zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal: The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
@ Arts Incubator Gallery
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, April 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
APL presents artist zakkiyyah najeebah dumas-o’neal’s new body of work. Focusing extensively on notions of embodiment, alternative modes of movement, imagining technologies, intimacy, and collectivity in physical and digital spaces, dumas-o’neal, an APL/CSRPC artists-in-residence alumnae, debuts new video and photo work.
A supplementary exhibition at the Arts Incubator gallery (301 E. Garfield Blvd) will celebrate the start of EXPO CHICAGO and open for exclusive EXPO VIP viewing April 11, 2023. In support of APL’s new cohort of L1 Creative Entrepreneurship Fellows, special discounts and free merchandise will be offered to EXPO VIPs and guests.
BIO:
zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal makes work to further understand how the specificity of her own lived experiences are connected to historical and contemporary movements that involve embodied knowledge production. She explores this through social portraiture, video assemblage, collage, drawing, and found images. She seeks to reinforce a different kind of gaze (and gazing) which she processes through empathy, desire, love, queer identity, family, intimacy, illegibility, and poetics. Within her projects there’s an overlying theme of trying to make sense of what and who she belongs to across time, location, and space.
Ultimately, she intends for her work to encourage ways of being and feeling beyond the systems we inhabit.
zakkiyyah has been included in numerous group exhibitions and has had several solo exhibitions at Mana Contemporary, Blanc Gallery, Indiana University, and South Bend Museum of Art. Her work has been presented in various forms at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, NADA, The Art Institute of Chicago, The August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Chicago Humanities Festival, DePaul University, and Harvard Graduate School of Design to name a few. She has also curated exhibitions at spaces such as Chicago Art Department, Blanc gallery and Washington Park Arts Incubator at the University of Chicago. She was recently a 2021 Artist in Residence at Arts and Public Life at University of Chicago, a 2021 Artist in Residence at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN, and a 2022 3Arts Gary & Denise Gardner Fund Awardee.
zakkiyyah is also a Co-founder of CBIM (Concerned Black Image Makers): a collective of Black artists, thinkers, and curators that prioritize shared experiences and concerns by lens based artists of the Black diaspora.
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