Dr. Fahamu Pecou, artist/scholar
Education
Ph.D. 2018 Emory University, Institute of Liberal Arts
M.A. 2017 Emory University, Institute of Liberal Arts
B.F.A. 1997 B.F.A., Atlanta College of Art, Painting/Digital Art
(selected) SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Praise Songs, Marrakech Morocco
TRAPADEMIA II: LIT, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
TRAPADEMIA III: 7 AFRICAN POWERS, Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX
2019
Do or Die: Affect Ritual Resistance,
Philadelphia African American Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Michael C Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga
TRAPADEMIA, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Of Crowns and Kings, Backslash Gallery, Paris, France
2018
Do or Die: Affect Ritual Resistance,
Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden UT
Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Memory, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Black Magic, Backslash Gallery, Paris, France
Miroirs de l’Homme: Une Retrospective, Collection Societe Generale, Paris, France
Music as A Weapon, Seattle Art Fair, Backslash Gallery, Seattle, WA
The People Could Fly, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2016
#BLACKMATTERLIVES, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
Do or Die: Affect, Ritual, Resistance, Halsey Museum, Charleston SC
Re:Membering, Weil Gallery, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX
Talking Drum, Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA
2015
I Know Why the Caged Bird Blings, Backslash Gallery, Paris, France
Imagining New Worlds, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
2014
GRAV • I • TY, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
Pursuit of Happiness, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
2013
How to Eat Watermelon, Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX
All Dat Glitters Aint Goals, BlueOrange Gallery, Houston, TX
NEGUS IN PARIS, Backslash Gallery, Paris France
2012
Native Sun: Selected Works 2008-2012, Sumter Gallery of Art, Sumter, SC
All Dat Glitters Aint Goals, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
Sophisticated Ignorance, Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Wisconsin
2011
Sophisticated Ignorance, Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta, GA
HARD 2 DEATH, Backslash Gallery, Paris, France
ART HISTORY next, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
Second Childhood, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
Fahamu Pecou, Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro NJ
2010
Whirl Trade, The Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
ALL FALLS DOWN, Get This! Gallery, Atlanta, GA
ALL FALLS DOWN, Grambling State University, Grambling, LA
2009
Coming From Where I’m From, Bell-Roberts Gallery Cape Town, South Africa
Blak Presidential, Volta 5, Art Basel, Switzerland
Blak Presidential, Lyons Wier Ortt Gallery, New York, NY
Instant Art History Immediately: The Fak’try, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
Whirl Trade, Get This! Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2008
FAHAMENON, NEXT Chicago, Chicago, IL
Something Like a FAHAMENON, Vaknin Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Sitting By The Front Door, MMGalleries, San Francisco, CA
Stunt’d Like My Daddy, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007
Million Dolla Baby, Lyons Wier Ortt, New York, NY
Hustle & Show, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Things Done Changed, Vaknin, Atlanta, GA
2006
NEOPOP and Circumstance, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
NEOPOPular Demand, MMGalleries, San Francisco, CA
(selected) GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Permanent and Natural, Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, IN
Visible Man: Art and Black Masculinity, Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, OH
Fashion Conscious, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Rancho Cucamongo, CA
2019
Men of Steel, Women of Wonder, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Fashioning the Black Body, Projects+ Gallery, St. Louis, Ms
2018
Constructing Identity in America (1766-2017), Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
RESPECT:Hip-Hop Style and Wisdom, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Pop Stars! Popular Culture and Contemporary Art, 21c Museum, Oklahoma City, OK
2017
High John the Conqueror Ain’t Got Nothing On Me: American Hoodoo and Southern Black American-Centric Spiritual Ways, curated by Danny Simmons and Shantrelle P. Lewis, Rush Arts Philly, Philadelphia, PA
#BlackArtMatters, Carnegie Center for Art and History, New Albany, IN
Southern Accent: Seeking the South in Contemporary Art, Speed Museum, Louisville, KY
2016
Southern Accent: Seeking the South in Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art Duke University, Durham, NC
REMIX:Themes and Variations in African-American Art, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
(selected) LECTURES/PERFORMANCES
2019
TEDx Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Creative Mornings Atlanta (Keynote), Atlanta, GA
Black Masculinities Panel, The James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, Emory University
2018
Black New England Conference: “Express Yourself: Identity, Style & Adornment”, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Building Brave Spaces: Mobilizing Teen Arts Education, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
2017
The American Society for Aesthetics, New Orleans, LA
“Visible Man: Re-Membering Black Male Identity”, Emory University Alumni Association, Paris France
“Visible Man: Re-Membering Black Male Identity”, Emory University Alumni Association, London, UK
“Visible Man: Re-Membering Black Male Identity” (Keynote), Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
interSessions: The Art X Hip-Hop Dialogues f/ Negarra Kudumu and Frank William Miller Jr, Seattle, WA
interSessions: The Art X Hip-Hop Dialogues featuring Monie Love and T Lang, The Gathering Spot, Atlanta GA
Kentucky College of Art and Design, Louisville, KY
2016
Princeton University Center for African American Studies, Princeton, NJ
University of Texas Corpus Christie, Corpus Christie, TX
interSessions: The Art X Hip-Hop Dialogues featuring Killer Mike and Dr. Arturo Lindsay, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
Basquiat Still Fly @55, “Feeling Gray: Music, Art, And Being the Only One in the Room”, New York University, New York, NY
“Behind the Canvas”, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
2015
Black Portraiture{s} II: Imaging the Black Body and Re-Staging Histories, “Habitual Line Steppers”, Florence, Italy
Meet the Maker, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
interSessions: The Art X Hip-Hop Dialogues featuring Nzingha Stewart and Bryan Michael-Cox, Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta GA
The 15 Project, High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2018
Welcome to Atlanta: The Life and Work of Charles Huntley Nelson, Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta, GA
2015
RiTES, Zuckermann Museum, Kennesaw, GA
2011
Home: An Emerging Artist Exhibit, City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta GA
2007
Spectrumed, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh N.C.
AWARDS/GRANTS/RESIDENCIES
2020
Montresso Foundation, Le Jardin Rouge, Marrakech, Morocco
Artist-In-Residence, Art on the Beltline, Atlanta, GA
2019
Belvedere Vodka “A Beautiful Future” Change Agent Award
2018
NBAF Fine Art+Fashion Award
2016
Joan A. Mitchell Foundation, Painters and Sculptors Award
2015
Robert A. Paul Award, Emory University
2013
Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Nellie Mae Rowe Fellowship
Working Artist Fellowship, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
2010
Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NCMcColl Center, Charlotte, NC
2009
Artadia Award
PUBLISHED WORKS
2016
"Muhammad Ali's Rope-A-Dope Rally for Truth Set Him Free", NBC News, 2016
“Birth of A Nation, Death of an Ideal”, NBCNews.com, October, 2016
“Are You Not Entertained? Kendrick Lamar and Black Resistance”, NBCnews.com, February, 2016
"Art Will Tell", ArtsATL, 2016
2014
Art Papers Magazine, “Art x Hip-Hop”, Issue 38:01, Guest Editor
The Organic Globalizer: The Organic Globalizer: Readings In The Political Development of Hip Hop, “Whirl Trade”, Bloomsbury Press, New York, NY
AtlantaJournal Constitution, “Another Life Lesson From Our Favorite T.V. Dad: Bill Cosby, Rape Culture and the part We Play”, November 27, 2014
PUBLICATIONS
2017
VISIBLE MAN: Fahamu Pecou, (monograph) Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
Miroirs de l’Homme: Une Retrospective (exhibition catalog), Collection Societe Generale
2014
Knuckles, Dawud, Art on Deckz (featured artist)
2013
Mackey, Carlton, 50 Shades of Black: The Conversation (featured artist)
2012
eds Dunkley, Tina, Cullum, Jerry, In The Eyes of Muses: Selections from the Clark Atlanta University Art Collection (featured artist)
2011
Cullum, Jerry, “We Are no Danesin Denmark: Displacement and the liquid self in Atlanta Art” NoPlaceness: Art In a post-urban LandscapeSirmans, Franklin, “Good Business is the Best Art”, 5 Cities/41 Artists Artadia 08/09 (featured artist)
2009
DEFinition: The Art and Design of Hip Hop (featured artist)Cey Adams and Bull Adler
2008
FAHAMENON Self published catalogue