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JAMAL CYRUS

• Born 1973 Houston, TX
• Lives and works in Houston, TX and Philadelphia, PA

EDUCATION

• 2008 MFA, University of Pennsylvania
• 2005 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
• 2004 BFA, University of Houston

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

• 2010
  International Artist in Residence, New Works: 10.2, Artpace, San Antonio
  New Works (solo exhibition), CTRL gallery, Houston (upcoming)
  Huckleberry Finn, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (upcoming)
• 2009
  Landfall, Museum of London Docklands, London, UK
  Jamal Cyrus and Camille Norment (two person exhibition), The Kitchen, New York, NY
  
• 2008
  After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy (with Otabenga Jones and Associates, High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture; California African American Museum, Los Angeles
  
• 2007
  New works, CTRL, Houston
  Lessons from Below: Otabenga Jones and Associates, Menil Collection, Houston, TX
  Alabama, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
  When The Revolution Comes, Kathleen Cullen Gallery, New York, NY
• 2006
  Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  Emerging 2, Space 125, Houston, TX
• 2004
  Who Goliards? Artists at the Turn of the Century, The University Museum at Texas Southern University, Houston, TX
  Digital Impact: Video (R) Evolution, Station Museum, Houston, TX
  New American Talent: The Nineteenth Exhibition, Arthouse, Austin, TX
  Ain't that a Groove, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
  Synesthesia, Raw Space, Houston, TX
• 2003
  The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
• 2002
  BFA Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX
• 2001
  Urban Artists, Community Artists Collective, Houston, TX
• 2000
  Butta Phat, Eldorado Ballroom, Houston, TX
• 1999
  Africa, the New World and the Space in between, Community Artists Collective, Houston, TX
• 1997
  The Emergence of Us, TSU Art Gallery, Houston, TX
• 1996
  Preventions, Project Row Houses/Community Artist Collective, Houston, TX
  Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS

• 2010
  Artpace - San Antonio, International Artist in Residence
• 2009
  Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship
• 2006
  Artadia Houston Award in the Visual Arts
• 2005
  Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
  CACH Individual Artist Grant Recipient

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• 2009
  Karen Rosenberg, Jamal Cyrus: Winners Have Yet to be Announced, New York Times, May 1, 2009
• 2007
  Patricia Johnson, Visually Challenging Work Challenges Tradition, Houston Chronicle, October
  Jennifer King, Lessons from Below at the Menil Collection, Art on Paper, Oct./Nov
• 2004
  David Fahl & Kelly Klaasmeyer, A Picture of Our Opinions on Local Exhibitions, houstonpress.com (November 4)
  Catherine D. Anspon, Digital Impact: Video (R)Evolution, ARTLIES (Fall, 2004) page 96