The Armory Show
Jagoda Bednarsky + Anina MajorNew York
September 8 – 10, 2023
BORN
1981, Nassau, Bahamas
EDUCATION
2017 MFA, Ceramics, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA
2003 BS, Graphic Design, BS; Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
All Us Come Across Water, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY
2023
Old Week Home, Tern Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
I LAND, THEREFORE I AM, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT, USA
2022
Inheritance, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Garden Hills: Reflections in Memory Yard, Wavehill Public Garden & Culture Center, Bronx, NY
2020
No Vacancy in Paradise, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, USA
Among Other Things…, Landmark College, Putney, VT, USA
2019
Rhythm of Hybrid Interactions, Gallery 51, MCLA, North Adams, MA, USA
Sand Swallows Beneath My Feet, Foster Art Gallery, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Objects: USA 2024, R & Company, New York, NY
The Selves, Nicola Vassell, New York, NY
Holding Space: Woven Works, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY
Uncontained: Reimagining Basketry, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, USA
Unruly Navigations, The Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD) San Francisco, CA
Stop & Stare, UTA Artist Space, Atlanta, GA, USA
2023
Tender Loving Care: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
Transatlantic Connections: Caribbean Narratives in Contemporary Art curated by caryl* ivrisse crochemar & [creative renegades society], 1-54 presented at Christie’s, London, UK
On the Grounds 2023, River Valley Arts Collective, Boiceville, NY, USA
Inventing the Rest: New Adventures in Clay, Maximillian Williams, London, UK
Sparkling Islands, Another Postcard of the Caribbean, High Line Nine Gallery, New York, NY
Underneath Everything: Humility and Grandeur in Contemporary Ceramics, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, USA
Crossing Borders 2023, ArtsWestchester, Rochester, NY, USA
2022
Celebration, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
Making History: Recent Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, USA
Fragile Earth, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, USA
The New England Triennial 2022, deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, Lincoln, MA, USA
Lichtung, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
The Universe Within, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
2021
Ceramic in the Expanded Field, MassMOCA, North Adams, MA, USA
The Socrates Annual 2021, Long Island City, NY, USA
Coil Pot Show, Greenwich Pottery, New York, NY, USA
Everywhere and Here, Artspace New Haven, New Haven, CT, USA
Above & Below, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Collide & Scope, Knowhere Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA, USA
Chorus of Marks & Artifacts, LaiSun Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
Possibility Made Real: Drawing & Clay, Gallery 12.26, Dallas, TX, USA
Floating Rib, National Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
Asterisks in the Grand Narrative of History, The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville, VA, USA
2020
Inherited Values, Tern Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
Forms Fired, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Currency, BAIT15, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Nature/Nurture, Ferrin Contemporaries, North Adams, MA, USA
The 2020 FAWC Visual Arts Fellows, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA, USA
(im)materiality, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
2019
Refuge, National Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
Love in the Time of Hysteria, PRIZM Art Fair, Miami, FL, USA
Creative Artifacts, Providence Children Museum, Providence, RI, USA
Striking Gold, Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA, USA
VERIFIED, Loud Cow Art Space, Rochester, NY, USA
2018
NE9: The Fruit and The Seed, National Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
The Dark Horse, PRIZM Art Fair, Miami, FL, USA
Highlights, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI, USA
The Ecology of Relationships, Firehouse Gallery, Rochester, NY, USA
Suffer to Remain, curated by Holly Bynoe National Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
2017
Wonder: RISD Nature Lab 80th Anniversary Exhibition, Providence, RI, USA
New Contemporaries: RISD Class of 2017 Select Works, Providence, RI, USA
Overseas: Cuba and the Bahamas, HALLE 14, Leipzig, Germany
Our America, Gelman Gallery at the RISD Museum, Providence, RI, USA
FLUX: RISD Ceramics Triennial, Providence, RI, USA
2016
National Exhibition 8, National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
Fort Adams: Drawing Parallels, Listening for Echoes, Newport, RI, USA
Drive-by Projects, Saturday Evening Girls, Boston, MA, USA
Extra Credit: Meditation Room Installation, Providence, RI, USA
2015
Vitrify: RISD Graduate Ceramics Biennial, Providence, RI, USA
2014
NE7 Antillean: an Ecology, National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
2023
Joan Mitchell Fellowship, New York, NY
The Lighton International Artists Exchange Program (LIAEP) Award
The European Ceramic Work Centre (EKWC), Oisterwijk, The Netherlands
2021
Women Studio Workshop, Studio Residency Grant, Rosendale, NY, USA
2020
Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts Studio Membership Program, New York, NY, USA
2019
Provincetown Fine Work Arts Center, Provincetown, MA, USA
2018
36 Chase & Barns Artists and Art Historians Residency, North Adams, MA, USA
2017
Flower City Arts Center Artist-in-Residence, Rochester, NY, USA
Studios at Mass MoCA, Artist in Residence, North Adams, MA, USA
St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artists Award, Boston, MA, USA
Watershed Summer Residency Zenobia Award, Newcastle, ME, USA
Anderson Ranch Presidential Summer Workshop Scholarship, Snowmass Village, CO, USA
2010
Sculpture and Craft Category of Art of the State: Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, USA
2007
Annual International Facility Management Association (IFMA) Logo, Philadelphia, PA, USA
INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS
Carnegie Museum of Art
D’Aguilar Arts Foundation
Fuller Craft Museum
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
National Art Gallery of The Bahamas
Pérez Art Museum of Miami
Rhode Island School of Design Museum
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
The Hepworth Wakefield
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2017 Mutual Encounters, Gelman Gallery of RISD, Providence, RI, USA
For the 2024 edition of the Dallas Art Fair, Gaa Gallery is pleased to present works by Alyssa Klauer, Andrej Dúbravský, Anina Major, Autumn Wallace, + Julia Garcia. The fair runs April 4 - 7, with a VIP First Look and Foundation Preview Thursday, April 4, and public days Friday and Saturday, April 5 and 6, from 11 am - 7 pm and Sunday, April 7, from 11 am - 5 pm. The gallery's booth is #B12, and the fair will take place at Fashion Industry Gallery, 1807 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75201.
For the Collaborations sector of Art Cologne 2023, Gaa Gallery is pleased to present new works by Anina Major and Malaika Temba. The fair runs November 16 through 19 and will take place at Koelnmesse, Halle 11, Köln, Germany.
Gaa Gallery is pleased to present Lichtung, a group exhibition featuring Melissa Brown, Angelina Gualdoni, Adam Helms, Hipkiss, Heidi Howard, Kaylie Kaitschuck, Anina Major, Zoe McGuire, Hélène Padoux, Dan Schein, James Everett Stanley, Elizabeth Tibbetts, Lumin Wakoa, Autumn Wallace, and Erin Woodbrey. On view through July 3, Lichtung will open with a reception on Friday, April 1, from 4 - 7 pm at Gaa Gallery, 494 Commercial Street Provincetown, MA.
Gaa Gallery is pleased to present, (im)materiality, a group exhibition featuring Wilder Alison, Anina Major, Judy Pfaff, Sarah Trigg, and Erin Woodbrey. (im)materiality opens August 21 and will run through November 16, 2020.
