Jibade-Khalil Huffman is an artist and writer whose video and photo works use found, archival material and contemporary ephemera to address slippage in memory and language, particular to race and visibility. Lyrical strophes of text and densely-composed imagery produce objects of perpetual flux, indexed by accumulating layers which challenge normative symbolic and semiotic hierarchies. Through projection and repetition, Huffman’s work evokes the untranslatable, ruminating on the liminal qualities of singular experiences through narrative and graphic rhythms.
Upcoming exhibitions include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. Recent exhibitions include Tufts University Galleries, Ballroom Marfa, The Kitchen, MoCA Tucson, Swiss Institute, New York, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, The Jewish Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Hammer Museum. Educated at Bard College (BA), Brown University (MFA, Literary Arts), and USC (MFA, Studio Art), his awards include the Grolier Poetry Prize, the Jerome Foundation Travel Grant and fellowships from Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the Lighthouse Works, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Huffman was a 2015-16 Artist in Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem and lives and works in North Carolina and Los Angeles.
EXHIBITIONS
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me, January 11 – February 16, 2020.
Kush is My Cologne, January 21 – February 25, 2017.
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
- 2020
- Total Running Time, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
- Now That I Can Dance, Tufts University Art Gallery, Tufts University, Medford, MA
- 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
Group Exhibitions
- 2021
- Climate Changing, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
- 2020
- 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
- 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
- Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY
Video, color, sound 24 minutes 37 seconds Edition of 3, + 1 AP
Still
Video, color, sound 24 minutes 37 seconds Edition of 3, + 1 AP
Still
Glow Up, 2018
Transparency in lightbox
44 x 31 inches / 111.8 x 78.7 cm
C-print, framed 29 ½ x 44 ½ x 1 inches / 74.9 x 113 x 2.5 cm
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
Sculpture for Morgan Parker (A Tattoo of Harriet Tubman's Face With a Tattoo of Your Face on Harriet Tubman's Face on Your Face), 2018
Transparency in lightbox
77.25 x 41.5 x 5.5 inches / 196.2 x 105.4 x 14 cm
Sculpture for Morgan Parker (A Tattoo of Harriet Tubman's Face With a Tattoo of Your Face on Harriet Tubman's Face on Your Face), 2018
Transparency in lightbox
77.25 x 41.5 x 5.5 inches / 196.2 x 105.4 x 14 cm
Single channel video, color, sound 45 Minutes
Edition of 3
Good Company: Pt. 1, 2020, Anat Ebgi, Installation view
Good Company: Pt. 1, 2020, Anat Ebgi, Installation view
Inkjet print, framed 41.25 x 31.5 inches / 104.8 x 80 cm Edition of 3, 1 AP
Inkjet on transparency, framed 36 x 26.5 inches / 91.4 x 67.3 cm Edition of 3, 1 AP
Inkjet print, framed 27.5 x 22.25 inches / 69.9 x 56.5 cm Edition of 3, 1 AP
Inkjet print, framed 37.5 x 23.5 inches / 95.3 x 59.7 cm Edition of 3, 1 AP
Inkjet print, framed 36.25 x 24.5 inches / 92.1 x 62.2 cm Edition of 3, 1 AP
Inkjet print, framed 37.5 x 25.25 inches / 95.3 x 64.1 cm Edition of 3, 1 AP
Inkjet print, framed 22.5 x 15 inches / 57.2 x 38.1 cm Edition of 3, 1 AP
Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX, Installation view
Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX, Installation view
Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX, Installation view
Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX, Installation view
The Kitchen, New York, NY, Installation view
The Kitchen, New York, NY, Installation view
The Kitchen, New York, NY, Installation view
The Kitchen, New York, NY, Installation view
Untitled (Display), 2017
Inkjet and graphite on transparency and canvas
40 x 30 inches / 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Poems For Every Occasion, 2018
Single channel video, color, sound
Duration 20 minutes
Edition of 3, 1 AP
One Persons Anxiety Is Another Persons Anxiety (Martin B), 2018
Inkjet, acrylic and graphite on canvas
40 x 30 inches
Crisp-Ellert Museum, St. Augustine, FL, Installation view
GIF, 2013
Single channel video, sound, color
9 minutes, 18 seconds
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
White People Explain John Baldessari To Me, 2017
Transparency in powder coated metal lightbox
44 x 29.5 x 2.5 inches / 111.8 x 74.9 x 6.4 cm
Sculpture for LeVar Burton, 2017
Transparency, flatscreen monitor, powder coated metal frame, looping video
26.25 x 44.75 x 3.5 inches / 66.7 x 113.7 x 8.9 cm
The Mirror, 2017
Transparecies, die cut plexi, flatscreen monitor, powder coated metal frame, looping video
51.5 x 31.75 x 5 inches / 130.8 x 80.6 x 12.7 cm
By The Author of Another Country & Nobody Knows My Name, 2017
Transparency, wood, plexiglass, fluorescent lights
35 x 31 x 6 1/8 inches / 88.9 x 78.7 x 15.6 cm
Anat Ebgi, Installation view
Figuration (A), 2017
Single channel video, sound, color
20 minutes, 59 seconds
Edition of 3, 1 AP
Figuration (B), 2017
Single channel video, sound, color
36 minutes, 12 seconds
Edition of 3, 1 AP
Untitled (baggage), 2016
Archival inkjet print
53 5/8 x 29 7/8 inches
Edition of 3
Untitled (baggage) (detail), 2016
Archival inkjet print
53 5/8 x 29 7/8 inches
Edition of 3
Set, 2016
Inkjet on canvas
37 x 25 inches
Unique
Untitled (Office), 2016
Archival inkjet print
42 x 28 inches
Edition of 3
Picture For Nostalgia (All Time Top Five), 2016
Inkjet on canvas
42 ¼ x 27 ½ inches
Untitled (Monitor), 2015
Archival inkjet print
13 x 10 inches
Untitled (Ski), 2015
Archival inkjet print
30 x 20 inches
Untitled (Wallpaper), 2016
Inkjet on canvas
33 ¼ x 22 ¼ inches
Untitled (Kitchen), 2016
Inkjet on canvas
39 ½ x 24 ¼inches
Scene, 2016
Inkjet on canvas
26 ½ x 36 inches
Yesterday Our Love Went Into A Coma, 2011
video monitor, microphone, love poem
BIOGRAPHY
Jibade-Khalil Huffman is an artist and writer whose video and photo works use found, archival material and contemporary ephemera to address slippage in memory and language, particular to race and visibility. Lyrical strophes of text and densely-composed imagery produce objects of perpetual flux, indexed by accumulating layers which challenge normative symbolic and semiotic hierarchies. Through projection and repetition, Huffman’s work evokes the untranslatable, ruminating on the liminal qualities of singular experiences through narrative and graphic rhythms.
Upcoming exhibitions include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. Recent exhibitions include Tufts University Galleries, Ballroom Marfa, The Kitchen, MoCA Tucson, Swiss Institute, New York, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, The Jewish Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Hammer Museum. Educated at Bard College (BA), Brown University (MFA, Literary Arts), and USC (MFA, Studio Art), his awards include the Grolier Poetry Prize, the Jerome Foundation Travel Grant and fellowships from Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the Lighthouse Works, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Huffman was a 2015-16 Artist in Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem and lives and works in North Carolina and Los Angeles.
EXHIBITIONS
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me, January 11 – February 16, 2020.
Kush is My Cologne, January 21 – February 25, 2017.
CV
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
- 2020
- Total Running Time, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
- Now That I Can Dance, Tufts University Art Gallery, Tufts University, Medford, MA
- 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
Group Exhibitions
- 2021
- Climate Changing, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
- 2020
- 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
- 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
- Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY