Dawolu Jabari Anderson
Just Do It!, 2009. Latex, acrylic, ink, and conté on paper, 68 x 48 inches.
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Tar, 2010. Latex, acrylic, and ink on paper,
72 x 48 inches
BIOGRAPHY
Born Houston, Texas
Lives and works Houston, Texas
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2007 Lawndale Art Center studio residency program, Lawndale Art Center
2006 Skowhegan School of Paint and Sculpture
1996 1ST prize, Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 After 1968, High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
2008 Defending Democracy, The Station, Houston
2008 Houston Collects African American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2007 Otabenga Jones: Lessons from Below, Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
2007 Arthouse Texas Prize, Arthouse, Austin, Texas
2007 System Error: War is a Force That Gives us Meaning, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
2006 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art
2006 Symmetrical Patterns of Def, Clementine Gallery
2004 Who Goliards? Artists at the Turn of the Century, The University Museum at Texas Southern University
2004 Symmetrical Patterns of Def, Lawndale Art Center
2002 Soul Sonic LustraSilk, Houston Community College N.E.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 "...tales of new dimensions in time and black space" Joan Wich Gallery, Houston
2007 Negro Week, Ingalls & Associates, Miami, Florida
2005 Birth of a Nation - Yo! Bumrush the Show: Works by Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Art League Houston, Houston
ARTICLES
Bill Davenport, "Our Story, Our Vision, Our Purpose", Houston Chronicle, July 23, 2006
Weekend Arts Fine Arts Leisure, The New York Times, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008 A13
Weekend Arts Fine Arts Leisure, The New York Times, Monday, Sep. 29 2008 A11
Weekend Arts Fine Arts Leisure, The New York Times, Tuesday, Sep. 23, 2008 A11
Brazos Bookstore, Houston Chronicle, Sunday, Feb. 11 1998 p.13
Galleries, Houston Chronicle, Friday, June 27, 1997 12G
Craig H. Hartley "Art Scene", Houston Chronicle, Tuesday, Feb. 6 1996 3D
Holland Cotter "The Collective Conscious", The New York Times, March 5, 2006
Patricia Johnson "Arts , Houston Chronicle, March 18, 2006
Bharati Chaturvedi "The Art of Involvement", Business Standard-India, March 31, 2006
Megan Scott "CULTURE CLASH, The Associated Press, Knocking Black History Month" April 06, 2006
MEDIA
Steven Cobert, The Cobert Report, Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Bill Perkin's Trickle Down Communism, Jeffers Dodge- Fox Business, Tuesday, September 23, 2008