NEKISHA DURRETT | CV
EDUCATION
MFA 2000 - University of Michigan School of Art and Design
BFA 1998 - The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
PUBLIC ART | SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Queen City (In Progress), Mets Park, Arlington, VA
2021
Airshaft, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
2020
Prepare to Participate, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, DC
Remember What They Did Billboard Campaign, Various US States
Word on the Street, Emerson Collective, Washington, DC
Messages for the City with Times Square Arts, Poster House NY + For Freedoms, Times Square, New York, NY
2019
Then I Wished That I Could Come Back as a Flower, Hall Arts Hotel, Washington, DC
Couple No.1, Hall Arts Hotel, Dallas, TX
I See Myself in You, Miami-Dade Transit Depot, Miami, FL
Up ‘til Now, Dupont Circle, Washington, DC
2018
Out of the Blue Black, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA
Heaven Lasts Forever, The Parks at Walter Reed, Washington, DC
2018
Then I Wished That I Could Come Back as a Flower, US Botanic Garden, Washington, DC
And the Ancestors Say…, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Washington, DC
2016
A Garden Party, The West End Library, Washington, DC
The Twisted Horn, The Twisted Horn, Washington, DC
2015
Uncensored DC | I Love You Miss Celie, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library Washington, DC
2014
The Wait, Mothership Diner, Washington, DC
2013
O'er Yonder, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, DC
2011
Sweet, 3Tree Flats, Washington, DC
2009
Colossus, Hillyer Art Center, Washington, DC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Inside, Outside, Upside Down, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Atlanta Biennial: Of Care and Destruction, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2020
The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today, Springfield Museums, Springfield, MA
100 Years | 100 Women, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
Migrations, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2019
The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today, The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
Dialogues, STABLE Gallery, Washington, DC
2018
Parallel Lives, The Anthenaem, Alexandria, Virginia
2016
Life Soundtrack, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington, DC
2014
Quota, The Murrell Building, Washington, DC
Alchemical Vessels, Joan Hisaoka Gallery, Washington, DC
Washington Project for the Arts Select 2014, Artisphere, Arlington, VA
2010
Untitled Group Show, Suzanne Randolph Fine Arts, New York, NY
2009
Party Crashers, Artisphere, Arlington, VA
2008
Off Color I, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Off Color II, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Other Mainstream II: Selections from the Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
She's So Articulate, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
Anonymous, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
15 for Philip, Curator's Office, Washington, DC
2007
Off Color, Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami, FL
Nekisha Durrett and El Franco Lee, Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2006
Me, You, & Those Other Folks, Gallery at Flashpoint, Washington, DC
2005
Vote With You Art, OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Group Show, Whitman-Walker Clinic, Washington, DC
Rising Voices, DC Arts Center, Washington, DC
2002
Portraits, Art-O-Matic, Washington, DC
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2020
Artist Fellowship Program Grant, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
2019
The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today Finalist, The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
2018
Artist Fellowship Program Grant, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
2017
Artist Fellowship Program Grant, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
2014
Public Art Building Communities Grant, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Artist Fellowship Program Grant, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2018
Fired Up! Ready To Go! Finding Beauty, Demanding Equity: An African American Life in Art, By Peggy Cooper Cafritz. Rizzoli Electa
2008
The Other Mainstream II, edited by Heather Lineberry, Arizona State University Art Museum
2000
Reflections in Black, edited by Deborah Willis, WW Norton Publishing
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