Sedrick Chisom
An Altrightland Reconnaissance MapMaker Scaled the Valley of The Rocks Wary of Monstrous People Reportedly Roaming The Savage South, 2022
Oil on linen
68 x 66.25 in
172.7 x 168.3 cm
Sedrick Chisom
George The Younger, The Lord of The Equestrian Short Kings, Trotted Around on a Stolen Blighted Cavalryman's Horse, Worked To the Bone During Miasmic asscrack Hours, 2022
Oil on linen
69.5 x 65.875 in
176.5 x 167.3 cm
Sedrick Chisom
...Meanwhile a Young God Pours Life On The Planet Kemetopia, 2019
Acrylic on tiled sheets of paper glued to canvas
59.325 x 43.325 in
150.9 x 110.2 cm
Sedrick Chisom
Untitled, 2022
Oil on burlap
12 x 18 inches
Sedrick Chisom
Prairie Bell after N.C. Wyeth, 2022
Charcoal on paper
21 3/4 x 30 in
55.2 x 76.2 cm
Sedrick Chisom (b. 1989, Philadelphia) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received a full scholarship to study at Cooper Union, where he completed his BFA in 2016 and was awarded the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation Award for Exceptional Ability. In 2018, he received his MFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
Solo and two-person exhibitions include …And 108 Prayers of Evil, CLEARING, New York (2024); Angels to Some, Demons to Others (with Katherine Bradford), Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2022); Twenty Thousand Years of Fire and Snow, Pilar Corrias, London (2021); Westward Shrinking Hours, Condo, in collaboration with Pilar Corrias, London (2020); When the Night Air Stirs, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2019); The Final Excursion Into the Savage South, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (2019); The Ghost of White Presidents Yet To Come, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA (2019); and You Just Gotta Look For It, Cooper Union, New York (2018).
Recent group exhibitions include Manic Pixie Nightmare Drawings, Adler Beatty, New York (2024); the 14th floor, Gratin, New York (2024); Wave Pattern Part II, Max Werner, New Yor, (2023); Works on Paper: 100 Years, Amanita, New York (2023); UGLY PAINTING, curated by Dean Kissick and Eleanor Cayre, Nahmad Contemporary, New York (2023); Papertrail, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2023); In the Black Fantastic, Hayward Gallery, London (2022); Reference Material, curated by Brook Hsu, Adler Beatty, New York (2022); Supermoon, CLEARING, Beverly Hills, CA (2022); One hundred eighty-six billion steps to the sun, CLEARING, New York (2022); Dissolving Realms, curated by Kathy Hessel, Kasmin, New York (2022); Possédé·e·s, Montpellier Contemporain, France (2021); Great Force, curated by Amber Esseiva, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Richmond, VA (2020); Cult of the Crimson Queen, Ceysson & Bénétière, New York (2019); Beside Myself, JTT Gallery, New York (2018); GDPR, Signal Gallery, New York (2018); and Leap Century, Abrons Art Center, New York (2018).
Chisom was awarded the 2018–2019 VCU Fountainhead Fellowship in Painting and Drawing at the Macedonia Institute and was a 2019 resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
His work is included in the collections of the Elias Khoury Art Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon; KADIST, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China.
