April Bey
Bahamian/American,
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
MFA California State University Northridge, CA
BFA Ball State University, Muncie, IN
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIP
2020 Center for Cultural Innovation Artist Grant 2019 GCC Foundation Grant
2019 Student Equity Grant
2017 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant Nominee 2015 Melvin Best Award
2015 Melvin Best Award
2014 CSUN Arts Council Award
COLLECTIONS
Fullerton College Art Gallery
Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
Inter-American Development Bank
Self-Help Graphics
Center for Contemporary Printmaking
The Current Bahamas Tradewinds
California African American Museum
National Art Gallery of the Bahamas
RESIDENCIES
2020 Self-Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Fullerton College Artist in Residency, Fullerton, CA
2019 Center for Contemporary Printmaking Artist in Residence, Norwalk, CT
2019 Nkyinkyim za, Ada, Ghana
2018 The Current, Nassau, Bahamas
2018 In-Flux Artist Residency, Ghana, West Africa
2017 In-Flux Artist Residency, Bali, Dubai, Senegal, Morocco, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana
2017 CHALE WOTE, Jamestown, Ghana
2012 Can Serrat Artist in Residence, El Bruc, Spain
SOLO SHOWS
2022 April Bey: When You're On Another Planet And They Just Fly, GAVLAK, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Language in Times of Miscommunication, Socittsdale Museum of Contemorary Art, AZ
2022 The Opulent Berd, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, CA
2021 April Bey: Atlantica, The Gilda Region, The California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2020 April Bey, UNTITLED ART ONLINE, UPFOR Gallery, Portland, OR
2020 Welcome to Atlantica, Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA
2018 Made in Space, Band of Vices Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 COMPLY, Coagula Curatorial, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Picky Head, Liquid Courage Art Gallery, New Providence, Nassau, Bahamas
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Weaving Data, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU, Portland, OR Adornment Artifact, Eastern Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2023 A Love Letter to LA, Super Position Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 A Room Full of Mirrors, Fragment Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Mercy NE: 10, National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, The Bahamas, CAR
2022 Cantos of the Sibylline Sisterhood, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, ArtCenter, Pasadena, CA
2022 Language in Times of Miscommunication, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, US
2021 Floating Rib, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas, curated by Natalie Willis
2021 TEXTURES: The History and Art of Black Hair, Kent State Museum, Kent, OH
2020 Show Me the Signs, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2020 INVOCATION DEMOCRACY: A Political and Mystical Virtual Exhibition
2020 Nasty Women, Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 SPACELAND IV WAR, Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Access, Reflect Space Gallery, Glendale, CA
2020 Sanctuary, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Breathe/Breath, Seer Virtual Gallery curated by: The Association of Hysteric Curators
2019 Welcome to the AfroFuture, New Orleans African American Museum, New Orleans, LA Dear Lucy, UPFOR Gallery, Portland OR
2019 Black, Brown and Beige, Self-Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA Atlantica, Chimento Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2019 LA Painting Survey, Museum of Art History, Lancaster, CA
2019 BLACK HISTORY 365, University of La Verne College of Law, Ontario, CA
2019 AMERICAN, Golden West College Art Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA
2019 NE9: The Fruit and the Seed, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas Dis...Miss, Freewaves Los Angeles, CA, curator: Anne Bray
2018 Visual Resistance, Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA Glendale Community College Faculty Exhibition, Glendale, CA
2018 Back to Black, Avenue 50 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Eye Forward, Curating Our Narratives, Fresno State University, Fresno, CA Dis...Miss, Freewaves Los Angeles, CA
2018 Eyes Forward, LA Artshow, Los Angeles, CA
2018 MANIFESTO: A Moderate Proposal, Pitzer College Art Gallery, Claremont, CA
2017 The Fabulous 7, Feral Projects, Los Angeles, CA, curator: Isabelle Lutterodt CHALE WOTE, Jamestown, Ghana, curator: Dr. Sionne Neely
2017 ICONIC: Black Panther, Gregorio Escalante Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 NE8, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas Shift and Fade, BLAM Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Reflections on the Self: Selections from the Permanent Collection, CAAM, Los Angeles, CA SKIN, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Colored Girls, Autonomie Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Hard Edged: Geometric Abstraction and Beyond, CAAM, Los Angeles, CA
2015 CA 101, Redondo Beach Power Plant, Redondo Beach, CA
2015 Out of Nothing, Glen Echo Park Gallery, Washington DC
2015 We Choose Art: A Feminist Perspective, Los Angeles, CA
2015 50 Years and I Still Can’t Breathe, Watts Towers Arts Center, Watts, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Pulse of LA, Southern California Women’s Caucus of Art, Los Angeles
2014 Antillean: An Ecology (NE7), National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
2014 GLAMFA, California State University, Long Beach, CA
2014 #Whodoyouworship? Graduate Thesis Show, California State University Northridge, CA
2014 Sudden Impact, 11:11 Collective Gallery, Woodland Hills, CA