NJARI ANDERSON
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Njari Anderson (Clarendon, Jamaica, 2001) narrativizes loss, visibility, danger, and the pleasures of ambiguity through media, culture, and public space. Interested in the interstices of consumption, exploitation, social critique, and technology, Anderson invokes himself, the Internet, and extended metaphors to interfere in points of exploitative, capital exchange disproportionately affecting disenfranchised communities. Oscillating between criticism and provocation, he moves fluidly between social sculpture, film, writing, performance, and the archive to make conceptually rich interventions.
Anderson is an alumna of the Brown|RISD Dual Degree Program, holding a BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and an AB in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University. He has been awarded residencies at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Massachusetts, and is a recipient of the Windgate Lamar Craft Fellowship, the RISD Museum’s Dorner Prize, the ISC’s Outstanding Sculptor Award, and was awarded the distinction of Presidential Scholar in the Arts.
Notable exhibitions include solo presentations at La Papeleria (Madrid, Spain) and the RISD Museum (Providence, RI), two-person presentations at Galeria Cromática (CDMX, Mexico), and recent group showings at Machines with Magnets (Pawtucket, RI), the Experimental Loop Film Festival (NYC, NY), Touchstone Gallery (Washington, DC), Bridge Red Studios (Miami, FL,) and Estrella Gallery (NYC, NY).
Detail from
One Hundred Small Fires
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Fountain
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Repeat
Currently thinking about steel drums and car doors.
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