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Aisha Tandiwe Bell
Artist Ming Smith photographing artist Aisha Tandiwe Bell at Brooklyn Museum during Black Lunch Table in honor of We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85.
Born
New York City
NationalityAmerican
EducationBFA, Pratt Institute; MS Pratt Institute; MFA Hunter College
Alma materPratt Institute
StyleMixed media artist
WebsiteArtist website Twitter account

Aisha Tandiwe Bell is an American visual artist known for her work that creates myth and ritual through mixed media including sculpture performance, video, sound, drawing, and installation that addresses themes of fragmentation, shape-shifting, code-switching, hyphenated identities and multiple consciousness, marginalization, and lack of agency people in the African Diaspora struggle with.[1][2][3][4]

Biography

Bell was born and resides in New York City. She is a recipient of the 2017 DVCAI International Cultural Exchange to Guadeloupe.[5] Bell has completed a number of residencies/ fellowships including Skowhegan, Rush Corridor Gallery, Abron’s Art Center, LMCC’s Swing Space, The Laundromat Project, BRIC,[6] Hunter College Ceramic Residency[7] in 2013 and as the Artist In Residence in 2010 at Abron's Art Center Henry Street Settlement in New York, NY.

Exhibitions

2017

2016

  • BRIC Biennial, Brooklyn, New York[10]
  • Let them eat red earth. Let them eat dirt, Space One Eleven, Birmingham, AL, curated by Rosie Gordan-Wallace
  • Space One Eleven AIR, Birmingham, AL

2015

  • [MoCADA], Museum of Contemporary Art of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts, Brooklyn, NY[11]

2012

  • The Laundromat Project Public Art Commission, NY

2002

  • Skylight Gallery at Restoration Plaza, Jamaica, NY[12]

References

  1. ^ "Aisha Tandiwe Bell, Workspace 2017-18 - LMCC". LMCC.
  2. ^ "Welancora Gallery Press Release" (PDF). Retrieved 21 October 2018.
  3. ^ "CARIBBEAT: Small nations gear up for Labor Day's big West Indian Parade". New York Daily News. July 10, 2016. Retrieved October 21, 2018.
  4. ^ "Analogous Exhibit by Aisha Tandiwe Bell at the HCC Dale Mabry Gallery | Hillsborough Community College News". news.hccfl.edu. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
  5. ^ "DVCAI | I.C.E Guadelope". dvcai.org. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
  6. ^ "2016 BRIC Visual Artist Residency Recipients Announced!". BRIC Arts Media. May 10, 2016. Retrieved October 21, 2018.
  7. ^ "2016 BRIC Visual Artist Residency Recipients Announced!". BRIC. 10 May 2016.
  8. ^ "Welancora Gallery Press Release" (PDF). Retrieved 21 October 2018.
  9. ^ "Aisha Tandiwe "Bell Conjure"". www.nyartbeat.com. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
  10. ^ "2016 BRIC Visual Artist Residency Recipients Announced!". BRIC. 10 May 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
  11. ^ Reis, Victoria (11 December 2015). "Artists of the African Diaspora Cast Off the Legacy of Displacement". Hyperallergic. Hyperallergic. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
  12. ^ "New work by four emerging women artists at skylight gallery's 2002 challenge exhibit". New Voice of New York, Inc. Harlem USA. September 11, 2002. Retrieved 21 October 2018.