Jamilah Sabur Explained

Jamilah Sabur
Birth Place:Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica
Alma Mater:Maryland Institute College of Art (BFA, 2009),
University of California San Diego (MFA, 2014)
Movement:Contemporary art

Jamilah Sabur (born 1987) is a Jamaican-born contemporary artist working across different disciplines and issues such as performance, installation, video, geography, identity, and language. Sabur lives in Miami, Florida.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Biography

Jamilah Sabur was born in 1987 in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica.[5] [6] She received a BFA degree in 2009 in interdisciplinary sculpture from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore; and an MFA degree in 2014 in visual arts from the University of California, San Diego.

In 2018, she was an artist in residence at Flagler College’s Crisp-Ellert Art Museum in St. Augustine, Florida.[7] In 2019, Sabur's site-specific project for the Hammer Museum at University of California, was celebrated in a combined exhibition opening with visual artist Tschabalala Self.[8] [9] [10]

In an exhibition review by the Mark Jenkins at The Washington Post, in 2020, the artist spoke via email about her relationship to nature.[11]

“I spent a lot of time in the desert thinking about how a body navigates space in a philosophical sense. I made ephemeral gestures in the land that later transformed into sculptures and sets to perform in.”
The Pérez Art Museum Miami presented the group show The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Caribbean Contemporary Art, in 2019. Jamilah Sabur's work was included alongside other thirteen artists from the Caribbean and it's diaspora. The exhibition's main question was "what might a Caribbean future look like?”[12] [13]

At Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow in 2021, New Orleans, Sabur presented Bulk Pangaea, a video installation commenting on the relationship between Louisiana, Belgium, the Duke of Wellington, Napoleon, and transatlantic trade between Africa and the Americas.[14]

In 2022, she presented a new body of work at a solo show titled The Harvesters in the Bass Museum of Art, Florida, in which she references Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1565 painting of same title.[15] [16]

Exhibitions

Collections

Jamilah Sabur's work is included in permanent collections of museums in the US and abroad.

References

  1. Web site: Smith . Melissa . 2021-12-06 . How an Aluminum Mine in Jamaica Became the Conceptual Core of Breakout Artist Jamilah Sabur's New Miami Show . 2023-06-13 . Artnet News . en-US.
  2. Web site: 2019-01-19 . Hammer Projects: Jamilah Sabur Hammer Museum . 2023-06-13 . hammer.ucla.edu . en.
  3. News: Watch Now: Jamilah Sabur . en . 2023-06-13.
  4. Web site: 2016-09-28 . Jamilah Sabur: My Queen before you go tell my horse . 2023-06-13 . The Miami Rail . en-US.
  5. Web site: Jamilah Sabur . 2023-06-13 . Commissioner . en-US.
  6. Web site: Jamilah Sabur • Pérez Art Museum Miami . 2023-06-14 . Pérez Art Museum Miami . en-US.
  7. Web site: 2018-11-28 . BOMB Magazine Water as Memory and Dreams: Jamilah Sabur Interviewed . 2023-06-13 . BOMB Magazine.
  8. Web site: Celebrating Jamilah Sabur and Tschabalala Self's Hammer Projects . 2023-06-13 . www.culturedmag.com . en.
  9. Web site: Jamilah Sabur at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles . 2023-06-13 . Contemporary Art Library . en.
  10. Web site: MiMi . 2020-05-29 . Any Means Necessary: The Interdisciplinary World of Jamilah Sabur . 2023-06-13 . agoradigital.art . en-GB.
  11. News: 2020-11-04 . This artist is inspired by landscape, whether terrestrial, cosmic or internal . en-US . Washington Post . 2023-06-13 . 0190-8286.
  12. Web site: The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art • Pérez Art Museum Miami . 2023-06-13 . Pérez Art Museum Miami . en-US.
  13. Web site: THE OTHER SIDE OF NOW, A LOOK INTO CARIBBEAN FUTURE – PÉREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI – Arte Al Dia . 2023-06-13 . www.artealdia.com . en-US.
  14. Web site: Uszerowicz . Monica . 2022-01-24 . Mining Meaning: Jamilah Sabur at Nina Johnson . 2023-06-13 . ARTnews.com . en-US.
  15. Web site: Solomon . Tessa . 2022-11-30 . Two Shows at the Bass Ask Us to Look to the Sea and Stars to Solve Climate Change . 2023-06-13 . ARTnews.com . en-US.
  16. Web site: Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Harvesters . 2023-06-13 . The Metropolitan Museum of Art . en.
  17. Web site: 2022-10-12 . THE HARVESTERS The Bass Museum of Art Contemporary Art Miami . 2023-06-13 . The Bass Museum of Art . en-US.
  18. Web site: 2022-06-16 . Eltanin . 2023-06-13 . Broadway . en-US.
  19. Web site: Observations: Selected Works by Jamilah Sabur University of Maryland Art Gallery . 2023-06-13 . artgallery.umd.edu.
  20. Web site: The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art . 2023-06-13 . C& AMÉRICA LATINA . en.
  21. Web site: Jamilah Sabur: The Rhetoric of the Living - Emerson Dorsch . 2023-08-25 . emersondorsch.com . en-US.
  22. Web site: 2017-09-17 . A Temporary Inhabitance: The Ghosts in Jamilah Sabur . 2023-06-13 . MICE Magazine . en.
  23. Web site: If Defined, Then Undefine— Jamilah Sabur . 2023-06-13 . Contemporary And . de.
  24. Web site: Tilt (blue) • Pérez Art Museum Miami . 2023-06-13 . Pérez Art Museum Miami . en-US.
  25. Web site: Mending the Sky . 2023-06-13 . New Orleans Museum of Art . en-US.

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