Artist — Desmond Beach

EDUCATION

MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, AND FELLOWSHIPS

2021-2022 Bayard Rustin Residency Fellow, New York, NY

2021 Independent Arts Award Maryland State Art Council

2018 Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ, Artist-in-Residence, Washington, DC

2013 Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Artist-in-Residence, Silver Spring, MD

2010 Skidmore College Summer Art Teacher Fellow, Saratoga Springs, NY

2004 Joan Mitchell MFA Award Nominee

2004 Fine Arts Work Center Summer Fellow, Provincetown, MA

2002 Women's Housing Coalition, Artist-in-Residence, Baltimore, MD

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

The Phillip Collection, Washington, DC

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Time Is Filled With Swift Transition, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY

2020 Works by Desmond Beach, Chesapeake Gallery, Bel Air, MD

2019 Color Me This, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL

2005 Wanted, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA

SELECTED JURIED MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

2023 POUR, TEAR, CARVE, The Phillip Collection, Washington, DC

2021 Inside Outside, Upside Down, The Phillip Collection, Washington, DC

Cladogram, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

2008 Person Of The Crowd: The Contemporary Art Of Flânerie, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

2004 The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD

SELECTED JURIED GALLERY EXHIBITIONS

2023 To Be Made Whole, Pace University Art Gallery, New York, NY

Counting the Seconds Between Lightning and Thunder, Wassaic Project, Wassaic NY

2022 Voices of Freedom, Kennedy Heights Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

High Contrast, Trolley Barn Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY

tet[R]ad: Cultivating Collaborative Creative Community, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD

SALLY, The Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, Massachusetts

2021 Grey Area, Treat Gallery, New York, NY

Repercussions, Eubie Blake National Jazz and Cultural Center, Baltimore, MD

2019 1st Annual Juried Exhibition, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY

rag mad soft, Waller Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Duplexity, M6 Annual Juried Exhibitions, MINT Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Contemporary 2019: Contemporary Figure Biannual, The Art Center, Grand Junction, CO

2018 Alteration, LoosenArt, Rome, Italy

2016 I AM ART NYC, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY

Self & Subject, Photoworks, Glen Echo Park, MD

2011 Black Male Identity Project, Baltimore City Community College, Baltimore, MD

2010 Studio 312, Case Gallery, Skidmore College

“Pinch” A Sculptural Invitational, The Rouse Company Foundation Gallery, Columbia, MD

2007 Artscape Outdoor Sculpture Visual Arts Exhibition, Baltimore, MD

2006 Artscape Baltimore 06 Visual Arts Exhibition Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2005 Tribes Gallery, New York, NY

25th Anniversary, School 33, Baltimore, MD

Artscape Baltimore 05 Visual Arts Exhibition, Baltimore, MD

2004 Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD

Celebrating the Spirit, Carroll Arts Council, Carroll County, MD

Strange Land, Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Artscape Visual Arts Exhibition, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD

Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD

Strange Land, Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2003 Artscape Visual Arts Exhibition, Rosenberg Gallery

Window and Door Project, Baltimore Office of Promotion & Arts, Baltimore, MD

FreeStyle, Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Jazz, Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church, Baltimore, MD

Artscape Visual Arts Exhibition, Outdoor Sculpture, Baltimore, MD

2002 Remembering 911, Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD