Helina Metaferia | VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES

Education

: Lives and works in New York, NY

2016: Participant, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2015: MFA – Interdisciplinary Art, Tufts University – School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 2005
: BA – Fine Art – Painting, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
2001-2002: Courses toward BFA, Temple University – Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Exhibitions

2022: "All Put Together," Bolinas Art Museum, Bolinas, CA
: "All Put Together," Praise Shadows Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2021-2022: "Helina Metaferia: Generations," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2021: "Helina Metaferia: (Middle) Passage for Dreams," New York University’s The Gallatin Galleries, New York, NY
2020: "Against A Sharp White Background," Northeastern University’s Gallery 360, Boston, MA
: "Against A Sharp White Background," Auburn University’s Biggin Gallery, Auburn, AL
2019: "By Way of Revolution," Michigan State University’s SCENE Metrospace Gallery (with performance at MSU Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum), East Lansing, MI
2018: "Refiguring the Canon," Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, DC
2017: "Home/Free," Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
2015: "Ancestral Honoring," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (solo performance)
2014: "Re-Collections," Mission Hill Gallery – School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2013: "Great Migration," International African Studies Association Conference, Baltimore, MD
2012: "Helina Metaferia: Divine Feminine," River Views Artspace, Lynchburg, VA
2010: "Journey," Williams College’s Jenness Building Gallery, Williamstown, MA
2007: "Finding Womban," Theater Project, Baltimore, MD

Two and Three Person Exhibitions

2019: "Counting On You, Counting On Me," NOMAD Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

Selected Group Exhibitions, Performances and Video Screenings

2024: "Multiplicities: Collage in Contemporary Art," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (forthcoming)
2023: "Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics," Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angles, LA (forthcoming)
: "Multiplicities: Collage in Contemporary Art," Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (forthcoming, traveling)
: "Ethiopia at the Crossroads," Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (forthcoming, traveling show)
: "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
: "Resting Our Eyes," Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2022-2027: "States of Becoming: Contemporary African Diaspora Artists in the U.S.," Independent Curators International Traveling Exhibition, premiers at The Africa Center, New York, NY
2022: Untitled Art Fair, presented by Marc Straus Gallery, Miami, FL
: "Perplexity," Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC
: "Sound, Stories," Locust Projects, Miami, FL
: "Resilience," Eastville Museum, Sag Harbor, NY
: "All Together," Martin Luther King Library Art Gallery, Washington, DC
: "The Upshot of Trans-Affective Solidarity," Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2021: "Designing Motherhood," Center for Architecture and Design, Philadelphia, PA
: "NI DE AQUÍ, NI DE ALLÁ," Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "From Modern to Contemporary," CFHILL Art Space, Stockholm, Sweden
: "Artists & Identity: Portraiture, Doppelgängers, Disguise," Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL
: "A.I.R Biennial: An A-Historical Daydream," A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
: "Bring it Home," Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
: "Storying," Residency Unlimited Exhibition @ Andrew Freedman Home Gallery, Bronx, NY
: "House of Crowns," pop up show at Phillips first floor galleries, New York, NY
: Untitled Art Fair, presented by Praise Shadows Gallery, Miami, FL
: Art Basel, three person presentation by Addis Fine Art Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
: "Making Marks," Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
: "Home Is: Contemporary Video Art from Ethiopia," The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
: "1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair," presented by Addis Fine Art Gallery, London, UK
2020: "A Different Kind of Weapon," Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL
: "A Beautiful Struggle," Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
: "Still Here," HUB-Robeson Gallery – Penn State University, University Park, PA
: "In/Flux: On Influence, Inspiration, Transformation," Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
: "Cold Hands, Warm Heart," Brentwood Arts Exchange, Brentwood, MD
: "Time Change, Change Time," Auburn University – Biggin Gallery, Auburn, AL
: "Craft School," Shelter in Place Gallery, Boston, MA
: "We Got You: 24 Hour Wide Awake Broadcast," Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
: Addis Video Art Festival: Grounded in Movement, WNDX Moving Image Fest, Winnipeg, Canada
: "Meet Me In The Clouds," Virtual performance commissioned by Sindikit Project, Baltimore, MD
: "Racism: An American Pandemic," Eastern Connecticut State University Art Gallery, Hartford, CT
2019: "Idol Worship," Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY 2019 Unboxing: Double Speak, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
: "Addis Video Art Festival: Mutual Periphery," Modern Art Museum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
: "Love In the Time of Hysteria," Prizm Art, Miami, FL
: "Behind the Seen," NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
: :Still Here," Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
: "Look Us Over," Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
: "Artscape Performance Series," Baltimore Office of Promotion & Arts, Baltimore, MD
: "Overlooked," Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA
: "Distance," Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2018: "Time Is Love, Ex-New Centre for Contemporary Art," Sulbiate, Italy (traveling video exhibition in 11 additional countries including France, Germany, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom)
: "Brown Paper Zine Fair," Studio Museum of Harlem @ Langston Hughes House, New York, NY
: "Multiplicities Volume 1: Continuous Unknowing," Assembly Room, New York, NY
: "The Dark Horse," Prizm Art, Miami FL
: "Skowhegan Book Meet," Skowhegan Space, New York, NY
: Film Festival on Theatre & Performance, Martin Segal Theatre Center – City University of New York, Graduate Center, New York, NY
: "Art Speaks: An Evening of Performance Art," Feminist Art Project – Art Share LA, Los Angeles, CA
: "HyphenAmerica," Gallery 102 – George Washington University, Washington, DC
: "What We Don’t Realize When We See Things," The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2017: "Addis Video Art Festival: Love Triangle," Modern Art Museum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
: "Universal Belonging," Prizm Art, Miami, FL
: "Performance is Alive," Satellite Art Show, Miami, FL
: "Inalienable Truths," Gallery 102 – George Washington University, Washington, DC
: "Freedom," Space Camp Gallery, Baltimore, MD
: "New. Now.," Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, DC
: "Home," Logan Fringe Arts Space, Washington, DC
: "Prismacolor," Parteojo VideoArt Festival, Barranquilla, Colombia
: "Say Her Name: An Evening of Arts and Action," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "Black Girl Lit – Between Performance & Memory," Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
: "Art & Academia: 1957 – 2017," James E. Lewis Museum, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
: "Black Girl Lit," Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2016: "Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter," New Museum, New York, NY
: "New Home," A.P.T. Gallery, London, UK
: "Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter," The Kitchen, New York, NY
: "International Video Art House Madrid Festival," La Neomudejar Arts Center, Madrid, Spain
: "Black Girl Lit – Between Performance & Memory," Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
: "Spilt Milk," Thomas Young Gallery, Boston, MA
2015: "Addis Video Art Festival: Grounded in Movement," Modern Art Museum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
: "What It Is & What It Ain’t," co-curator and artist, Panoply Performance Laboratory, Brooklyn, NY
: "Dispositions," Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL
: "Transient Vessels," Massachusetts College of Art and Design – Pozen Center, Boston, MA
: SMFA MFA Thesis Show, The Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
: "End Recordings," Museum of Fine Arts – Alfond Auditorium, Boston, MA
: "The Great American Performance Art Festival," Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY
: "Mapping the Dorchesterway," Medicine Wheel Gallery, Boston, MA

Residencies & Studio Programs

2023: Women Studio Workshop, Kingston, NY (forthcoming – spring 2023)
: Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (forthcoming – spring 2023)
2021-2023: Silver Art Projects @ World Trade Center, New York, NY
2021: The Drawing Center Viewing Program, New York, NY
: Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY
2020: Triangle Arts Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2019: New York Artist Residency & Studios (NARS) Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
: Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL
2018-2019: Michigan State University – Creative Practice in Critical Race Theory Residency, Lansing, MI
2018: The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
: Virginia Center for Creative Arts – Alonzo Davis Fellowship, Amherst, VA
: Lighthouse Works Fellowship, Fisher Island, NY
: Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art – Grant Supported Residency, North Adams, MA
2017: Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
: Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, MI
2016: Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
: Vermont Studio Center – Full Fellowship, Johnson, VT

Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

2022: Salomon Research Awards, Brown University, Providence, RI
: Center for Study of Race and Ethnicity Practitioner Fellowship, Brown University, Providence, RI
2021: FST Studio Projects Fund, New York, NY
: Lighthouse Works Legacy Grant, Fishers Island, NY
2020: Money for Women Visual Arts Grant, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Bearsville, NY
2019-2021: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Brown University, Providence, RI
2018: SMFA Alumni Traveling Fellow, School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston, MA
2017-2018: Hamiltonian Artists Fellowship, Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, DC
2016: Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York, NY
: Full Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2015-2017: AICAD Teaching Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2014: Public Art Grant, Boston Arts Commission, Boston, MA
: Montague Travel Grant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: Graduate Student Research Grant, Tufts University, Boston, MA
: President’s Research Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: Boit Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Public Collections

: Los Angelex County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: RISD Art Museum, Providence, RI
: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY
: Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA