BIOGRAPHY

Jibade-Khalil Huffman’s photo works are experimentations relating archives and collage to nostalgia and memory. They are made by layering scanned fragments of found magazines, encyclopedias, and instruction manuals which are then cut away, layer by layer, section by section, to produce a new composition. While indebted to painting, drawing and collage, their output as photographs is key, as the scanning process allows for a parsing of the material of paper in its various stages of aging as opposed to a representation of this.

 

EXHIBITIONS

Kush is My Cologne, January 21 – February 25, 2016.

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Born 1981 in Detroit, Michigan. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. 

 

EDUCATION

MFA, Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

2013

MFA, Graduate Program in Literary Arts, Brown University, Providence, RI

  2005

BA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2003

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES AND SCREENINGS

Figuration, Downstairs, Brooklyn, NY

Kush is My Cologne, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA

2017

Verse Chorus Verse, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

What Can I Say About That Suit (That Hasn’t Already Been Said About Afghanistan), LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA

2016

 Come and Go: Jibade Khalil Huffman, MANTRA (commissioned by A.L. Steiner), Blum and Poe, 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

The Discrepancies, Museum as Retail Space, Los Angeles, CA

2015 

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

2013

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

2012

Teen Wolf/Teen Wolf Too, Mt. Tremper Arts, Mt. Tremper, NY

NOWHERE, The Home Of, (with Eliza Newman-Saul) Brooklyn, NY

Slow Reveal, or, Negro Twist Ending Where You Are Really A Negro, The Tank, New York, NY

2011

Monster Island Czar, MoMA/P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY

2010

Xaviera Simmons and Jibade-Khalil Huffman: Oscillations (For A Minute There I Lost Myself), Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY

2008

 You Just Have To Go Down A Flight of Stairs, Woods Gallery, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2003

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Art Los Angeles Contemporary, with Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA

2017

 

Tenses: Artists-in-Residence 2015-16, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

Against the Romance of Community, Swiss Institute, New York, NY

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

2016

Pictures of the Moon With Teeth, TBA:15, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

Edible Planets/Soylent Dialogues, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA

This Sentence, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA

The Vault: Deeper Structures, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH

On Discipline (LA), 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA

Altarations: Built, Blended, Processed, Ritter Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

2015

 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

2014

The Reanimation Library, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA

The Stand In, Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA

2013

New Wight Biennial 2012, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Act 2: The Props, Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA

2012

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

2011

 I Forgot My Mantra, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY

Manual Transmission, Bush Gardens Rooftop, Brooklyn, NY

2010

Wrong: A Program of Text and Image, Eighth Veil, Los Angeles, CA (curator)

2009

Game Bird Sampler, White Box Annex, New York, NY

2007

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Sleeper Hold, Fence Books

2015

 James Brown Is Dead, Future Plan and Program

2011

After Stanley Donen, Eighth Veil (editor)

2009

19 Names For Our Band, Fence Books

2008

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Journals, Magazines, Chapbooks and Anthologies

Third Rail, “POSTBELLUM,” (poem)

The Brooklyn Rail “Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One…” (essay)

2016

Baumtest, “Untitled (Thriller),” “Diet Needles,” (photographs)

 2014

The & Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing Vol. 2, Lake Forrest College Press from “Niagara”

2013 

Everyday Genius, “Now That I Can Dance”

Night Papers, “Poem for Cedric the Entertainer”

2012

 

SELECTED AWARDS

Artist-in-Residence, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

2015-16

Emerging Artist Fellowship, California Community Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

2014 

 Artist-in-Residence, Workspace, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY

2010-11

Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant

2010 

Jerome Foundation Fellowship/Residency, Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Red Wing, Mn

2009

Residency, Ucross Foundation for the Arts, Clearmont, WY

2008

Residency, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY

2007

Grolier Poetry Prize

2004

Photography Advisory Board Scholarship, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2001

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Wyma, Chloe, “Jibade-Khalil Huffman at Downstair’s Projects,” ArtForum, June 16, 2017

Nicole Kim, Hyunjee, “Jibade-Khalil Huffman: Kush is my Cologne at Anat Ebgi,” Daily Serving, February 13, 2017

“Kush is My Cologne,” Wall Street International, January 28, 2017

“Anat Ebgi Gallery Presents Jibade-Khalil Huffman ‘Kush is My Cologne,’” Fabrik, January 19, 2017

2017

Donovan, Thom, “Artists on Artists: Jibade-Khalil Huffman by Thom Donavan,” BOMB Magazine, Winter 2017

Kaack, Nicole, “Jibade-Khalil Huffman In Conversation with Nicole Kaack,” NYAQ, Issue 6    Korman, Sam, “First Look,” Art In America, October

Cotter, Holland, “What to See In New York Galleries This Week,” New York Times, Sept. 15

Sargent, Antwaun, “Meet Harlem’s Newest Artists-in-Residence,” The Creators Project, Aug. 6

Piejko, Jennifer, “Critic’s Guide: Los Angeles,” Frieze.com, July 28

Elbaor, Caroline & Boucher, Brian, “9 Emerging Artists You Need to Know About Right Now,” Artnet, July 28

Gotthardt, Alexxa, “15 Artists in Summer Group Shows Who Deserve Solo Shows,” Artsy, July 25

Bradley, Paige K. (as told to), “500 Words,” Artforum.com, June 28

2016

 Pagel, David, “Head Trip in ‘The Pit,’” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 29

Preston, Oliver, “Staff Picks,” Paris Review Blog, July 17

Tannatt, Mateo, “Mateo Tannatt Photographs Jibade-Khalil Huffman,” CARLA, Issue 1

Whitehead, Anne Martine, “The Unmooring of Jibade-Khalil Huffman,” Art Practical, Apr. 16

Kim, Deanna, “15 Young Black Artists Making Waves in the Art World,” Complex, Feb. 3

2015

Vogel, Wendy, “25 Artists to Watch,” Modern Painters, December

Guthery, Summer, “Made in LA,” Frieze Magazine, November

Cuthbert, Robert, “Best Up-And-Coming Visual Artists in Los Angeles,” CBS Los Angeles, Apr. 14

2014

 Wolf, Kate, “Drug Dealing With Jibade-Khalil Huffman,” NY Arts Magazine, Nov. 5

Donoghue, Katie, “Material Obsession at Untitled,” Whitewall, Dec. 4

Berardini, Andrew. “Fall Preview: New Skin for an Old Ceremony,” Artslant, Sept. 10

Darling, Nikki, “The Ephemeral Texts of Jibade-Khalil Huffman,” KCET Artbound, Sept. 6

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

2013

 Tuck, Geoff, “The End of the New World (and) Sculpture for Jeffrey Tambor,” Notes on Looking

Laluyan, Oscar A., “Crawford & Huffman: Double Express-O,” Arte Fuse

2012

Leopold, Rebecca, “Explosive Fragments: Poems and Photographs,” PBS Art:21 Blog

2011

 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

“Honor Roll,” Spin Magazine

2008