Fahamu Pecou
Everybody Loves The Sunshine, 2022, acrylic and stardust on canvas, 54 x 48 inches
Dyin of Thirst, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 inches
BIOGRAPHY
Born: Brooklyn, New York, 1975
Resides: Atlanta, Georgia
Education: Emory University (Ph.D., 2018); Atlanta College of Art (B.F.A., 1997).
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 “People’s Instinctive Travels”, Backslash Gallery Paris, FR.
“Selected Works”, University Art Gallery Sewanee, University of the South, Tennessee.
2021 “The Space Between”, Hambidge Art Lab, Atlanta.
2020 “TRAPADEMIA III: 7 African Powers”, Conduit Gallery, Dallas.
“TRAPADEMIA II: LIT”, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York.
2019 “Memory”, Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn, New York.
“Of Crowns and Kings”, Backslash Gallery, Paris.
2018 “Do or Die: Affect Ritual Resistance”, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah.
“Do or Die: Affect Ritual Resistance”, University of New Hampshire, Durham.
2017 “Black Magic”, Backslash Gallery, Paris.
“Miroirs de l’Homme: Une Retrospective”, Collection Société Générale, Paris.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 “The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century!”, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland.
2022 “Picture This”, Lydon House Arts Center, Athens, Georgia.
“Blackness”, Monterosso Art Foundation, Marrakech, Morocco.
2021 "Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience”, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington DC.
“The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse”, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.
2020 “Drawing the Ghost”, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Seattle.
“South Arts Southern Prize & State Fellows”, Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, Georgia.
2019 “Men of Steel, Women of Wonder”, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas.
“Fashioning the Black Body”, Projects+ Gallery, St. Louis.
2018 “Constructing Identity in America (1766-2017)”, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey.
“RESPECT: HipHop Style and Wisdom”, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland.