NJARI ANDERSON
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His work explores how cultural production and capital exchange offer platforms for social critique and reflection. Through a research-grounded approach, Anderson warps, chops, and screws material, asserting an allegiance to medium-non specificity and ephemerality.
Anderson’s works often originate from meditations on speculative futures and the Black and Caribbean vernacular. He sees these elements as pivotal in a practice ultimately concerned with the universal themes of possibility, survival, and memory.
Anderson lives and works between Queens, New York, and Newark, New Jersey. He is a graduate of the Brown|RISD Dual Degree Program, receiving a BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and an AB in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University.
His solo presentations include his Dorner Prize-winning sculpture, Fountain at the RISD Museum, and his exhibition Saudade at La Papeleria in Madrid, Spain. He has also exhibited in other notable spaces: Galeria Cromática (CDMX, Mexico), Experimental Loop Film Festival (NYC, NY), Touchstone Gallery (Washington, DC), and Bridge Red Studios (Miami, FL).
He has been awarded residencies at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Massachusetts, and was the inaugural Decompress Artist-in-Residence with Data4Black. Anderson is also a recipient of the Windgate Lamar Craft Fellowship, the International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Achievement in Contemporary Sculptor Award, the American Visions Nomination, and is a 2019 Presidential Scholar in the Arts and a National YoungArts Foundation Visual Arts Winner with Distinction.
Detail from
One Hundred Small Fires
Detail from
Fountain
Detail from
Repeat
Currently thinking about steel drums and car doors.
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