NYAME OULYNJI BROWN
AWARDS + RESIDENCIES
Tosa Studio Award, San Francisco, CA (2020-2021)
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (2019)
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Artist in Residence Program, Omaha, NE (2018)
Yale Women’s Faculty Forum Otelia Cromwell Portrait Finalist, New Haven, CT (2017)
Joan Mitchell Center Artist in Residence Program, New Orleans, LA (2016)
Black Artist Retreat, Chicago, IL (2016)
Chicago Public Art Program Finalist, Chicago, IL (2004)
Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award, New York, NY (2003)
Richard Driehaus Foundation Individual Artist Award, Chicago, IL (2002)
Richard Dixon Welling Prize, Recognition of Excellence in Drawing, Yale University (1997)
Anna Louis Raymond Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (1993)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Classroom in Neveryon at The Museum of The African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (2016)
Forging The Self in The Heat of Myth at FM, Oakland, CA (2015)
Afronauts Notes From Space at Gallery 160 at Saint Mary’s College of California, Moraga, CA (2013)
John Henry’s Adventures in a “Post Black” World at Hearst Museum, Moraga, CA (2012)
John Henry at West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV (2011)
Afromation Recent Painting and Drawings at Crossroads Gallery, South Bend, IN (2004)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Mothership: Voyage into Afrofuturism, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA (2021)
Drawing the Ghost, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Seattle, WA (2020)
Afrofuture:Groundzero, New Orleans African American Museum, New Orleans, LA (2020)
Diaspora Voiced, SFMOMA Galleries, San Francisco, CA (2019)
The Transphysics We Know About, presented by Mana Contemporary at Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL (2019)
With Liberty and Justice for Some and I.D. Please, San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC), San Francisco, CA (2017)
Invisible: Spirits in a Material World, Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL (2016)
Wonder Twin Powers, The West Wall Chicago, IL (2016)
ArtComplex, Pop Up Space Oakland, CA (2014)
We Make Art 2, White Box, Oakland, CA (2015)
Afrofuturism Envisioning the Year 2070, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA (2014)
Heroes and Villains online at Dirtypilot.com (2013)
Office Romance at threewallsSALON, Chicago, IL (2010)
64 Arts National Juried Exhibition, Buchanan Center for the Arts, MonMouth, IL (2009)
Regional Juried Art Exhibition, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN (2009)
Art is: Speaking Portraits (in the Performative Indicative) video exhibition by George Quasha Studio Soto, Boston, MA (2007)
Frequency, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY (2006)
Recent Drawings, Gallery M, New York, NY (2006)
African American Art Celebrates 10 Years of Exhibition, juried by Garry Bibbs and Ed Hamilton at Actors Theatre, Louisville, KY (2004)
Salon Show: 9 Artists, P.C.O.G. Gallery, Harlem, NY (2004)
Recent Works, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY (2004)
Mitchell Place Gallery Print Exhibition, Mitchell Place Gallery, Muncie, IN (2004)
The Leopold and Lobe Incident, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, IL (2004)
Summer Group Show and Invitational, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY (2003)
Light Show Brooklyn, NY (2003)
Elaine L. Jacob Gallery Regional Drawing Exhibition, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI (2003)
Isobel Neal Benefit, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL (2003)
Recent Works 200, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY (2003)
Jim Torok and Nyame Brown, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY (2002)
Not in MY Lobby, You Don’t!, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL (1998)
COLLECTIONS
The West Collection, Oaks, PA
Snite Museum at University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Department of Children and Family Services The State of Illinois Building, Chicago, IL
Northeastern University Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Mr. Leigh Jones, Chicago, IL
Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, IL
Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL
Anchor Graphics/Colombia College, Chicago, IL
EDUCATION
Yale School of Art and Architecture, MFA
The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, BFA