Damali Abrams

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Damali Abrams
Nationality Guyanese American
Style Video art

Damali Abrams (born in Guyana[1]) is a Guyanese-American video-performance artist who lives and works in New York City. She is known for the Self-Help TV, an ongoing video-performance project using her own body to examine issues of self-improvement, race, class and gender. She is a coordinator for The Feminist Art Project in New York.[2]

Career

Abrams graduated New York University as a Bachelor of Arts in 2001 and obtained a master's degree in fine arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2008. Her work has been exhibited at galleries including The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (MoCADA), El Museo del Barrio, A.I.R. Gallery, BRIC Rotunda Gallery and the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning.[3]

Teaching & Workshops

Abrams has led classes at Barbados Community College, the Grenada National Museum, the Borough of Manhattan Community College, Hunter College School of Social Work, SUNY Purchase, Syracuse University’s 601 Tully and at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering.[4]

Awards

  • 2009-10 A.I.R. Fellowship Recipient[5]

Residencies

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