Damali Abrams
{{Short description|Guyanese-American video-performance artist}}
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Damali Abrams (born in Guyana{{cite web|title=Damali Abrams|url=http://www.blouinartinfo.com/artists/227343-damali-abrams|website=Blouin Art Info|accessdate=12 April 2015}}) is a Guyanese-American video-performance artist who lives and works in New York City. She is known for the Self-Help TV, an ongoing video-performance project using her own body to examine issues of self-improvement, race, class and gender.
Career
Abrams graduated New York University as a Bachelor of Arts in 2001 and obtained a master's degree in fine arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2008. Her work has been exhibited at galleries including The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (MoCADA), El Museo del Barrio, A.I.R. Gallery, BRIC Rotunda Gallery and the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning.{{cite web|title=Damali Abrams Exhibitions|url=http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/47434-damali-abrams?tab=EXHIBITS|website=Art Slant|accessdate=12 April 2015}}
=Teaching and workshops=
Abrams has led classes at Barbados Community College, the Grenada National Museum, the Borough of Manhattan Community College, Hunter College School of Social Work, SUNY Purchase, Syracuse University’s 601 Tully and at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering.{{cite web|title=apexart|url=http://www.apexart.org/residency/abrams.php|website=Damali Abrams Residency|accessdate=12 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140710044821/http://www.apexart.org/residency/abrams.php|archive-date=10 July 2014|url-status=dead}}
=Residencies=
- 2019: Creative-in-Residence at The Brooklyn Public Library{{Cite web|date=2019-11-21|title=Brooklyn Public Library Launches Creative-In-Residence Program with Artist William Kentridge Inaugural Cohort of Creatives-In-Residence Includes Artists, Musicians, Scientists, Writers, and Architects|url=https://www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/brooklyn-public-library-50|access-date=2020-10-18|website=www.bklynlibrary.org|language=en-us}}
- 2016: Independent Study Program at The Whitney Museum of American Art{{Cite web|title=Opening Reception: Whitney Independent Study Studio Program Exhibition|url=https://whitney.org/Events/2016StudioProgramExhibition|access-date=2020-10-18|website=whitney.org|language=en}}
- July 2014: Apexart’s Outbound Residency to Seoul{{cite web|title=apexart|url=http://www.apexart.org/fellowship/abrams.php|website=Damali Abrams Fellowship|accessdate=12 April 2015}}
- 2014: Artist in Residence at The Center for Book Arts{{cite web|title=Artists in Residence|url=http://centerforbookarts.org/event/2014-artists-in-residence/|website=Center for Book Arts|accessdate=12 April 2015|archive-date=30 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830020800/https://centerforbookarts.org/event/2014-artists-in-residence/|url-status=dead}}
- October 2013: Residency with Groundation Grenada and Fresh Milk in Barbados{{cite web|title=Fresh Milk and Groundation Grenada Welcome Damali Abrams|url=http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2013/09/fresh-milk-and-groundation-grenada-welcome-damali-abrams/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419023518/http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2013/09/fresh-milk-and-groundation-grenada-welcome-damali-abrams/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=April 19, 2015|website=Arc the Magazine|accessdate=12 April 2015}}
References
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External links
- [https://damaliabrams.wordpress.com/ Damali Abram's Website]
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Category:American video artists
Category:Artists from New York City
Category:Guyanese women artists
Category:New York University alumni
Category:Vermont College of Fine Arts alumni
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:21st-century American women artists
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