MEET THE ARTIST
Jamea Richmond-Edwards
Born 1982, Detroit, MI
Lives and works in Detroit, MI
Jamea Richmond-Edwards was born and raised in Detroit, MI where she currently resides. She studied painting and drawing at Jackson State University in Jackson, MS before earning an MFA from Howard University in 2012.
In her artistic journey, she delves into the rich tapestry of culture and mythology, skillfully crafting narratives that probe the very essence of our reality. Through the medium of self-portraiture, she embarks on a profound quest for self-liberation portraying heroines who embody the relentless pursuit of understanding in our enigmatic world. Influenced by the aesthetics of Africobra and nurtured by her education at Howard University, she creates vibrant monumental epics that invite viewers to immerse themselves in her artistic odyssey.
In 2019, she was honored with the Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, leading to a residency in 2020. She has exhibited works at the El Segundo Museum of Art, Rubell Family Museum, Brooklyn Art Museum, California African American Museum, Frist Art Museum and Houston Museum of Fine Art.
“It really just speaks to how important the mind is, and ensuring that not only with our children, but within ourselves, we have the space and capacity to dream. I'm operating in a space right above reality, in the unseen, the imaginable and I'm comfortable with that space.”
-Jamea Richmond-Edward
EDUCATION
2012 MFA, Howard University, Washington, DC
2004 BFA, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS
2003 Art Residency, Tougaloo Art Colony, Tougaloo, MS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Forthcoming, Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, NY
2023 Ancient Future, MOCA, North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
2022 Currency, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
Currency, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI
We're A Wonder: Perspectives of Black Experience, Dr. William R. Harvey Museum of Art
2020 Twenty Twenty, South Bend Musueum of Art, South Bend, IN
2019 7 Mile Girls, Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ
Prom Night, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
Stay Fly, CulturalDC, Washington, DC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Multiplicity: Collage in Contemporary America, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
2023 Multiplicity: Collage in Contemporary America, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN
Skilled Labor: Black Realism in Detroit, Bloomfield Hills, MI
PRESENT ’23: Building the Scantland Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, Brooklyn Museum, NY, California
African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Terms & Conditions, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
2021 Experience 49: blue/s, ESMoA, El Segundo, CA
SITE: Michigan Central Station, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI
On The Road: Chocolate Cities, Tone Memphis, Memphis, TN
2020 Rentrée, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
Young Artist: One, Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
Auguries of Innocence, Frederick’s & Freiser, New York, NY
CHRONICLES VOL. 2, Galerie Droste, Wuppertal, Germany
Fragmented Bodies, Albertz Benda Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Summer Fling, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
