NYEEMA MORGAN

Nyeema Morgan earned a B.F.A. from the Cooper Union School of Art, New York and an M.F.A. from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco. Morgan’s solo exhibitions include the Staniar Gallery at Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia; the Rotunda Gallery/BRIC Arts Media Bklyn, Brooklyn; The Bindery Projects, St. Paul, Minnesota; and Art in General, New York. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at The Drawing Center, New York; the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine; the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Grant Wahlquist Gallery and Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Paris. Morgan’s work is in the collections of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine, and the Menil Collection, Houston (in collaboration with william cordova and Otabenga Jones and Associates). She has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; Shandanken Projects at Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York; the Lower East Side Print Shop, New York; The Drawing Center; and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Program. She is a recipient of a Painters and Sculptors grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and an Art Matters grant.