JAKOB DWIGHT Born in US, 1977. Lives and works in US

Select Exhibitions

2022 “Anyone Can Move A Mountain”, Maus Contemporary, Birmingham, AL

2022 “Digital Combines”, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2021 “Workings of Media”, Harvestworks Digital Media Art Center, Governor’s Island, NYC

2019 “1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, with 50Golborne Gallery, New York City, NY

2018 “Out of the Whirlwind’s Radiance”, AKAA Fair, with 50Golborne Gallery, Paris, France

2018 “Out of the Whirlwind’s Radiance”, 50Golborne Gallery, London, England

2016 “Disguise: Masks and Global African Art”, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

2015 “Disguise: Masks and Global African Art”, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

2015 “Disguise: Masks and Global African Art”, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

2014 “MORPHOS”, Vortex Immersion Media, Los Angeles, CA

2013 “PLAY.GROUND.BREAK”, Hotel Particulier, New York City, NY

2013 “Harvestworks New Works Resident Open Studio”, New York Electronic Arts Festival,

New York City, NY

2012 “YOU ARE HERE”, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Kassel, Germany

2011 "Künstlerischer Großeinsatz", Großeinsatz, Berlin, Germany

2010 "GlogauAIR Open Studios", Glogauer Artist in Residence, Berlin, Germany

2008 “The Vinyl Show”, New Street Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2006 “The Superorganic”, Galerie CcG, Vienna, Austria

2007 “New Portraiture”, Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2006 “Projectorettes”, Basics Festival, Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria

2005 “Synthfest”, Transplant Gallery, New York City, NY (exhibited under the pseudonym Baron Maye)

Screenings, Lectures & Presentations

2013 “Leaders in Software Art”, presentation at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York City, NY

2012 video screening at Brooklyn Electronic Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY

2012 “NYSSSA Presents: Visiting Artist, Jakob LeBaron Dwight”, lecture at New York State Summer

School of the Arts at SUNY Fredonia, NY

2012 "New Multimedia Processes", lecture at Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY

2011 "Black Mirror | The Autonomous Prism", Papillion Art, Los Angeles, CA [solo]

2010 “JD Studio Launch”, video screening at White Box, New York City, NY

2009 "Selected Animation Works", GTM Rock Garden, Atlanta, GA

2006 “Survey of New Media Art and Communication”, lecture at Loras College, Dubuque, IA

2006 “Survey of New Media Art and Communication”, lecture at Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA

2006 “The Flowers of Air”, European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland

Awards & Residencies

2015 Invited Artist, Pioneer Works Center for Art + Innovation, Brooklyn, NY

2014 Resident Artist, Fulldome Artist in Residence, Vortex Immersion Media, Los Angeles, CA

2012 Resident Artist, New Works Residency, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York City, NY

2011 Invited Artist, United States Artists, Chicago, IL

2010 Resident Artist, Glogauer Artist in Residence Program, Berlin, Germany Education

Education

2005 Art Students League of New York, New York City, NY

1997 Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

1996 Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, FL

Bibliography

2018 Peggy Cooper Cafritz, “Fired Up! Ready to Go!: Finding Beauty, Demanding Equity: An African American Life in Art.

The Collections of Peggy Cooper Cafritz”, February, 2018

2016 Sesay, Nadia, “Jakob Dwight’s ‘Autonomous Prism’”, Blanc Modern Africa, September, 2016

2016 Eckhardt, Stephanie, "At the Brooklyn Museum, African Masks Take On A Fresh Glow", W Magazine, April, 2016

2016 Vikram, Anuradha, "Naked in the Sight of the Object: Masking, Masquerade, and Black Identity, X-TRA Contemporary

Art Quarterly, Summer, 2016

2016 Abrahams, Megan, "Disguise: Masks & Global African Art at the Fowler Museum at UCLA", Whitehot

Magazine of Contemporary Art, February, 2016

2016 Knight, Christopher, "Identity Transformed in the Fowler's 'Disguise: Masks and Global African Art'", LA Times, January, 2016

2016 Ayson, Christina, "Disguise: Masks and Global African Art” at the Fowler Museum, UCLA, Art Radar Journal, January, 2016

2015 Jennings, Helen, 'Disguise", Nataal Media, December, 2015

2015 Ebony, David, "Multimedia Masquerade: Masks and Disguise in Contemporary Art Interview with Pamela McClusky",

Yale Art Books (blog), November, 2015

2015 Murakami, Kenta, "Artists of African Descent Don Disguises in the Digital Age", Hyperallergic, September, 2015

2015 Ponnekanti, Rosemary, "Seattle Art Museum Opens Disguise: Masks & Global African Art", The News Tribune, July, 2015

2015 Miller, Brian, “Put a Mask On It: SAM’s Contemporary Take on Traditional African Art”, Seattle Weekly, July, 2015

2015 Sefa-Boakye, Jennifer, "Celebrating 21st Century Masks from Africa and the Diaspora", Okay Africa, June, 2015

2015 Frank, Priscilla, "Global African Artists Explore the Meaning of Disguise in the 21st Century", Huffington Post | Arts, June, 2015

2015 Clemans, Gayle, "Grand Illusions: Seattle Art Museum Show Pairs African Masks, Contemporary Art, Seattle

Times, June, 2015

2015 McClusky, Pamela Z. & Massaquoi, Erika Dalya, "Disguise: Masks and Global African Art", Yale University Press, June, 2015

2014 Onyewuenyi, Ikechukwu. "Interview: Aesthetics & Therapeutics Lab", Cool Hunting, October, 2014

2013 Zimmer, Lori, “Jakob Dwight at Hotel Particulier”, Art Nerd: New York, December, 2013

2013 Büsch, Thomas, “N’CHI: Visions of a New World”, Interactive Enthusiasts in Art, March, 2013

2012 Massara, Kathleen, "Jakob Dwight Creates Art Role-Playing Game With N'CHI", Huffington Post | Arts, April, 2012

2011 Onyewuenyi, Ikechukwu, "Jakob Dwight: A Multifaceted Video Artist Explores the Communicative Effects of Light",

Cool Hunting, February, 2011

2011 Eugenia, Issa, "Play", Pavo|Nyne (blog), June, 2011