Jamal Cyrus Explained

Jamal Cyrus (born 1973) is an American conceptual artist who works in a range of media, including drawing, sculpture, textiles, assemblage, installation, performance, and sound.[1] [2] [3] His artistic and research practices investigates the history, culture, and identity of the United States, questioning conventional narratives and foregrounding Black political movements, social justice concerns, and the experiences and impact of the African diaspora, including Black music.[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

Biography

Cyrus was born in Houston, Texas, where he lives and works.[11] He received a BFA from the University of Houston in 2004 before attending the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2005. In 2008, he graduated from the MFA program at the University of Pennsylvania.[12] Cyrus was an artist-in-residence at Artpace San Antonio in 2010 and a member of the Otabenga Jones and Associates artist collective from 2002 to 2017.[13]

Art Work

Cyrus's artistic practice is research-based; he makes use of physical and digital archives to investigate American history and historiography through the lens of Black oppression, liberation, and identity.[14] [15] [16] Working in a range of media and materials, his works combine found images, documents, and objects with paper, graphite, papyrus, denim, and other materials, and includes mixed-media installations, assemblages, sculptures, drawings, performances, sound, and video.[17] [18] In referencing material and iconographic aspects of Black history alongside historical events, interpretations, tropes, fabulations, and mythologies, Cyrus's work addresses themes such as counterculture, surveillance, militancy, revolution, and consumerism.[19] [20] [21] [22]

Exhibitions

Cyrus has exhibited widely in both solo and group shows. His work has been featured at the Whitney Biennial, Art Basel Miami, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Akron Art Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Blaffer Art Museum, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, the Mississippi Museum of Art, the Asia Society, the New Museum, the Kitchen, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Museum of London Docklands.[23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30]

In addition, as a member of Otabenga Jones and Associates, Cyrus exhibited at the High Museum, National Museum of African American History and Culture, the California African American Museum, and the Menil Collection, among other venues.

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Harper . Daria Simone . 2022-07-14 . In Conversation with Jamal Cyrus . 2023-05-22 . Burnaway . en-US.
  2. Web site: Jamal Cyrus joins permanent collection . 2023-05-22 . Ruby City . en-US.
  3. Web site: Zastudil . Nancy . 2022-04-12 . The Pace of Place: Jamal Cyrus at The Modern . 2023-05-22 . Arts and Culture Texas . en-US.
  4. Web site: Glentzer . Molly . 2021-07-15 . Houston Artist Jamal Cyrus's Playful, Subversive Vision of Black History . 2023-05-22 . Texas Monthly . en.
  5. Web site: Valentine . Victoria L. . 2020-02-13 . Houston-Based Artist Jamal D. Cyrus on Receiving 2020 David C. Driskell Prize: 'The Symbolism is Extremely Important to Me' . 2023-05-22 . Culture Type . en-US.
  6. Web site: 2022 . FOCUS: Jamal Cyrus . 2023-05-22 . Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth . en.
  7. Web site: Tipton . Cammie . April 2022 . Jamal Cyrus . 2023-05-22 . Public Art: University of Houston System . en.
  8. Web site: Harris . Alysia Nicole . 2022-11-17 . The Art of Black Regard . 2023-05-22 . Scalawag . en-US.
  9. Baker . Susan J. . 2022 . Soundwaves: Experimental Strategies in Art + Music [Review] ]. Venue: A Digital Journal of the Midwest Art History Society . 1 . 1 . 154–159.
  10. Book: Beckwith . Naomi . The freedom principle: experiments in art and music, 1965 to now . Roelstraete . Dieter . 2015 . Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in association with The University of Chicago Press . 978-0-226-31930-8 . Chicago (Ill.) London.
  11. Web site: Jamal D. Cyrus . 2023-05-22 . High Museum of Art . en-US.
  12. Web site: 2016-02-12 . Jamal Cyrus . 2023-05-22 . Artadia.
  13. Web site: Jamal Cyrus . 2023-05-22 . Inman Gallery . en.
  14. Book: Jamal Cyrus: The End of My Beginning [2002] ]. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles . 2022 . Los Angeles, CA . en.
  15. Web site: Chávez . Caitlin Duerler . 2021-09-15 . New Historiography for Black Excellence: Jamal Cyrus "The End of My Beginning" at the Blaffer Art Museum . 2023-05-23 . The Art Studio, Inc. . en-US.
  16. Book: Cyrus, Jamal . Jamal Cyrus: the end of my beginning . 2021 . Inventory Press . Blaffer Art Museum . 978-1-941753-44-6 . Bell . Eugenia . Los Angeles, CA.
  17. Web site: Dawkins . Chad . 2023-04-11 . Jamal Cyrus: The End of My Beginning . 2023-05-22 . Art Papers . en-US.
  18. News: Cotter . Holland . 2012-11-29 . Racial Redefinition in Progress . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-05-23 . 0362-4331.
  19. Book: African cosmologies: photography, time and the other . 2020 . Schilt Publishing . 978-90-5330-932-2 . Sealy . Mark . Amsterdam, NL.
  20. Book: Lee, Pamela M. . Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present . . 2020 . 9780262357036 . 228 . en.
  21. Barrett . David . March 2019 . We are the people. Who are you? . Art Monthly . 424 . 22–23 . . ProQuest.
  22. Stabler . Bert . Waits . Mira Rai . Summer 2022 . Introduction to Visual Arts Research Special Issue, Body Cam: The Visual Regimes of Policing . Visual Arts Research . 48 . 1 . 1–16. 10.5406/21518009.48.1.01 . 248929653 . free .
  23. Web site: Jamal Cyrus The End Of My Beginning . 2023-05-22 . Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles . en.
  24. Web site: Jamal Cyrus . 2023-05-22 . P.5 Yesterday We Said Tomorrow . en-US.
  25. Web site: Jamal Cyrus: The End of My Beginning . 2023-05-22 . Mississippi Museum of Art . en-US.
  26. Web site: Slowed and Throwed: Records of the City Through Mutated Lenses . 2023-05-22 . Contemporary Arts Museum Houston . en-US.
  27. Web site: 2006 . Jamal Cyrus . 2023-05-22 . The Whitney 2006 Biennial: Day for Night.
  28. Web site: 2020-09-10 . Jamal Cyrus . 2023-05-22 . The Studio Museum in Harlem . en.
  29. Web site: Jamal Cyrus wins BMW's sixth Art Journey award . 2023-05-22 . Art Basel . en.
  30. Web site: Jamal Cyrus: The End of My Beginning . 2023-05-22 . Blaffer Art Museum . en-US.
  31. Web site: Dansby . Andrew . 2023-04-06 . Houston playwright, visual artist awarded Guggenheim Fellowship for their work in the arts . 2023-05-22 . Houston Chronicle . en-US.
  32. Web site: Hawley . Rebecca . May 17, 2023 . Alumnus Reflects on Guggenheim Fellowship . 2023-05-22 . University of Houston . en.
  33. Web site: Guggenheim Fellowships Recipients Announced, Jamal Cyrus, Kapwani Kiwanga and Pamela Council are Among the Winners . 2023-05-22 . Widewalls . en.
  34. Web site: 2019-09-25 . Jamal Cyrus . 2023-05-22 . Joan Mitchell Foundation . en.
  35. Web site: Jamal Cyrus . 2023-05-22 . BMW Art Journey . en.
  36. Web site: Brennan . Samia . Smithsonian Awards Fellowships to 10 Artists to Conduct Research at Museums and Research Facilities . 2023-05-22 . Smithsonian Institution . en.
  37. Web site: Jamal Cyrus . 2023-05-22 . The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation . en-US.

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