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Jibade-Khalil Huffman

Jibade-Khalil Huffman

1981
Born in Detroit, MI

Education

2013
MFA, Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2005
MFA, Graduate Program in Literary Arts, Brown University, Providence, RI
2003
BA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY

Solo and Two Person Shows, Performances, Screenings

2022
Brief Emotion, Frac Bretagne, Rennes, FR
Parallax Distance, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
2021
You Are Here, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC
An Evening with Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Modern Modays Series, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2020
Total Running Time, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
Now That I Can Dance, Tufts University Art Gallery, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Frieze Projects LA, curated Rita Gonzalez and Pilar Tompkins Rivas
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Confessional Poetry, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
Confessional Poetry, curated by Lumi Tam, Frieze Los Angeles, CA
Human For Scale, Art Space Gallery, Fresno City College, Fresno, CA
Confessional Poetry, KADIST, San Francisco, CA
2018
Tempo, The Kitchen, New York, NY
The Way You Make Me Feel, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
_______________ Means I Love You in Italics, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
Poems For Every Occasion, KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY
EXPO Chicago, with Anat Ebgi, Chicago, IL
We Don’t Need Another Mural, KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY
Stanza, curated by Daniel Fuller, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
Black Twitter in the Hour of Chaos, HOUSING, Brooklyn, NY
Nightschool/Schoolnight, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
Defending Kanye West, KADIST, San Francisco, CA
A Tondo For Rajon Rondo, curated by Julie Dickover, Crisp-Ellert Museum, St. Augustine, FL
2017
Solo Presentation, Art Basel Miami Beach, with Anat Ebgi, Miami, FL
Figuration, Downstairs Project, Brooklyn, NY
Kush is my Cologne, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Verse Chorus Verse, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
What Can I Say About This Suit (That Hasn’t Already Been Said About Afghanistan?), LAXART, Los Angles, CA
2015
Come and Go: Jibade Khalil Huffman, MANTRA (commissioned by A.L. Steiner), Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Jibade-Khalil Huffman in collaboration with Claudia Rankine: The Discrepancies, Museum as Retail Space, Los Angeles, CA
Anthony Pearson and Jibade-Khalil Huffman: Third Person, Marianne Boesky East, New York, NY
We Don’t Believe You, You Need More People, Marianne Boesky East, New York, NY
2013
The Four People You Meet At Every Drug Deal, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Lake Overturn, Pacific Standard Time Presents: The Machine Project Field Guide to L.A. Architecture, The Santa Monica Screening Room, Santa Monica, CA
Niagara, USC Roski Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
A Novella and Stories, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
2012
The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley: A Reading, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
We Don’t Believe You, You Need More People (with Martine Syms), Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA
Cameron Crawford and Jibade-Khalil Huffman: Double Jointed, curated by Megha Ratapali, Scaramouche, New York, NY
2011
Teen Wolf/Teen Wolf Too, Mt. Tremper Arts, Mt. Tremper, NY
NOWHERE, The Home Of, Brooklyn, NY (with Eliza Newman-Saul)
Slow Reveal, or, Negro Twist Ending Where You Are Really A Negro, The Tank, New York, NY
2010
Monster Island Czar, MoMA/P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
2008
Xaviera Simmons and Jibade-Khalil Huffman: Oscillations (For A Minute There I Lost Myself), Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
2003
You Just Have To Go Down A Flight of Stairs, Woods Gallery, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022
";", Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA
If I Had a Hammer, FotoFest Biennial, Houston, TX
The Painter’s New Tools, Nahmad Contemporary, New York, NY
Reckoning and Resilience: North Carolina Art Now, NASHER Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
Twenty-first Century Occupational Adjustments and Considerations, Episode 6: Ok Computer, Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick, New York, NY and Basel, CH
2021
Radical Empahty, Compound, Long Beach, CA
Climate Changing, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
2020
IN LIEU OF AN OCEAN (SEND FLOWERS), Time Based Art Festival 2020, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
TENENT, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
Good Company: Pt. 1, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Smoke and Mirrors, there-there Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
To Sight’s Limit, Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, WI
Representation and Poetics (in Double Takes: Historic and Contemporary Film + Video), Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
C.R.E.A.M. (curated by Sable Elyse Smith), The Highline, New York, NY
I Don’t Believe in Art, I Believe in Artists, LX Arts, New York, NY
The Conversation, Anat Ebgi at Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2018
Re:Framed, Re: Art Show, Brooklyn, NY
A Recounting: Data, Disinformation & Black Experience, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Moving Body, Moving Study, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
Screenscapes, Galeria Nara Roesler, Sao Paolo, BR
Reclamation! Pan-African Works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
WE DON’T NEED ANOTHER MURAL (public art project), KMAC Museum/The Wheelhouse Project, Louisville, KY
Lunar Intervals (performance), Swiss Institute, New York, NY
Defending Kanye West (performance), Poetry Project, New York, NY
2017
Speech/Acts, ICA, Philadelphia, PA
Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
To A Body, Shoot the Lobster, New York, NY
Now More Than Always (Gimme Gimme The Money Please Please I Want the Money Please), Gildar Gallery, Denver, CO
COMM/ALT/SHIFT, Aljira, Newark, NJ
Storefront: THIS KNOWN WORLD: Spontaneous Particulars of the Poetic Research Bureau, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
I can call this progess to halt, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Art Los Angeles Contemporary, with Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Tenses: Artists-in-Residence 2015-16, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Against the Romance of Community, Swiss Institute, New York, New York
Take Me (I’m Yours), The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Dead End Looped: Emily Davidson, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Pilot Projects, Philadelphia, PA
Beware of a Holy Whore, Ida Schmid, New York, NY
2015
The Vault: Deeper Structures, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH
This Sentence, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
On Discipline (LA), 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA
Pictures of the Moon With Teeth, TBA:15, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Edible Planets/Soylent Dialogues, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA
Altarations: Built, Blended, Processed, Ritter Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
2014
Made in L.A. 2014, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Step and Repeat, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Rhetoric, Aran Cravey, Los Angeles, CA
Rockaway!, MoMA/P.S.1/Rockaway Surf Club, New York, NY
The Machine Project Guide to the Gamble House, Pasadena, CA
2013
The Reanimation Library, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
The Stand In, Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA
2012
New Wight Biennial 2012, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Act 2: The Props, Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Pixelating: Black in New Dimensions, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, Brooklyn, NY
Le Mots et Les Choses (Words and Things): An Evening With Future Plan and Program, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
So Much I Want to Say: Future Plan and Program, Houston Museum of African-American Culture, Houston, TX
The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 2, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
2010
I Forgot My Mantra, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY
Manual Transmission, Bush Gardens Rooftop, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Wrong: A Program of Text and Image, Eighth Veil, Los Angeles, CA (curator)
2007
Game Bird Sampler, White Box Annex, New York, NY

Publications – Books

2015
Sleeper Hold, Fence Books
2011
James Brown Is Dead, Future Plan and Program
2009
After Stanley Donen, Eighth Veil (editor)
2008
19 Names For Our Band, Fence Books

Publications – Journals, Magazines, Chapbooks and Anthologies

2018
One Star Press, Forthcoming
Triple Canopy, Forthcoming
2017
MANTRA, Downstairs Projects (chapbook)
2016
Third Rail, “POSTBELLUM” (poem)
The Brooklyn Rail, “Stop me if you’ve heard this one…” (essay)
2014
Baumtest, “Untitled (Thriller),” “Diet Needles,” (photographs)
2013
The & Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing Vol. 2, Lake Forrest College Press from “Niagara”
2012
Everyday Genius, “Now That I Can Dance”
Night Papers, “Poem for Cedric the Entertainer”

Selected Awards

2021
Residency, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH
2020
Residency, Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2019
Residency, Surf Point Foundation, York, ME
2018-2019
Residency, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA
2018
Residency, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2017
Fellowship, The Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, New York, NY
2015-2016
Artist-in-Residence, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2014
Emerging Artist Fellowship, California Community Foundation
2010-2011
Artist-in-Residence, Workspace, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
2010
Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant
2009
Jerome Foundation Fellowship/Residency, Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Red Wing, MN
2008
Residency, Ucross Foundation for the Arts, Clearmont, WY
2007
Residency, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
2004
Grolier Poetry Prize
2001
Photography Advisory Board Scholarship, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Selected Press

2020
Tan, Lumi. "That Feeling When: Jibade-Khalil Huffman," Mousse Magazine. Spring 2020, Issue 71. (Link)
Robinson, Leanna. "Review: Jibade-Khalil Huffman," Artillery. March 3, 2020. (Link)
Rawles, Erica. "Frieze Los Angeles Excavates the City’s Multilayered Stories," KCET. February 12, 2020. (Link)
Stromberg, Matt. "Hollywood Myths and Latinx Art Histories at LA’s Frieze Projects," Hyperallergic. February 10, 2020. (Link)
Alcalá, Marcel. "If Identity’s Kaleidoscopic, Let’s Loop It," Flaunt. January 2020. (Link)
2019
Smith, Melissa, "Young Black Artists Are More in Demand Than Ever – But the Art World Is Burning Them Out," artnet, April 29
Durón, Maximiliano. "15 Los Angeles Artists to Watch," Artnews, January 9, 2019.
2018
Schneider, Tim. "6 Emerging Artists to Seek Out During Art Basel Miami Beach This Week," Artnews. December 4, 2018. (Link)
Schwendener, Martha. "What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week," New York Times, November 28, 2018. (Link)
Keel, Eli, "Loud, disruptive, beautiful: mixed-media ‘Poems for Every Occasion’ exhibit lands at KMAC," Insider Louisville, August 26, 2018. (Link)
Brown, Daniel A., “Beyond Language: Jibade-Khalil Huffman at Crisp-Ellert Museum,” Burnaway, February 20, 2018.
Larmon, Annie Godfrey, "12 Emerging Artists to Watch This Year," Modern Painters, January-February 2018.
2017
Vartanian, Hrag, “Best of 2017: Our Top 20 Exhibitions Across the United States,” Hyperallergic, December 21, 2017.
Nihal, Mariam, "Highlights from Art Basel in Miami," The Saudi Gazette, December 15, 2017. (Link)
“5 new things to see and do at Art Basel 2017,” South Florida Business Journal, December 6, 2017. (Link)
Carrigan, Margaret and Casey Lesser, "18 New Dealers to Watch at Art Basel Miami Beach," Artsy, December 3, 2017. (Link)
Shaw, Anny, “Race relations in the spotlight at Art Basel in Miami Beach,” The Art Newspaper, December 1, 2017. (Link)
Gerlis, Melanie, “Art on its sleeve,” The Financial Times, December 1, 2017.
"Positions Sector at Art Basel Miami Beach," Blouin Artinfo, November 28, 2017. (Link)
“‘Speech/Acts’ at Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia,” Blouin ArtInfo, September 25, 2017. (Link)
Rinalidi, Mark Ray, “Who Owns Blackness and Who Can Sell It,” One Good Eye, July 17, 2017.
Boyd, Kealey, "Now More Than Always," Artillery Magazine, June 27, 2017. (Link)
Wymam, Chloe, “Jibade-Khalil Huffman: Downstairs Projects,” Artforum Critic’s Pick, June 16, 2017.
Nicole Kim, Hyunjee, “Jibade-Khalil Huffman: Kush is my Cologne at Anat Ebgi,” Daily Serving, February 13, 2017. (Link)
"Kush is My Cologne," Wall Street International, January 28, 2017. (Link)
“Anat Ebgi Gallery Presents Jibade-Khalil Huffman ‘Kush is My Cologne,’” Fabrik, January 19, 2017. (Link)
2016
Donovan, Thom, “Artists on Artists: Jibade-Khalil Huffman by Thom Donavan,” BOMB Magazine, Winter 2016.
Kaack, Nicole, “Jibade-Khalil Huffman In Conversation with Nicole Kaack,” NYAQ, Issue 6. (Link)
Korman, Sam, “First Look,” Art In America, October 2016.
Cotter, Holland, “What to See In New York Galleries This Week,” New York Times, Sept. 15, 2016. (Link)
Sargent, Antwaun, “Meet Harlem’s Newest Artists-in-Residence,” The Creators Project, Aug. 6, 2016. (Link)
Piejko, Jennifer, “Critic’s Guide: Los Angeles,” Frieze.com, July 28, 2016. (Link)
Elbaor, Caroline & Boucher, Brian, “9 Emerging Artists You Need to Know About Right Now,” Artnet, July 28, 2016. (Link)
Gotthardt, Alexxa, “15 Artists in Summer Group Shows Who Deserve Solo Shows,” Artsy, July 25, 2016.
Bradley, Paige K. (as told to), “500 Words,” Artforum.com, June 28, 2016.
2015
Preston, Oliver, “Staff Picks,” Paris Review Blog, July 17
Pagel, David, “Head trip in ‘the pit’: Video and installation art deliver a strange and playful journey,” L.A. Times, December 29, 2015. (Link)
Sharp, Sarah Rose, “An Art Festival that Unfolds in Real Time,” Hyperallergic, September 18, 2015. (Link)
Tannatt, Mateo, “Mateo Tannatt Photographs Jibade-Khalil Huffman,” CARLA, Issue 1.
Whitehead, Anne Martine, “The Unmooring of Jibade-Khalil Huffman,” Art Practical, Apr. 16, 2015.
Kim, Deanna, “15 Young Black Artists Making Waves in the Art World,” Complex, Feb. 3, 2015.
2014
Vogel, Wendy, “25 Artists to Watch,” Modern Painters, December 2014.
Guthery, Summer, “Made in LA,” Frieze Magazine, November 2014.
Cuthbert, Robert, “Best Up-And-Coming Visual Artists in Los Angeles,” CBS Los Angeles, Apr. 14, 2014.
2013
Wolf, Kate, “Drug Dealing With Jibade-Khalil Huffman,” NY Arts Magazine, Nov. 5, 2013.
Donoghue, Katie, “Material Obsession at Untitled,” Whitewall, Dec. 4, 2013.
Berardini, Andrew. “Fall Preview: New Skin for an Old Ceremony,” Artslant, Sept. 10, 2013.
Darling, Nikki, “The Ephemeral Texts of Jibade-Khalil Huffman,” KCET Artbound, Sept. 6, 2013.
Torres, Jesus Manuel Rojas, “The Four People You Meet At Every Drug Deal by Jibade-Khalil Huffman,” What’s Up Miami: An Online Journal of the Arts.
2012
Tuck, Geoff, “The End of the New World (and) Sculpture for Jeffrey Tambor,” Notes on Looking, 2012.
Laluyan, Oscar A., “Crawford & Huffman: Double Express-O,” Arte Fuse, 2012.
2011
Leopold, Rebecca, “Explosive Fragments: Poems and Photographs,” PBS Art:21 Blog, 2011.
2009
Berardini, Andrew, “Word Problems,” review of “Wrong: A Program of Text and Image,” ArtSlant, 2009.
Price, Brett, review of “19 Names For Our Band,” The Octopus Magazine, 2009.
2008
“Honor Roll,” Spin Magazine, 2008.
2006
Devun, Leah, Review of Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, Art Lies, 2006.

Collections

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Kadist, San Francisco, CA / Paris, France
Pierce & Hill Harper Arts Foundation, Detroit, MI
Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY
Tufts University Art Gallery
Zabludowicz Collection