Derek Fordjour
Derek Fordjour (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la yuuni 1974) nyɛla Americanima nuchee ni baŋda mini shikuru baŋda zaŋ n-ti Ghanaian heritage[1] ka o tuma nyɛ din jɛndi collage, video/film, sculpture n-ti pahi pɛntibu.[2] Fordjour nyɛla ŋun be New York City.[3][4][5]
Derek Fordjour | |
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Memphis, 1974 (run 49/50) | |
O ya Tiŋgbaŋ | America |
Residence | New York |
Paɣa/yidana | LaChanze (mul) (Silimin gɔli July 30, 2005) |
Education | |
Shikuru shɛli o ni chaŋ | Harvard University (en) Morehouse College (en) Harvard Graduate School of Education (en) |
Tuma | |
Tuma | visual artist (en) , film director (en) , film producer (en) ni film screenwriter (en) |
Notable work | PARADE (en) |
Nira zaŋti | Alpha Phi Alpha (en) |
IMDb | nm2434400 |
Piligu biɛhigu mini shikuru baŋsim
mali niŋDerek Fordjour nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so yuuni 1974 tiŋ yuli booni Memphis, Tennessee. O lammba nyɛla Ghananima.[6]
Fordjour nyɛla ŋun daa nya MFA shikuru yuli booni Hunter College,[7] ka daa deegi Ed. M in Arts Education shikuru yuli booni Harvard University.[8]
Tuma
mali niŋO nyɛla bɛ daa piigi so ʒiba zaŋ n-ti Alex Katz Cooper Union din be spring 2020,[9] tum yuuni 2018 o daa nyɛla "core critic" n-ti Yale University School of Art.[9][10]
Awards, honors, and collections
mali niŋO nyɛla ŋun daa deegi yuuni 2016 Sugarhill Museum Artist-in-Residence,[11] 2017 Sharpe Walentas Studio Program[12] din be New York City, and the 2018 Deutsche Bank NYFA Fellowship Award.[13]
O tuma nyɛla din be "public and private collections" di shɛŋa nyɛ Studio Museum in Harlem,[14][15] Brooklyn Museum,[16] Pérez Art Museum Miami[17] Dallas Museum of Art,[18] Whitney Museum,[19] n-ti pahi Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Select exhibitions
mali niŋ- 2020, 'SELF MUST DIE', Petzel Gallery, New York, NY[20]
- 2020, 'SHELTER', Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO[21]
- 2019: 'The House Always Wins', Josh Lilley, London, UK[22]
- 2019: 'JRRNNYS', Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA[23]
- 2018 'Half Mast', the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY[24]
- 2018: 'Derek Fordjour: Camelot Study', BAM, Brooklyn, NY[25]
- 2018 'Ritual', Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, FL[26]
- 2017 'PARADE', Sugar Hill Museum, New York, NY[27]
- 2016: 'Agency and Regulation', LUCE Gallery, Turin, Italy[28]
- 2016: 'Eight Paintings', Papillion Art, Los Angeles, CA[29]
- 2015 'UPPER ROOM', Robert Blumenthal Gallery, New York, NY[30]
Selected press and reviews
mali niŋ- Hyperallergic, "Derek Fordjour Conjures a Heavenly World", Seph Rodney, December 16, 2020[20]
- T: The New York Times Style Magazine, "Marching to..." T Magazine, November 27, 2020[3]
- New York Times, "Derek Fordjour, From Anguish...", Siddhartha Mitter, November 19, 2020[4]
- ARTNews, "Best Practices: Derek Fordjour...", Andy Battaglia, November 10, 2020[5]
- Financial Times, "Derek Fordjour on painting...", Jackie Wullschläger, October 20, 2020[31]
- Elephant Magazine, "Derek Fordjour Uses Sport...", Emily Steer, October 16, 2020[32]
- Artsy, "Derek Fordjour Honors Disenfranchised...", Jacqui Germain, June 3, 2020[33]
- Financial Times, "Painting crowds, or the lack...", Jackie Wullschläger, May 8, 2020[34]
- Hyperallergic, "Derek Fordjour Considers...", Jack Radley, April 6, 2020[21]
- Artforum, "Critics Pick: Derek Fordjour: Shelter", Jennifer Piejko, January 2020[35]
- St. Louis Post Dispatch, "Beyond white walls...", Jane Henderson, January 17, 2020[36]
- Financial Times, "Four exhibitions bring African...", Jackie Wullschlager, 2019[37]
- Artnews, "Petzel Gallery Now Represents Derek...", Annie Armstrong, 2019[38]
- Galerie, "The rising-star artist uses imagery of carnivals...", Lucy Rees, 2019[39]
- Cultured, "Artist Derek Fordjour Revels in The Game...", Jennifer Piejko, 2019[40]
- Los Angeles Times, "Datebook: Paintings of...", Carolina A. Miranda, 2019[41]
- The Wall Street Journal, "'I Don't Want to Be a Blip...", Kelly Crow, 2019[42]
- Artnet News, "8 Art Advisors Tell Us Which Artists...", Henri Neuendorf, 2018[43]
- Culture Type, "Historic Bequest: Late Arts...", Victoria L. Valentine, Oct, 10 2018[44]
- Artnet News, "Price Check! Here's What Sold...", artnet News, October 9, 2018[45]
- Hyperallergic, "Studio Museum in Harlem...", Jasmine Weber, October 8, 2018[14]
- Artnews, "Even as Brexit Looms, Galleries...", Judd Tully, October 3, 2018[46]
- Gotham, "6 Innovators Shaping...", The Editors, October 1, 2018[47]
- Juvenile Justice, "Arts-centered New York...", Shay Urbani, May 25, 2018[48]
- Hyperallergic, "Wandering the Artists...", Seph Rodney, May 5, 2018[49]
- Surface, "Best of Zona Maco 2018", Brooke Porter Katz, February 11, 2018[50]
- Artsy, "What Sold at Zona Maco", Anna Louie Sussman, February 11, 2018[51]
- Hyperallergic, "The Political Truths...", Seph Rodney, February 9, 2018[52]
- The Art Newspaper, "Art Los...", Maxwell Williams, January 31, 2018[53]
- Artnet News, "How Artist Derek Fordjour...", Sarah Cascone, December 18, 2017[2]
- Hyperallergic, "A Dreamy Carnival...", Seph Rodney, November 22, 2017[54]
- The Undefeated, "The Portrait of an Artist...", Kelley D. Evans, October 6, 2017[55]
- Galerie Magazine, "Derek Fordjour's Immersive...", Jacqueline Terrebonne, August 2, 2017[56]
- Vice, "Sports Are a Metaphor for Inequality...", Francesca Capossela, June 21, 2017[57]
- Los Angeles Times, "And There is an End...", David Pagel, March 21, 2016[58]
- Los Angeles Times, "Derek Fordjour: Eight Paintings.." by Carolina Miranda, February 4, 2016[59]
- Observer, "Nine Overachieving New Yorkers You Must Date", February 3, 2016[6]
- New York Times, "From Derek Fordjour..." by Holland Cotter, November 19, 2015[60]
- Los Angeles Times, "And There is an End.." by David Pagel, March 21, 2015[61]
- The Brooklyn Rail, Review of 'The Big Game'.. by Johnathan Goodman, October 7, 2014[62]
- Ebony, "Artist Derek Fordjour has a Lesson for...,", by Souleo, September 29, 2014[63]
- Huffington Post, "The Sports World Could Learn..." by Souleo, 2014[64]
- MSNBC's TheGrio.com, "40 Amazing Black Artists to Watch in 2014", January 3, 2014[65]
Kundivihira
mali niŋ- ↑ Bradley, Adam (2022-07-08). "The Historically Black College Reconsiders the Studio Art Program" (en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/t-magazine/hbcu-art-programs.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 How Artist Derek Fordjour Turned Cardboard and Newspaper Into a Carnival Funhouse (en-US) (2017-12-18).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Marching to the Beat of Their Own Drum" (en-US). The New York Times. 2020-11-27. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/t-magazine/derek-fordjour.html.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Mitter, Siddhartha (2020-11-19). "Derek Fordjour, From Anguish to Transcendence" (en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/arts/design/derek-fordjour-self-must-die.html.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Battaglia, Andy (2020-11-10). Best Practices: Derek Fordjour's Art Stares Down Shared Fears and Vulnerabilities (en-US).
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Steadman, Ryan (2016-02-03). "Nine Overachieving New Yorkers You Must Date" (en-US). Observer. http://observer.com/2016/02/nine-new-yorkers-you-must-date/.
- ↑ Hunter College MFA Spring 2016 Thesis Exhibitions — Hunter College.
- ↑ Black Sorority Project. thinktalk.com. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Derek Fordjour now represented by David Kordansky Gallery (English) (February 6, 2021).
- ↑ NLE honors Derek Fordjour! (en-US) (March 4, 2019).
- ↑ AIR Derek Fordjour (en-US).
- ↑ Archived copy.
- ↑ Derek Fordjour 2018 Deutsche Bank NYFA Fellow.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Weber, Jasmine (2018-10-09). Studio Museum in Harlem and DC Arts High School Receive Historic Gift of Over 650 Contemporary Works (en-US).
- ↑ Peggy Cooper Cafritz Bequeaths Over 400 Works to the Studio Museum (en) (2018-10-10).
- ↑ Brooklyn Museum.
- ↑ Pérez Art Museum Miami Announces New Acquisitions from Eleven Artists for Permanent Collection.
- ↑ Dallas Museum of Art Debuts New Acquisitions in New Exhibition "Contemporary Art + Design" | Dallas Museum of Art.
- ↑ Derek Fordjour | Half Mast (en).
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Rodney, Seph (2020-12-16). Derek Fordjour Conjures a Heavenly World (en-US).
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Radley, Jack (2020-04-06). Derek Fordjour Considers the Precariousness of Shelter (en-US).
- ↑ Rogers, Simon. josh-lilley (en).
- ↑ Derek Fordjour - JRRNNYS - Exhibitions - Night Gallery.
- ↑ Derek Fordjour: Half Mast (en).
- ↑ Derek Fordjour: Camelot Study (en).
- ↑ Ritual (en-US) (2018-02-23).
- ↑ Art Parade Derek Forjour (en-US).
- ↑ Design, DSI. Luce Gallery.
- ↑ Eight Paintings - PAPILLION.
- ↑ UPPER ROOM - Derek Fordjour - Exhibitions - Robert Blumenthal Gallery.
- ↑ Wullschläger, Jackie (20 October 2020). "Derek Fordjour on painting the African-American experience". Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/fca5cf82-c83d-4bdc-9ef1-3aa067b86b2d.
- ↑ Steer, Emily (2020-10-16). Derek Fordjour Uses Sport as the Perfect Allegory for Organised Society (en-US).
- ↑ Germain, Jacqui (2020-06-03). Derek Fordjour Honors Disenfranchised Communities in His Vibrant, Layered Work (en).
- ↑ Wullschläger, Jackie (8 May 2020). "Painting crowds, or the lack of them, from Monet to Fordjour". Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/3f584610-8b90-11ea-a01c-a28a3e3fbd33.
- ↑ "Derek Fordjour: Shelter" at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (en-US) (January 2020).
- ↑ Henderson, Jane (17 January 2020). Beyond white walls: CAM exhibition examines 'what we all seek' (en).
- ↑ Wullschläger, Jackie (2019-09-26). Four exhibitions bring African American narratives to London (en-GB).
- ↑ Armstrong, Annie (2019-04-29). Petzel Gallery Now Represents Derek Fordjour (en-US).
- ↑ Derek Fordjour (en-US) (2019-03-05).
- ↑ Artist Derek Fordjour Revels in the Game Toppling Expectations As He Goes (en-US) (2019-02-15).
- ↑ Datebook: Paintings of sport and art inspired by convenience stores and confession (en-US) (2019-01-31).
- ↑ Crow, Kelly (2019-01-30). "'I Don't Want to Be a Blip': An Artist on the Rise Adjusts to the Spotlight" (en-US). Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-dont-want-to-be-a-blip-an-artist-on-the-rise-adjusts-to-the-spotlight-11548858955.
- ↑ 8 Art Advisors Tell Us Which Artists You Should Be Watching (and Buying) in 2019 (en-US) (2018-12-20).
- ↑ Historic Bequest: Late Arts Patron Peggy Cooper Cafritz Gifted 650+ Works of Art to the Studio Museum in Harlem and Duke Ellington School of the Arts (en-US) (10 October 2018).
- ↑ Price Check! Here's What Sold—and for How Much—at Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2018 (en-US) (2018-10-09).
- ↑ Tully, Judd (2018-10-03). Even as Brexit Looms, Galleries Notch Sales on Frieze London's Opening Day (en-US).
- ↑ 6 Innovators Shaping The Culture of NYC (en).
- ↑ Urbani, Shay (2018-05-25). Arts-centered New York Diversion Program for Youth Displays High Success Rate (en-US).
- ↑ Rodney, Seph (2018-05-05). Wandering the Artist Studios of Dumbo (en-US).
- ↑ Best of Zona Maco 2018 (en-US) (2018-02-11).
- ↑ Sussman, Anna Louie (2018-02-11). What Sold at Zona Maco (en).
- ↑ Rodney, Seph (2018-02-09). The Political Truths That Ground Our Athletic Heroes (en-US).
- ↑ Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair perks up, but is it enough? (31 January 2018).
- ↑ Rodney, Seph (2017-11-22). A Dreamy Carnival at the Children's Museum in Harlem (en-US).
- ↑ Evans, Kelley D. (2017-10-06). The portrait of an artist: Derek Fordjour dissects race, sports and culture (en-US).
- ↑ Artist Derek Fordjour's Immersive Wonderland Dedicated to Children (en-US) (2017-08-02).
- ↑ Sports Are a Metaphor for Inequality in These Colorful Paintings (en) (21 June 2017).
- ↑ Review: 'And There Is an End' -- but no end to its goofy appeal (en-US) (2015-03-21).
- ↑ Miranda, Carolina A. (15 January 2016). Datebook: Ceramic installations, Korean and American minimalism, punk-inspired pieces.
- ↑ Cotter, Holland (2015-11-19). "From Derek Fordjour, a Sense of Abandoned Ritual". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/20/arts/design/from-derek-fordjour-a-sense-of-abandoned-ritual.html.
- ↑ Pagel, David (21 March 2015). 'And There Is an End' -- but no end to its goofy appeal.
- ↑ DEREK FORDJOUR The Big Game (3 October 2014).
- ↑ Artist Derek Fordjour Has a Lesson for the Sports World • EBONY (en-US) (September 29, 2014).
- ↑ On the "A" w/Souleo: The Sports World Could Learn From Derek Fordjour's Artworks (2014-09-24).
- ↑ 40 amazing black artists to watch in 2014 (2014-01-03).