Tschabalala Self

Visiting Artist in Residence, Studio Arts

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Studio Arts

Biography: Tschabalala Self is an artist and builds a singular style from the syncretic use of both painting and printmaking to explore ideas surrounding the black body. Born in Harlem, she lives and works in the Hudson Valley. She constructs depictions of predominantly women using a combination of sewn, printed, and painted materials, traversing different artistic and craft traditions. The formal and conceptual aspects of Self’s work seek to expand her critical inquiry into selfhood and human flourishing.

She received her bachelor’s degree from Bard in 2012 and a master in fine arts degree from the Yale School of the Arts. Her work is in public collections including theArt Institute of Chicago, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has held residency at, among others, the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Recent solo exhibitions include Skin Tight (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art), The Illusion of the Self (Longlati Foundation), Around the Way, (Espoo Museum of Modern Art),  Feed Me, Kiss Me, Need Me (Cultuurcentrum Strombeek Grimbergen) and Tschabalala Self: Out of Body (ICA Boston). She has been featured in articles in the New York Times, Financial Times, Artforum, Brooklyn Rail, Dazed, Frieze, Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair, San Francisco Chronicle, and Los Angeles Times, among others.
Website: https://tschabalalaself.com/
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