah Anzinger: An Unlikely Birth, Institute of Contemporary Art,University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Curated by Daniella Rose King)**

           The Other Side of Now, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL (Curated by María Elena Ortiz and Marsha Pearce)

           Resisting Paradise, Pública, San Juan, Puerto Rico (Curated by Marina Reyes Franco)

2018   Erosion, Sargent's Daughters, NY**

           TAILBONE, 47 Canal gallery, New York, New York (Curated by Henry Murphy and Tenaya Izu)

2017   No Commission, The Dean Collection + Bacardi, Miami

           Full Service_________, Five Years, London

           Elaine, let's get the hell out of here, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, New York

           The Coverly Set, Sargent's Daughters, New York, New York

           Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica (Catalogue)**  

2016   The Observer and the Observed: Heino Schmid + Deborah Anzinger, National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau,The Bahamas

           Meatballs, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, Maine (Curated by Carl Ostendarp)

           Jamaican Pulse: Art and Politics from Jamaica and the Diaspora Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK (Catalogue)

2015   Field Notes: Extracts, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, Brooklyn, NY (Curated by Holly Bynoe)

           Freak Dancing, Popop, Nassau, The Bahamas  

           Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica  (Catalogue)

2014   FLOAT, Transformer, Washington, DC (Curated by Nicole Smythe-Johnson)

           After the Flood, Liquid Courage Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas (Curated by Holly Bynoe) 
  
2013   New Roots. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica**

           Mint Condition. Outer Space, Washington, DC

           Natural Histories. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

           iMotion. Delicious Spectacle, Washington, DC

2012   Transformer Auction. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

           One of Five. Delicious Spectacle, Washington, DC

           Nineteen Ways of Looking at a Painting. Porch Projects, Washington, DC (Curated by Mariah Johnson)

           Paint on Known. Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC

2011   Part and Parcel. The Fridge, Washington, DC

           New Beginnings. George Mason University, Arlington, VA (Curated by Lisa McCarthy)

           (In)Habit Artist Residency. Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Silver Spring, MD

2009   Findings. District of Columbia Arts Center (DCAC), Washington, DC (Curated by Blair Murphy)

           New Work. Arlington Arts Center (AAC), Arlington, VA

2008   The National Biennial. The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica (Catalogue)

           Civilians for Obama. Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC

           Sparkplug. DCAC, Washington, DC



BIBLIOGRAPHY
PRESS/PRINT MEDIA


2022   Artnet News, Simone Leigh's Assembly of Black Feminist Creativity in Venice Left Me in Awe

2020   Art Papers, Deborah Anzinger: An Unlikely Birth, Heather Holmes

2019   Bomb Magazine, Labor and Nature: Deborah Anzinger Interviewed by Jareh Das

2019   Frieze, The Revolutionary Potential of a 'Caribbean Future'

2017   The Nassau Guardian, “To be mesmerised”

2017   The New Yorker, “Elaine, let's get the hell out of here”

2017   Artforum, Critic's Pick: “Elaine, let's get the hell out of herel”

2017   BLOUIN ARTINFO, “2017 Group Show at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York”

2017   Miami Rail, “2017 Jamaica Biennial”

2017   Huffington Post, Taking Stock of the Jamaica Biennial 2017

2017   Jamaica Observer, "Grange announces expanded Arts in the Park programme"

2017   Frieze, City Report: Postcard from Jamaica

2017   Jamaica Gleaner, The Jamaica Biennial Returns This Weekend

2017   Jamaica Observer, Big Biennial begins on Sunday

2015   New York Times, "Review: 'Field Notes';

2015   Contemporary And, "Field Notes: Extracts"

2015   ARC Magazine, "The Provisional is the political"

2015   Jamaica Gleaner, "Jamaica Biennial strikes a creative crescendo "

2015   Jamaica Observer, "Jamaica Biennial 2014... A Transitional Phase in The Process Of Change"

2015   Caribbean Beat, "Jamaican Art: Open House"

2015   ARC Magazine, "11 Exciting Artists to Watch in 2015"

2014   Washington Post, "Galleries: 'Anything Sacred', 'Float', 'Friends with Benefits', 'Between Us'"

2014   East City Art, "Transformer Presents Float"

2014   Jamaica Observer, "Art's the Way"

2013   Jamaica Gleaner, "Rooted Outside Tradition"


PERIODICALS

McKee, CC, Staging Mirrors: Deborah Anzinger's Eco-aesthetic Syntax of Dehiscent Being, liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 50 —83.

Terri Francis,The Distraction of Symbolism, 15.4, ASAP/Journal, September 2020

Deborah Anzinger, "A piercing void where we meet", Caribbean Quarterly, Volume 64, 2018 - Issue 1

Annalee Davis, Joscelyn Gardner, Erica Moiah James, Jerry Philogene, David Scott, "Art as Caribbean Feminist Practice". Small Axe Journal (Duke University Press), April 2017, Issue 52

Raphael Fonseca, "Jamaican Pulse". Art Nexus, December 2016, Issue 99



TALKS & PANELS

2022   Invited presenter, Loophole of Retreat: Venice, Simone Leigh 2022 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2022   Invited presenter, Biotic Resistance conference, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford

2022   Visiting artist lecture, Department of Art, University of Virginia, VA

2021   Invited presenter, Penn-Mellon Just Futures Initiative, Disposessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land and Heritage, from La Conquista to the Present, First International Conference, University of Pennsylvania, PA

2021   MFASO Lecture, MFA Program in Studio Art, Hunter, The City University of New York, NY

2021   Guest lecture, Afrosurrealism and black experimental film, Cinema and Media Studies, Indiana University, IN

2021   Visitng artist lecture, Introduction to Studio Art, University of Virginia, VA

2019   On Inhospitality, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

2017   Arts in the Park: Professional Development Workshop, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

2017   Business of Art, National Gallery of the Cayman Islands, Grand Cayman, CI

2017   Tilting Axis Symposium, National Gallery of the Cayman Islands, Grand Cayman, CI

2017   Double Dutch: Heino Schmid + Deborah Anzinger, National Art Gallery of the Bahamas. Nassau, The Bahamas

2017   Social art practices, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD (Guest lecturer)

2015   Field Notes: Extracts, artist panel discussion, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, Brooklyn, NY

2015   Transformer Framework Panel 20-- Contemporary Art in the Caribbean, Art Museum of the Americas of the OAS,
           Washington, DC

           Connect: Social Practice, (e)merge art fair, Washington, DC

2015   New Roots, artist talk, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

2015   Art MicroHubs Live, Open Space, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco

2015   Findings. District of Columbia Arts Center (DCAC), Washington, DC



FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS & GRANTS

Soros Arts Fellowship, Open Society Foundations (2020)

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2018)

Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (2016)

Travel Grant, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2016)

Travel Grant, Prince Claus Fund (2014)

Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) grant, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL (2007)

International Grant, American Association of University Women (AAUW) Washington, D.C. (2005)



RESIDENCIES

Denniston Hill (2023)

MacDowell (2022)

Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists' Residency (2018)

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2016)

In(Habit) Artist Residency, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Silver Spring, MD (2010)



EDUCATION


PhD, Rush University Medical Center (2006)

BS, Washington College (2001)









 
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