Curriculum Vitae (CV)

LACHELL WORKMAN

b. 1989

EDUCATION

2015 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME                                 

2015 SUNY at Purchase College, MFA                                                                          

2011 The University of Connecticut, BFA in Photography       

 

RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPS

2015 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME

2016 Lighthouse Works Fellowship, Fishers Island, NY

2016 The Shandaken Project at Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY

2016 Ox-Bow School of Art, Fall Artist Residency, Saugatuck, MI

2016 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2016 Civil Society Institute Fellowship

2017 Lower East Side Printshop, Keyholder Residency 2017, New York, NY

2017 EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, SIP Fellowship

2018 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Artist in Residence

2018-2020 Queens Museum Studio Program 

2020 Andrew Freedman Home Artist Residency

 

EXHIBITIONS

2020

  • “The Hypogean Tip” by Rachel Owens, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT

2019

  • “Harlem Postcards Project”, The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY 

  • “SOM”, Group Exhibition, Penn State Abington Gallery 

  • “As of Right”, Group Show, SUNY Purchase College, Richard & Dolly Maas Gallery, Purchase, NY 

2018

  • “Coded.”, Boston Center for the Arts, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA 

  • 10th Berlin Biennale, Dineo Seshee Bopape, “Untitled (Of the Occult Instability) [Feelings]    2016-2018”, KW Institute, Berlin, Germany,  

  • “In Practice”, Group Exhibition, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY 

  • “MATERIAL WITNESS WITNESS MATERIAL”, The Knockdown Center, Group Exhibition, Maspeth, NY

2017

  • Wanderings and Wonderings, Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY 

  • THREE.: On Visibility and Camouflage, Group Exhibition, We Buy Gold, Brooklyn, NY 

  • Where We Land, The Union for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, Group Show 

  • Round 46, Black Women Artist for Black Lives Matter, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX 

  • Six Years of the Shandaken Project, Phillips Auction House Gallery, New York, NY

2016

  • Yale University, Queering Space, Greene Gallery, New Haven, CT 

  • Dineo Seshee Bopape, “Untitled (of the occult instability) [feelings]”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France 

  • Bronx Art Space “Speak Out”, Group Exhibition, Bronx, NY 

2015

  • Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art "Project 6" 2015, Peekskill, NY 

  • SUNY Purchase MFA Thesis Exhibition, "All Cats Are Gray in the Dark", Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY 

  • "All Cats Are Gray in the Dark" SUNY Purchase MFA Thesis Exhibition, Richard & Dolly Maas Gallery, Purchase, NY 

2014

  • “Suspension Point”, Richard & Dolly Maas Gallery, SUNY Purchase MFA Group Exhibition, Purchase, NY

2013

  • Richard & Dolly Maas Gallery, “In Real Life”, MFA Group Exhibition, Purchase, NY 

 

SELECTED PRESS

2018

  • Miller, Nicole. “MATERIAL WITNESS WITNESS MATERIAL.” The Brooklyn Rail. Phong Bui, 2018. https://brooklynrail.org/2018/04/artseen/MATERIAL-WITNESS-WITNESS-MATERIAL. 

  • Hickley, Catherine. “Berlin Biennale Challenges Art World’s White Male Dominance.” Art & Object.  June 2018

  • Thorne, Harry. "10th Berlin Biennale: ‘This is a Space of Generative Violence, There Are No Utopias Here’." Frieze 8 June 2018.

  • Tepper, Allie. "In Practice: Another Echo", exhibition catalog. Sculpture Center, 2018. 6, 24, 25.

  • Workman, Lachell. "R.I.P. Tees." Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art 56 (2018): 158-160.

2017

  • Simbao, Ruth, William B. Miko, Eyitayo Tolulope Ijisakin, Romuald Tchibozo, Masimba Hwati, Kristin NG-Yang, Patrick Mudekereza, et al. 2017. "Reaching Sideways, Writing Our Ways The Orientation of the Arts of Africa Discourse." Edited by Ruth Simbao. African Arts (MIT Press) 50 (2).

  • Sargent, Antwaun, “How to Survive Systemic Racism in America: Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter explores the politics of survival at We Buy Gold in Brooklyn” , Creators, Vice Magazine, July 2017.

 

LECTURES/PANELS

2019

  • On Memorials, Alternatives & Futures: Conversation with Alexandria Smith, Lachell Workman, Liz Gré and Maurisa Mansaray. Queens Museum, Corona, NY

2018

  • Artists Roundtable & The Central Park Five: Moderated by Carmen Hermo, The Knockdown Center, Queens, NY 

2017

  • Artist Panel, Black Futures, SUNY Purchase School of Art and Design, Purchase, NY 

  • Artist Lecture, Parsons School of Design, BFA Foundations, New York, NY

  • Artist Lecture, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA Wellesley, MA 

  • Artist Lecture, School of Visual Arts, MFA Department, New York, NY 

2015

  • Artist Panel, “How Artists Respond to Trauma and Urban Violence”, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY 

  • Artists Panel, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill Project 6 SUNY Purchase MFA Peekskill, NY