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With an extensive background in the visual and performing arts, Kwabena Slaughter brings together fresh new ideas on the nature of art and aesthetic experience. His current work in photography investigates the relationship between the camera, photography, and the painting traditions that precede it. Instead of accepting the historical narrative that leads from linear-perspective, through the camera obscura, to photography; Kwabena imagines an alternative history, one in which photography grows out of scroll-painting. Working with cameras that the artist modifies himself, Kwabena makes single images that occupy the entire length of a strip of slide-film. These strips of film can be up to 100-feet long.
Kwabena’s video and photographic work has been shown at premier institutions in the U.S. and abroad, including the New Museum, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He has been a resident at the Art Omi International Artists Residency, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Bronx Museum’s AIM Program, and Smack Mellon Gallery. His grant credits include a New Media and Technology Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts and a fellowship in photography from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Kwabena’s performing arts credits include acting in the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, dancing with a trapeze-dance company, and stage-managing for a clown school. His writing on aesthetics has been published in the journal “Philosophy and Social Action”.
2010
New Britain Museum of Art 'New/Now' New Britain, CT.
2008
Smack Mellon Gallery ‘Oh Very Yes’ Bklyn,NY
2007
David Castillo Gallery 'Structure and Stories' Miami, FL.
2005
Studio Museum in Harlem 'Frequency' NY, NY
Bronx Museum of the Arts 'AIM 25' Bronx, NY.
2004
Smack Mellon Gallery '9X: Smack Mellon 2004 Studio Artists' Brooklyn, NY.
New Museum of Contemporary Art. 'Adaptive Behavior' NY, NY.
Sziget Festival Budapest, Hungary
2003
MCA/Denver 'Colorado Biennial 10+10' Denver, CO.
2002
Apex Gallery 'Unjustified' NY, NY.
2001
MN Gallery 'milk and honey' Chicago, IL.
Smart Project Space. 'Selzer Pants' Amsterdam, Netherlands
2003
Frequent Flyers Productions Aerial Dance Festival. 'Latter Daze'
Boulder, CO.
1996
Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival 'Black Fathers and Sons:
A US perspective' NY, NY.
Art Omi International Artist Residency Omi, NY
Center for Photography at Woodstock Woodstock, NY.
Bronx Museum of the Arts 'Artists in the Marketplace' Bronx, NY. Smack Mellon Studios Artist in Residence – Work/Exchange Program Brooklyn, NY.
2003
Philosophy and Social Action 'The Nonviolent Imagination' vol.29 no.3, fall 2003
New Museum of Contemporary Art 'Adaptive Behavior' Artist Talk. NY, NY.
MCA/Denver 'Soft Power', Denver, CO.
2004
The New York Times 'Adapting and Constructing in a Dizzily Changing World'
Sept.24, 2004
The New York Times 'Grand Projects, in a Modest Space' Aug.22, 2004
The Daily Camera 'Colorado Biennial 10+10' Jun.15
2002
TimeOut New York issue #333 Feb.14-21
2001
Dialogue 'milk and honey' Leah Finch Jul/Aug.
1996
Art in America 'Art on Stage' Janet Koplos Sept.
Collection of Mark Addison
Allen Art Library – artists book collection. Oberlin, Ohio
East End Neighborhood House East Cleveland, Ohio
African Cultural Center University of Illinois at Chicago
Ethnic Studies Department University of Colorado at Boulder
Private Collection
2001
MFA. University of Illinois at Chicago. Chicago, IL.
- Sculpture, set-design, performance, video
1998
BA. Oberlin College. Oberlin, OH.
- Sculpture, set-design, performance, video
2003
Pratt Institute Special Events Coordinator Brooklyn, NY.
University of Colorado at Boulder. Adjunct Professor of Sculpture, Boulder, CO.
2002-2003
Naropa University, Performing Arts Center, Stage Manager.
Boulder, CO.
