Painter, Photographer
Kwesi Abbensetts
48 Artworks
Granny Say Don't Worry, Even It Look Bad: Looking At America
Acrylic, Collage on Canvas
78x48in
Not available
Kwesi Abbensetts
United States
Credentials
- Experienced Artist
- Residency Participant
- Works on commission
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Kwesi Abbensetts is an American painter and photographer whose works have been widely exhibited in the United States, as well as in the United Kingdom and France. Describing himself as an intuitionist, his creative process is guided by an intuitive and unconscious calling that relies on waiting, spontaneous inspiration, and feeling. Abbensetts' vibrant, expressive, and diverse compositions are born of color, experimentation, and change.
Darryl Chappell Foundation Grant - Nominated- New York, United States
Festival Artist – Third Horizon Film Festival- Miami, United States
Film Africa Artwork Competition- Paris, France
NYFA Photography Fellowship Award- New York, United States
Portraits of Yesteryear- Virtual Exhibit / Online (due to covid-19) - Los Angeles, United States
Gardenship: First Voyage / Cove Street Arts - Maine, United States
MEDIUM(S) / La Box Gallery - Paris, France
Umbilical - A Solo Show / MoCADA Museum - New York, United States
Race, Myth, Art, and Justice Caribbean / Cultural Center Diaspora Institute - New YorkOctober, United States
An Experience of Color / Landscapes and LegaciesSpanierman Modern - Miami, United States
Metamorphosis: Come To Meboom! / Studios - New York, United States
Conception Art Fair / New York - New York, United States
Liminal Space Caribbean / Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute - New York, United States
A Solo Show: Water MeBrilliant / Champions Gallery - New York, United States
Metamorphosis: A solo exhibition of paintings / 7two7 Creative Space - New York, United States
SelfishBrilliant / Champions Gallery - New York, United States
Pictures: A solo exhibition / Tictail Gallery - New York, United States
UN|Fixed HomelandAljira / Center for Contemporary Art Center - New Jersey, United States
ART BASEL MIAMI / Prizm Art FairMiami - ..., United States
Gordon Parks 100 – A Centennial and Remembrance / Free Candy Creative Space - New York, United States
Metanoia: Practices of Exhaustion / Grace Exhibition Space - New York, United States
SELF TIMER / Brooklyn Fire Proof Stages - New York, United States
SPIRIT- a self curated exhibit of photographic works / Freecandy Creative Space - New York, United States
Dandy Lion: Articulating a Re (de)fined Black Masculine IdentityReginald / F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, - Maryland, United States
2011Dandy Lion: Articulating a Re (de)fined Black Masculine Identity / Aljira Center for Contemporary Art - New Jersey, United States
Forever Forged, Forever Becoming Bargehouse, / AACDD (African & African- Caribbean Design Diaspora) Festival - London, United Kingdom
Dandy Lion: Articulating a Re (de)fined Black Masculine / IdentityMocada Museum - New York, United States
2010Homecoming: An Exhibition About Home and Homelessness. / Nathan Cummings Foundation - New York, United States
Live To Change Something Through Art / Skylight Gallery, Bedford- Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, - New York, United States
Facial Profiling: A group show / C24 Gallery - New York, United States
BIAS/CUT – A group show / The Curtain - London, United Kingdom
“Blood Memory”- “Blood Memory”
Nailed Magazine- Nailed Magazine
Conception Art Fair by Sinéad Day MacLeod- Conception Art Fair by Sinéad Day MacLeod
Hallucinatory Photographs by an Outsider Artist Defy Convention- Hallucinatory Photographs by an Outsider Artist Defy Convention
In Conversation with Grace Aneiza AliThose Who Leave and Those Who Are Left- Google Cultural Institute
Fjords Review - Heather Zises “SELFISH”- Fjords Review - Heather Zises “SELFISH”
Fader Magazine - “Kwesi Abbensetts’s Quest For No More Boring Photos”- Fader Magazine - “Kwesi Abbensetts’s Quest For No More Boring Photos”
Voices of NY- Voices of NY
Guyana Chronicle - “Migration, memory and the Guyana Experience”- Guyana Chronicle - “Migration, memory and the Guyana Experience”
Gyuana Daily News - “Kwesi Abbensetts: The Photographer, The Artist, The Innovator”- Gyuana Daily News - “Kwesi Abbensetts: The Photographer, The Artist, The Innovator”
Guyana Chronicle - Dominque Hunter, “Kwesi Abbensetts - Tending the garden of fragmented memories”- Guyana Chronicle - Dominque Hunter, “Kwesi Abbensetts - Tending the garden of fragmented memories”
Village Voice - “A Guyanese Art Show Explores Images of Migration and Home-Making”- Village Voice - “A Guyanese Art Show Explores Images of Migration and Home-Making”
Hyperallergic - In Miami’s Little Haiti, A Fair Spotlights Artists of the African Diaspora- Hyperallergic - In Miami’s Little Haiti, A Fair Spotlights Artists of the African Diaspora
Bric TV - “Kwesi Abbensetts | Brooklyn Is Masquerading As The World”- Bric TV - “Kwesi Abbensetts | Brooklyn Is Masquerading As The World”
Quiet Lunch Magazine - “A Kind of Masking”- Quiet Lunch Magazine - “A Kind of Masking”
Arc Magazine - “Experiment As Practice”- Arc Magazine - “Experiment As Practice”
Gardenship Residency - Jersey City, United States
Wassaic Project Residency - New York, United States
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