BIOGRAPHY

Born: Harlem, New York, 1990

Resides: New York, New York

Education: Yale School of Art (M.F.A., 2015); Bard College (B.A., 2012)

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020    “Tschabalala Self: Out of Body,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

2019    “Thigh High,” Pilar Corrias, London.
            “Tschabalala Self,” Art Omi, New York.
            “Hammer Projects: Tschabalala Self,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. 
            “Tschabalala Self,” Frye Art Museum, Seattle.

2018    “Bodega Run,” Yuz Museum, Shanghai.

2017    “Bodega Run,” Pilar Corrias Gallery, London.
            “Tschabalala Self,” Tramway, Glasgow.
            “Tschabalala Self,” Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London.

2016    “Gut Feelings,” Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York.
            “The Function,” T293, Naples.

2015    “Tropicana,” The Cabin, Los Angeles.
            “Out of Body,” Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York.
            “Head over Heels,” Schur-Narula, Berlin.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020    “Beyond the Black Atlantic,” Hannover Kinstverein, Germany.
            “Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium,” Whitechapel Gallery, London.

2019    “Embodiment,” Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York.
            “Punch,” Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles.
            “Present Tense: Recent Gifts of Contemporary Art,” Philadelphia Art Museum, Pennsylvania.
            “Mood: Studio Museum Artists in Residence,” MoMA PS1, New York.
            “A Seed's a Star,” Loyal Gallery, Stockholm.
            “The Big Sleep,” 4th Artists’ Biennial, Haus der Kunst, Munich.
            “Paint Also Known as Blood,” Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw.
            “Dreamweavers,” UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles.
            “Show Me as I Want to Be Seen,” Jewish Museum, San Francisco.
            “Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

2018    “Triple: Alex Bradley Cohen, Louis Fratino, and Tschabalala Self,” University Art Museum, State University at Albany, New York.
            “Figure and Phantasy,” Maximillian William, London.
            “The Beyond: Georgia O’Keefe and Contemporary Art,” North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh.

            “Mademoiselle,” Le Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée, Sète, France.

2017    “Engendered,” Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles.
            “Slip,” Stems Gallery, Brussels.
            “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon,” New Museum, New York.
            “Face to Face: Los Angeles Collects Portraiture,” California African American Museum, Los Angeles.
            “From DADA to TA-DA,” Fisher Parrish Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2020    Turley, Sarah. “ICA Artist Show a Sense of Self in New Exhibit,” Suffolk Journal (February 1).

            Weir, V.F Keziah. “Index,” Vanity Fair (February 1).

            Whyte, Murray. “At the ICA, Rescuing an Art Star from the Auction Frenzy,” Boston Globe (January 31).

            Bruney, Gabrielle. “Fabric Shopping with Tschabalala Self, The Painter Who’s Creating Her Own Avatars of Black Womanhood,” I Weigh (January 29).

            Cascone, Sarah. “Here Are 21 Highly Anticipated, Mind-Expanding Museum Exhibitions to Seek Out Across the US in 2020,” Artnet (January 6).

            Reynolds, Pamela. “16 Art Exhibits Worth Leaving the House for This Winter,” WBUR (January 6).

            Buck, Louisa. “Tschabalala Self: Body Politics,” Art Newspaper January).

            Langmuir, Molly. “Culture: Female Gaze,” Elle (January).

            Okeke-Agulu, Chika. “Beyond the Black Atlantic,” Artforum (January).

            Mahmoud, Jasmine Jamillah. “Tschabalala Self: Out of Body,” Artforum (January).

2019   Russeth, Andrew. “Tschabalala Self Paints a Picture,” Artnews (Winter).

            Serota, KC. “The Visual Is Political,” Bardian (Winter).

            Crow, Kelly. “‘We Were White and Sleepy Before’: The Baltimore Museum of Art’s Radical Makeover,” Wall Street Journal (November 22).

            Cohen, Alina. “Inside Tschabalala Self’s Complicated, Meteoric Rise through the Art Market,” Artsy (October 6).

2018

Simmonds, Georgia. “Welcome to Miami,” Porter (Winter).

“Tschabalala Self,” Fat Magazine (Winter).

Kinsella, Eileen. “Here Are the 10 Absolute Best Works of Art We Saw Around the World in 2018,” Artnet (December 27).

Miss Rosen. “Inside Tschabalala Self’s Queer, Black Party Providing an Escape in Miami,” Dazed (December 13).

Brady, Anna. “Talking Points at Art Basel in Miami Beach,” Art Newspaper (December 7).

Crow, Kelly. “In Miami, a Somber Mood Sets In,” Wall Street Journal (December 3).

Miller, Daphne. “Artist Tschabalala Self on Supporting ‘the Black and Femme Imagination,’” It’s Nice That (November 5).

Gaskin, Sam. “Art Exhibitions to See: Shanghai Lowdown,” Ocula (November 2).