Stephon Senegal

In residence:
January 2020 – Jacksonville, FLorida
February 2020 – Erie, Pennsylvania

Stephon Senegal is an artist working primarily in assemblage and painting. His work deals with creolization and the evolution of the Black body. The practice focuses on figuration, but as amalgams of human and animals. His techniques have roots in Neo-Dada and the violence of Futurism. He holds an Undergraduate degree from Howard University in Washington D.C. and a Graduate Masters of Fine Art degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. Senegal was born in Louisiana and presently lives and works in New York City. Along with recently completing a Mass MOCA residency, Senegal is working with disenfranchised communities to create site-specific installations. The public portion of his practice seems to take cues from Constructivism, though exclusively rooted in communities of color. Some of his recent public installations have involved the Liberty City public housing complex in Miami Florida, Marcy Houses in Brooklyn New York and west of Main Street in Rochester New York with the support of RoCo, the Rochester Contemporary Art Center.

EDUCATION
Masters of Fine Art – Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Bachelors of Art – Howard University, Washington, D.C.

Artist's Website:
http://www.ssenegal.com/index.html