NJARI ANDERSON
WORKS ARCHIVE
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RESEARCH
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Brown|RISD Dual Degree
5-Year Program between Brown University and RISD. Students are enrolled in both schools simultaneously for 5-five years and graduate with two Bachelor's Degrees.
2024 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture
Rhode Island School of Design(RISD), Providence, RI
2024 Bachelor of Arts, Modern Culture and Media
Brown University, Providence, RI
SOLO PRESENTATIONS + EXHIBITIONS
2022 Fountain, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
GROUP PRESENTATIONS + EXHIBITIONS
2025 [anTicipated] Walden Woods Exhibition for the Umbrella Arts Center, Hapgood-Wright Town Forest, Concord, Mass
2024 TBD Exhibition, La Papeleria, Madrid, Spain
2024 EXPERIMENTAL LOOP FILM FESTIVAL, GOVERNER’S ISLAND, NYC
2024 UNTITLED, PERFORMANCE WITH PRISCILLA ALEMAN AND KENYON ADAMS, WASHINGTON, D.C
2024 National Open Juried Exhibition, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
2024 The Black Biennial, Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2024 Figure, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC
2023 Each Thing Everyone, Sculpture Triennial, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
2023 ISC Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, The Seward Johnson Atelier, Trenton, NJ
2023 New Contemporaries, Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2023 Senior Invitational, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
2023 The Untitled Show, Dye House, Providence, RI
2023 1,000,000 Grit, Senior Sculpture Exhibition, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
2023 Bliss Information, Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2023 The BluPrnt, Bridge Red Studios, North Miami, FL
2022 Missed Connections, Memorial Hall Gallery, Providence, RI
2022 Friends with Benefits, Estrella Gallery, Manhattan, NYC
2022 Objects and Non-Objects, 20 Washington Place, Providence, RI
2022 Missed Connections, Memorial Hall Gallery, Providence, RI
2022 The Black Biennial, Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2022 EQUATOR, Estrella Gallery, Manhattan, NYC
2022 translat[ ], Perry and Marty Granoff Center, Brown University, Providence, RI
2021 La Memoria es Distante, Galería Cromática, Mexico City, Mexico
2021 “Score A Body,” Estrella Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC
2020 Serving the People, BFA Show, https://stp.world/
2020 Experimental Foundation Studies Triennial, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
2019 Presidential Scholars in the Arts, John. F Kennedy Center, Washington D.C
2019 Norton Museum of Art Rising Student Artists, West Palm Beach, FL
2019 YoungArts Finalists, Miami, FL
2019 In and Out of Body, Carrhaus, Providence, RI
HONORS AND AWARDS
2025 Anderson Ranch Artist in Resident
2024 Studios at MassMoca Artist in Resident
2024 [currently] Data for Black Lives: Decompress Artist in resident
2024 Windgate Lamar Fellowship Recipient
2024 Spur Research Grant
2023 Windgate Lamar Fellowship Award Nominee
2023 Royce Fellowship
2022 Dorner Prize
2022 International Sculpture Center Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture
2022 Brown Arts Initiative Design+Research Fellowship
2021 ArTist for ChangeNOW Scholar
2019 Presidential Scholar in the Arts
2019 Links Foundation Artist
2019 Pathfinder in the Arts, Visual Arts, Runner-Up
2019 YoungArts Award With Distinction
2019 Scholastics Art and Writing National Silver Portfolio with Distinction
2019 Scholastics Art and Writing American Visions Nominee
PRESS
2023 January - A Sense of Belonging, by Simone Solondz
2023 January - Sculpture Magazine 2022-2023 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Recipients
2022 December - The New York Times Reporters Notebook: Masks Off, Wallets Out: Art Basel 2022, by Brett Sokol
2022 August - Permission to Create: Five YoungArts Award Winners on Sustaining Their Creative Practice by Nicole Martinez
2022 May - Black Star Journal, Black Art as Black Being by Eastlyn Frankel
2022 March - Rhode Island Monthly, “Black Biennial” Takes Center Stage at RISD by Dana Rae Laverty
2022 The Black Biennial Catalog
2022 Permission to Create: Five YoungArts Award Winners on Sustaining Their Creative Practice, by Nicole Martinez
2021 July - COPY, Art Space Shows I've Loved Recently by Naava Guarac
2021 July - ReillyDavidson, shows2021 by Reilly Davidson
2019 January - ArtMiamiMagazine, National YoungArts Week
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Consuming Culture As An Internet Lightweight, byline, by Njari Anderson
2023 On Culture, Are.na.org, written by Njari Anderson
2022 Deana Lawson: DOUBLE VISION, Portals Magazine, by Njari Anderson and Uwa Ede Osifo
2022 The Black Biennial, The Black Biennial: Black Hole, Black (W)hole, V.1, written by Njari Anderson
2022 Are.na Annual, Are.na.org, It Became Ritual co-written by Njari Anderson and Ariel Dong
ARTIST TALKS
2024 BODY AS ARCHIVE, PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARS FOUNDATION, WASHINGTON, D.C.
2024 CO-FACILITATED RISD MLK SERIES: AN EVENING OF ART AND JUSTICE, Rhode Island School of Design
2023 Sculpture Senior Artist Talk, Rhode Island School of Design
2022 FOUNTAIN, Dorner Prize, RISD Museum
WORK + ASSISTANTSHIPS
2024 ARTS INTERN AT THE KNIGHT FOUNDATION
2024 STUDIO MANAGER FOR ARTIST DERRICK WOODS MORROW
2023 Intern to DoMinic Molon, THE Chief Curator and the Curator of Contemporary Art at the RISD Museum
2023 Design Assistant and Fabricator for Derrick Woods-Morrow on solo show Gravity Pleasure Switchback
2022 Design and Research Assistant to Theaster Gates, on projects Black Chapel, Serpentine, London and Young Lords and their Traces, New Museum, NYC
2018-2019 Norton Museum of Art, TASQ, Student, Education, and Public Programs Coordinator