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Jamilah Sabur

Jamilah Sabur

Jamaican visual artist

Jamilah Sabur (born 1987) is a Jamaican-born contemporary artist working across different disciplines and issues such as performance, installation, video, geography, identity, and language. Sabur lives in Miami, Florida.[1][2][3][4]

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Biography

Jamilah Sabur was born in 1987 in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica.[5][6] She received a BFA degree in 2009 in interdisciplinary sculpture from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore; and an MFA degree in 2014 in visual arts from the University of California, San Diego.[5]

In 2018, she was an artist in residence at Flagler College’s Crisp-Ellert Art Museum in St. Augustine, Florida.[7] In 2019, Sabur's site-specific project for the Hammer Museum at University of California, was celebrated in a combined exhibition opening with visual artist Tschabalala Self.[8][9][10]

In an exhibition review by the Mark Jenkins at The Washington Post, in 2020, the artist spoke via email about her relationship to nature.[11]

“I spent a lot of time in the desert thinking about how a body navigates space in a philosophical sense. I made ephemeral gestures in the land that later transformed into sculptures and sets to perform in.”[11]

The Pérez Art Museum Miami presented the group show The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Caribbean Contemporary Art, in 2019. Jamilah Sabur's work was included alongside other thirteen artists from the Caribbean and it's diaspora. The exhibition's main question was "what might a Caribbean future look like?”[12][13]

At Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow in 2021, New Orleans, Sabur presented Bulk Pangaea, a video installation commenting on the relationship between Louisiana, Belgium, the Duke of Wellington, Napoleon, and transatlantic trade between Africa and the Americas.[1][14]

Pieter Bruegel the Elder- The Harvesters – Google Art Project

In 2022, she presented a new body of work at a solo show titled The Harvesters in the Bass Museum of Art, Florida, in which she references Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1565 painting of same title.[15][16]

Exhibitions

  • 2022 Jamilah Sabur: The Harvesters, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida[17]
  • 2022 Eltanin, Broadway Gallery, New York, New York[18] (solo show)
  • 2021 La montagne fredonne sous l’océan/The mountain sings underwater, Fondation PHI, Momenta Biennale, Montréal, Québec (solo show)
  • 2020 Observations: Selected Works by Jamilah Sabur, University of Maryland Art Gallery, Baltimore[19] (solo show)
  • 2020 Mending the Sky, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
  • 2019 Hammer Project: Jamilah Sabur, Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles[2] (solo show)
  • 2019 Parallels and Peripheries, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Michigan
  • 2019 The Other Side of Now, Pérez Art Museum Miami[12][20]
  • 2018 Jamilah Sabur: The Rhetoric of the Living, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami[21]
  • 2017 If defined, then undefine, Dimensions Variable, Miami[22][23] (solo show)

Collections

Jamilah Sabur's work is included in permanent collections of museums in the US and abroad.[17]

References

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    "This artist is inspired by landscape, whether terrestrial, cosmic or internal". Washington Post. 2020-11-04. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
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    "Eltanin". Broadway. 2022-06-16. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
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    "Jamilah Sabur: The Rhetoric of the Living - Emerson Dorsch". emersondorsch.com. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
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    "A Temporary Inhabitance: The Ghosts in Jamilah Sabur". MICE Magazine. 2017-09-17. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
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    "If Defined, Then Undefine— Jamilah Sabur". Contemporary And (in German). Retrieved 2023-06-13.
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    "Tilt (blue) • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
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    "Mending the Sky". New Orleans Museum of Art. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
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