NAIMA LOWE Interdisciplinary Artist (Video, Drawing, Performance, Text, Collaboration) www.naimalowe.net
EDUCATION
Temple University - MFA Film and Media Arts (2008) Brown University - BA Africana Studies w/focus in Playwriting (2002) University of Dar Es Salaam - Theater and Popular Education Undergraduate Research Fellowship (2000)
Fellowships, Awards, Residencies
Art 365 Award/Commission - Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition 2020-2021 Visual Art Fellow, Tulsa Artist Fellowship 2019 & 2020 Featured Artist, Concept: Focus (Juried Triennial Contemporary Art Exhibition) 2020 Project Grant, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition 2019 Artist-In-Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art 2018 Artist-In-Residence, Jack Straw Cultural Center 2018-19 Artist-In-Residence, CoCa UN(Contained) 2017 Visual Art Fellow, The Vermont Studio Center 2017 Artist-In-Residence, The Millay Colony 2017 Artist-In-Residence, The Colored Girls Museum 2017 Sponsored Research Grants, The Evergreen State College 2011, 2013-2017 Paul Robeson Award for Best Experimental Film, Newark Black Film Festival 2008 Regional Finalist-Alternative Category, 35th Student Academy Awards 2008 Winner- Best Sound Design, NextFrame International Student Film Festival 2007
Selected Exhibitions - Solo Exhibitions marked with ***
2020 Sound American 24: The Sun Ra Issue Release Celebration Sound American Publications Brooklyn, NY/Streaming Concept: Focus - Oklahoma Triennial Contemporary Art Exhibition and Regional Artist Exchange Selling Sexism The Fed Galleries at Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI
2019 ***Aren’t They All Just Love Songs Anyway Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle WA Pink: An Exploration, Henry Zarrow Center for Art and Education, Tulsa OK ***Improvisation Is for Everybody: Making Black Music, Learning Black Survival Flyloft Studios, Tulsa OK
2018 Endless Editions Biennial New York, NY You Don’t Disappear C hapel at Seattle First Presbyterian Church, Seattle, WA it went like this: the skyline was beautiful on fire V ermont Studio Center/Red Barn Gallery, Johnson, VT
2017 CoCa UN(Contained) Center for Contemporary Art, Seattle WA Trangressors: Queer Rebels Traveling Exhibition N ational Queer Art Exhibition and Mix International Film Festival
2016 ***T rouble The Art Department Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2015 Sensations That Announce The Future The Evergreen Gallery, Olympia WA You’ve Got Me Feeling Stable Studios, Olympia WA
2014 The Missing Body: Performance in The Absence of the Artist various venues, Lethbridge, Alberta Canada
2013 Afro-Asian Visions: Exploding Lineage II 26th MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival New York, NY Under My Skin: Artists Interrogate Race in the 21st Century The Wing Luke Museum On With and Against T he Evergreen Gallery, Olympia WA
2009 1.5 Million: Invitational Exhibition Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery, Philadelphia PA Habitatings: 2009 Denniston Hill Glen Wild, NY ***M ary and Sarah and You and Me: A Series of Tiny Spectacles, Judson Memorial Church New York, NY
2008 ***M ary and Sarah and You and Me: A Series of Tiny Spectacles The Parlor, Philadelphia PA The International Toy Theater Exhibition Saint Anne’s Warehouse New York, NY
2007 Birthmarks Experimental Non-Fiction (16mm, Digital Video, Archival Footage) Screenings: New Filmmakers at Anthology Film Archive, Black Lily Film and Music Festival, Athens Film and Video Festival, Scribe Video Center, Cinema du Parc in Montreal, Drexel University Television, Open Student Television Network, Emerson College, Hayti Heritage Film Festival
Every Artist is a Person F luxSpace/The Art Making Machine, Philadelphia PA
2006 ***R esidue Temple University TV Studio, Philadelphia PA
2005 The Sex Worker’s Art Show T raveling Group Exhibition, Various Cities
***Whores, Pigeons and Other Things of Beauty The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philadelphia PA
***A Simple White Dress Sedgewick Cultural Center, Philadelphia PA
Artist’s Books
Do I Know This Tune You Told It To Me, Or Do I Know It Because You’re My Father Walls Divide Press 2019 Thirty-Nine (39) Questions for White People Danger Dot Press and Community Print Olympia 2013
Published poems and articles
According To Sun Ra, None of Us Are Real Sound American: 24 The Sun Ra Issue Spring 2020 I fought Academia’s cult of civility, and all I got was this lousy PTSD diagnosis Medium October 15 2018 Whiteness Encyclopedia Project Vol. 3 November 2017 Black Girl In The Wilderness Headmaster #4 Fall 2013
Curatorial Projects
2020-2021 P ink Walls / Tulsa, OK Local and national artists commissioned to create collaborative wheatpaste installations in a backyard in a residential Tulsa neighborhood
2009 W eighty Proposition Films For The Flickering Light Film Series / Philadelphia, PA Experimental and Documentary Film Program centered around the theme of fatness, food, and bodily excess, co-curated with Flickering Light Film Series Founder Sara Zia Ebrahimi
2008-2009 B lack Girl in The Wilderness: A Salon / Philadelphia PA Quarterly Salon series involving two artists from different disciplines presenting and discussing their work with an invited audience of artists, educators, activists and friends.
2007 E xperimental Film Program 3rd Tree Arts Collective at the National LGBTI Health Summit / Philadelphia PA Collaboratively curated arts program designed to highlight the role of creativity in health and wellness for LGBTI people and their families
2001-2003 T MI: All Queer, All Genders, All Feminist Performance Series / Providence, RI Monthly series and open mic featuring emerging and local writers, filmmakers and performance artists
Bibliography
Blood, Liz. “Naima Lowe: Response by Liz Blood.” OVAC Concept 2020 Catalog, pp. 25
Baker, Cindy 2014, The Missing Body: Performance in The Absence of The Artist, exhibition catalogue, July-Septeber 2014, Various Venues, Lethbridge AB, Canada.
Gupta, Prachi. “Thirty-Nine Questions for White People” artist Naima Lowe: “Who gets to be white hasn’t always been the same” S alon.com Interview December 5, 2013
Steinhoff, Eirik “What Do You Want To Know More About?” A Fiery Flying Roule October 23, 2013
Graves, Jen. “Your Defensiveness is Our Command: Talking About Racism In Seattle” The Stranger (Seattle, WA) October 1, 2013
Palmer-Friedman, Danielle. “ 'Under My Skin,' the Wing Luke” The UW Daily (Seattle, WA) May 13, 2013
University Teaching Experience
2010-2017 Member of the Faculty (tenured) /The Evergreen State College
2009-2010 Visiting Professor /Goddard College
2007-2009 Adjunct Instructor / Temple U niversity