MAHARI CHABWERA - CV

RESIDENCIES/EDUCATION

2020 - 2021 Contemporary Arts Network First Patron Artist in Residence

2020 Oakwood Arts Curator in Residence

2019 Vermont Studio Center Residency

2017 B.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University

SOLO SHOWS

2019 - 2020 ​I’d Be Starved if I Ate All the Lies They Told​, Amuse Restaurant, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

2017 ​Origin of Descent​, Browne Studio, Richmond, VA

GRANTS/AWARDS

2020 Emerging Artist Award from The Visual Arts Center

2019-20 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship

2018 The Anderson Gallery Summer Studio Space Grant

2017 Vermont Studio Center Merit Grant

2017 Best Piece Award in Poictesme Art & Literature Spring Anthology, Richmond, VA

2017 Chair’s Choice Award, Richmond, VA

2017 Merit Studio, Richmond, VA

2016 Merit Studio, Richmond, VA

2016 Esther Elizabeth Motz Memorial Arts Scholarship, Richmond, VA

2013 First Place in Hampton Roads Academy Juried Art Exhibit, Newport News, VA

2013 Second Place in Peninsula Fine Arts Center Student Exhibition, Newport News, VA

2013 Chesapeake Bay Art Association Scholarship recipient, Hampton, VA

SHARED PROJECTS

2021 ​Black Spirituals, ​CAN, Newport News, VA

2020 ​For The People​, CAN, Newport News, VA

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2020 ​Primordial Emanations, that which is brought forth follows the womb: a surrender to her luminous

blackness, ​1708 Gallery, Richmond VA

2019 ​In Search Of Our Mothers’ Gardens, We Made Armor, ​Sediment Gallery, Richmond, VA

2018​ he Burned Our Drums, So We drummed Our Bodies; A Developing Dedication To The Vulva, ​Corner Office,

Richmond, VA

2017 ​Mama Ree’s School Aged Exhibition​, The Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA

2017​ Painting and Printmaking Senior Show​, The FAB Gallery, Richmond, VA

2016 ​Mad Young​, Downing Gross Cultural Arts Center, Newport News, VA

PUBLICATIONS

2020 ​New American Paintings​, No. 142, South Issue

2018 Corner Office, Richmond, VA

2017 Sukeban Magazine, Tokyo, Japan

2017 Poictesme Literature and Art Anthology, Richmond, VA

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2020 ​Cabin Fever​ Live Auction, 1708 Gallery, Richmond VA

2020 ​Evolution of The Sacred Self ​Iridian Gallery

2019​ New Waves​ Juried Exhibition, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA

2019 ​Cabin Fever​ Silent Auction, 1708 Gallery, Richmond VA

2018 ​Spirit Fingers & Jazz Hands​, Capital One Corporate Headquarters and Iridian Gallery, Richmond VA

2018 ​Monster Drawing Rally​, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

2018​ Intersectional Wonder Woman Art Show​, The Hofheimer, Richmond VA

2017 ​Virginia AF,​ Neon Festival, Norfolk, VA

2017 ​On The Magical Art of Not Giving a Fuck​, Kate’s Place, Richmond, VA

2017 ​Some Claims​, FAB Gallery, Richmond, VA

2017 ​Performing History​, FAB Gallery, Richmond, VA

2017 Virginia Commonwealth University Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA

2016 ​Innersanctum​, 670 Gallery, Hampton, VA

2016 The CANtemporaries Exhibit, 670 Gallery, Hampton, VA

2016 Virginia Commonwealth University Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA

2015 ​The Can Opener​, 670 Gallery, Hampton, VA

2015​ Three / Fifths : The Redefining of a Culture​, 670 Gallery, Hampton, VA

ARTIST TALKS/PANELS

2019 ​A conversation With Mahari Chabwera​, The Black Experience at VCU, Richmond VA

2019 Torpedo Talks, ​Black Woman Artists Matter​, DC

COLLECTIONS

Contemporary Arts Network Foundation

Capital One Financial Corporation