Shikeith

In residence
Winter – 2018

Shikeith (b. 1989, Philadelphia, PA) received his BA from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA for Integrative Art (2010) and his MFA in Sculpture from The Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT (2018). His work attempts an assemblage of personal truths and wonder that focuses on the metamorphoses of Black men, especially within a society that denies these men their erotic and reconciliatory potential and capital. It is the interior he considers—his own, as well as, other Black men or masculine people through emphasizing portraiture, sculpture, and film making to examine the fantastic as it relates and complicates personal autobiography and self-making.

AWARDS
2018 The Advancing Black Art Grant, The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments
2017 The Afro-American Cultural Center Award For Excellence In The Arts, Yale University
2016  Interdisciplinary Arts Awards, Center For Collaborative Arts and Media, Yale University
2016 Student Wellness Grant, Yale University
2016 The Advancing Black Art Grant, The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowment
2013 The Advancing Black Art Grant, The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments
2010 University Artist Award, The Pennsylvania State University
2009 Leslie P. Greenhill Photography Scholarship, The Pennsylvania State University

FILM FESTIVALS
2018 Black Star Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Rio Festival de Género & Seexualidade no Cinema, Rio de Jenior, Brasil
2018 BFI Flare, British Film Institute, London, UK
2018 Inside Out LGBTQ Film Festival, TIFF, Toronto, CA
2018 Cinem Africa Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweden
2017 GLITCH Film Festival, Scotland, England

Artist's Website:
https://www.shikeith.com/home