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From her website 6/20/2016: http://www.nyeemamorgan.com/cv/ BIO & STATEMENT: Nyeema Morgan (born 1977, Philadelphia, PA) is a New York based visual artist. Her work has been included in exhibitions at The Drawing Center, NY; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Art in General, NY; Abrons Art Center, NY; The Bindery Projects, MN; South Hill Park Arts Center, Bracknell, UK; Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Paris, France; and the CSS Bard Galleries/ Bard College, NY. Morgan's awards and residencies include an Art Matters Grant, NY; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace residency, NY; AIRspace Program residency, Abrons Arts Center, NY; and the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, ME. Her works have been included in The Wall Street Journal, Time Out NY and The New York Times. Morgan earned an MFA from California College of the Arts and a BFA from Cooper Union School of Art. Morgan's art practice is developed within an interdisciplinary framework that explores the personal and cultural economy of knowledge through familiar artifacts. Her works, whether project based or singular, are inspired by philosophical conflicts presented in our everyday encounters with images, objects and information. Morgan investigates how these artifacts are consumed, processed, re-presented and reiterated. Her investigations, often on-going, are executed by rupturing the formal and structural gravitas of these artifacts, in an attempt to dig deeper towards an epistemological core. Morgan's works, which have included large-scale drawings, installations, clay work, sculpture and printed matter, call to question information’s conceptual and hierarchical value, challenge the boundaries of authoritative reasoning as well as make evident her own implications within a larger socio-political drama. EDUCATION: 2009, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME 2007, MFA, California College of the Arts, Painting & Drawing Dept., San Francisco, CA 2000, BFA, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY 1996, Non-degree, Department of Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2016, Washington & Lee University, I, Rhinoceros, Lexington, VA 2013, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Forty-Seven Easy Poundcakes Like grandma Use To Make, Brooklyn, NY 2012, The Bindery Projects, The Dubious Sum of Vaguely Discernable Parts, Minneapolis, MN 2011, Art in General/ Musée Miniscule, You Are Here. This Is Now., New York, NY 2010, John Jay College Gallery, Like It Is, John Jay College of Criminal Justice/ CUNY, New York, NY GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2015, The Drawing Center, Name It by Trying to Name It: Open Sessions 2014-2015, New York, NY 2015, Ortega y Gasset, love child, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Eleanna Anagnos 2015, The Drawing Center, Open Sessions 3, New York, NY 2015, CSS Bard Galleries/ Bard College, Signal from Noise, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, curated by Elisabeth Larison 2015, SPRING/ BREAK Art Show, A Chorus of Objects, New York, NY, curated by Krista Saunders Scenna 2015, Smack Mellon, RESPOND, Brooklyn, NY 2014, Miami Dade College/ North Campus Art Gallery, the past is more infinite that the future, Miami, FL, curated by william cordova 2014, Tuck Under Projects, doubleplusgood, Minneapolis, MN, curated by Caroline Kent 2014, The Drawing Center, The Intuitionists, New York, NY 2014, Kala Art Institute, Belewe, Berkeley, CA, curated by Amanda Curreri 2014, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Shadows Took Shape, in collaboration with William Cordova & Otebenga Jones & Associates, curated by Naima J. Keith & Zoe Whitley 2013, Industry City, Come Together: Surviving Sandy: Year 1, Brooklyn NY, curated by Phong Bui 2013, Hal Bromm Gallery, Lost & Found Part II, New York, NY curated by Fran Holstrom 2013, Artspace, Toonskin, New Haven, CT, curated by Kenya Robinson 2013, The Shiva Gallery at John Jay College, History! Hauntings and Palimpsests, New York, NY 2013, DECENTER: Network, decenterarmory.com, curated by Andrianna Campbell & Daniel S. Palmer 2013, Arts Incubator, Feedback, Chicago, IL, curated by Allison Glenn 2013, Carol Jazzar Gallery, Collinear Points, Miami, FL 2012, Soft-spot, The System, soft-spot.net, curated by Ryan Feeney 2012, Museum of African and Diasporan Arts (MOCADA), NEWSFEED: Anonymity & Social Media in African Revolutions and Beyond, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Jessica L. Moore and Nelson Nance 2012, New York Photo Festival 2012, What Do You Believe In? , New York, NY, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart 2012, South Hill Park Arts Centre, At Play 4, Bracknell, UK (traveling to OVADA, Oxford, UK and New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, UK), curated by Cally Trench and Dr. Outi Remes 2012, Artspace, Our Daily Rite, New Haven, CT, curated by Meredith Miller 2012, Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Projet Gutenberg, Paris, France 2011, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, Dirty Sensibilities: A 21st Century Exploration of the New American Black South, New York, NY, curated by Shantrelle P. Lewis 2011, Abrons Arts Center/ Henry Street Settlement, Airspace 2011, New York, NY 2011, 224 Washington Ave, Why is this here?, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Jenny Saloman 2011, Abrons Arts Center/ Henry Street Settlement, It’s You Today, New York, NY, curated by Adrian Saldana 2010, New York Artist Residency & Studios Foundation (NARS), Ready Set Create, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Eun Young Choi 2010, VerySmallKitchen & Pigeon Wing Gallery, The Festival of Nearly Invisible Publishing, London, UK, curated by David Berridge 2010, Convent of Saint Cecilia, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Brooklyn, NY 2009, Aljira: A Contemporary Art Center, Emerge 10, Newark, NJ , curated by Sara Reisman 2009, Romer Young Gallery (formerly Ping Pong Gallery), Live + Direct, San Francisco, CA, curated by Amanda Curreri 2008, John Jay College Gallery, Faculty Exhibition, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY 2007, Temporary Autonomous Museum, Artists Go Lightly, San Francisco, CA California College of the Arts, MFA Thesis Exhibition, San Francisco, CA, curated by Glen Helfand 2007, FAB Gallery, VCA/CCA Exchange Exhibition, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 2007, Supermarket 2007, Koh-I-Noor, Stockholm, Sweden 2006, Playspace Gallery, All That Remains, San Francisco, CA 2000, Cooper Union School of Art, Senior Exhibition, New York, NY AWARDS & RESIDENCIES: 2015- '16 Smack Mellon Residency Program, Brooklyn, NY 2013 Art Matters Foundation Grant, New York, NY 2013 - '14, Lower Manhattan Workspace Residency, New York, NY 2012, Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York, NY 2010 - ’11, AIRspace Program, Abrons Arts Center/ Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY 2009, Camille Hanks- Cosby Scholarship, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME 2009, Wheeler Foundation Grant, New York, NY 2007, Emerge 10, Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ 2007, Denis Leon Award, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2007, Daedelus Award Nominee, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2007, Richard Price Scholarship, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2006, Merit Scholarship, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA 1996, Full Tuition Scholarship, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, New York PRESS & PUBLICATIONS: 2015, Choi, Eun Young. "Donuts and Coffee", Culturehall. March 4. 2015, Meier, Allison. "Jam-Packed Spring/Break Art Show Pulls into Moynihan Station", Hyperallergic. March 4. 2014, "Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1", Daedelus Foundation, exhibition catalogue. 2013, Cotter, Holland. "Going Beyond Blackness, Into the Starry Skies", The New York Times. November 14. 2013, Rosenberg, Karen. "The Future is African, The New York Times". November 8. 2013, Clark, Abigail. "A Chat Over Pound Cake: Nyeema Morgan Reflects on "Forty Seven Easy Poundcakes"", BRIC Blog, BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn. April 22. 2013, Bortolot, Lana. "Culture Count: How Do We Love Cake? Let Us Count the Ways", The Wall Street Journal. April 18. 2013, Dempster, Heike. "Collinear Points" Review, Miami Art Zine. March 15. 2013, "Collinear Points | Carol Jazzar", Art Is About, artisabout.com, February 20. 2012, Driessen, Pete. "Art Hounds: 2012 visual art and music highlights", Minnesota Public Radio, December 31. 2012, Regan, Sheila. "Nyeema Morgan makes art from pound cake recipes at the Bindery Projects", City Pages, August 23. 2012, Scott, Gregory J. “A Cold Scientific Bludgeoning of a Warm Delicious Dessert.”, Minnesota Monthly, August 17. 2012, Palmer, Caroline. “Nyeema Morgan: The Dubious Sum of Vaguely Discernable Parts”, City Pages, a*List, August 15-21. 2012, Remes, Dr. Outi & Trench, Cally. At Play 4, exhibition catalogue, April. 2012, Blanchard, Benoît. “Projet Gutenberg”, oeuvres-revue.net, February 29. 2010, Curreri, Amanda & Scollon, Erik. Color&Color, Issue #1: Yellow & Purple, San Francisco, CA 2009, Genocchio, Benjamin. “A Decade of Emergence”, New York Times, Art Review. August 28. 2009, Carlin, T.J. “Get Outta Town”, Time Out NY, June 23-29. VISITING ARTIST, LECTURER, PROFESSOR: 2014, Adjunct Instructor, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY 2011- ‘12, Adjunct Professor, Saturday Outreach Program, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY 2010, Visiting Artist, Department of Visual Arts, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 2010 – ‘12, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Music, John Jay College of Criminal Justice/ CUNY, New York, NY AFFILIATIONS: 2014 Board Member, The Bindery Projects, St. Paul, MN 2011 - 2014 Board Member, The Society for the Arts, Religion & Contemporary Culture