Fahamu Pecou Biography

Education

  • Independent Study/Painting, Spelman College, Atlanta, 1996
  • B.F.A. Painting/Computer Art, Atlanta College of Art, 1997
  • Ph. D. Student, Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University, Atlanta, 2012

Solo Exhibitions

  • All Dat Glitters Ain’t Goals, présentée par \ presented by Salvador Castillo, Big Medium Gallery, Austin, Texas, USA, 20 avril — 4 mai \ April 20 — May 4, 2013
  • All Dat Glitters Ain’t Goals, BLUEorange Gallery, Houston, TX, 28 juin — 13 juillet \ June 28 — July 13, 2013
  • How to eat your watermelon, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX, 29 juin — 31 août \ June 29 — August 31, 2013
  • NEGUS in Paris, BACKSLASH Gallery, Paris, jan. 2013
  • Native Sun, Sumter County Gallery of Art, Altlanta, GA, USA, nov. 2012
  • All Dat Glitters Ain’t Goals, Michael Lyons Wier, New York City, sept. 2012
  • Sophisticated Ignorance, Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, nov. 2011
  • Marcia Jones + Fahamu Pecou, Live and In Stereo(type), Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC, juin \ June 2011
  • Hard 2 Death, BACKSLASH Gallery, Paris, 30 avril — 28 mai \ April 30 — May 28 2011
  • Art History NeXt, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, 4 mars — 2 avril \ March 4 — April 2 2011
  • Hard 2 Death: Second Childhoood, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2011
  • Passage of Right: Call & Response, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC, 2010
  • Something Like a Fahamenon: ’90s Jam, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC, 2010
  • Whirl Trade, Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2010
  • All Falls Down, Grambling State University, Dunbar Hall Gallery, Grambling, LA, 2010
  • 2nd Annual FAHAMENON 80’s Throwdown, Lyons Wier Gallery, NYC, 2010
  • The 15 Project, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, 2010
  • Coming From Where I’m From, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town, Afrique du Sud \ South Africa, 2009
  • Black Presidential, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY, 2009
  • Fahamu Pecou: Whirl-Trade, Get This Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2009
  • Bell Roberts Gallery, Vlaeberg, Cape Province, Afrique du Sud \ South Africa, 2008
  • Something Like a FAHAMENON, Vaknin Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2008
  • Sitting By The Front Door, MMGalleries, San Francisco, CA, 2008
  • Stunt’d Like My Daddy, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2008
  • Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX, 2008
  • Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, NY, 2008
  • Amistad Center, Hartford, CT, 2008
  • Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC, 2008
  • SWAB Barcelone, Espagne, 2007
  • Million Dolla Baby, Lyons Wier Ortt, New York, NY, 2007
  • Things Done Changed, Vaknin Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2007
  • Hustle & Show, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC, 2007
  • NEOPOP & Circumstance, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2006
  • Neopopular Demand, MMGalleries, San Francisco, CA, 2006
  • Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, CA, 2005
  • NEOPOP Goes the World, Ty Stokes Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2005
  • Sacred Spaces, Wood is Wonderful Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2004
  • Dar La Luz, The Rotunda at the Roosevelt, Atlanta, GA, 2003
  • Libations & Invocations, Wood is Wonderful Gallery, East Point, GA, 2002
  • Bible Stories: An Installation by Fahamu Pecou, The Gilbert House, Atlanta, GA, 2001
  • Muse, Apache Cafe, Atlanta, GA, 2001
  • Anges de Nuit, The Crescent Room, Atlanta, GA, 2000
  • Life After Death: An Installation by Fahamu Pecou, Gallery 100, Atlanta, GA, 1996

Group Exhibitions

  • Drawing Inside the Perimeter, Lambert Fund, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 27 juin — 22 sept. \ June 27 — Sept. 22, 2013
  • FAMILY & FRIENDS, Backslash Gallery, Paris, nov. 2012
  • SLICK Art Fair, Paris, oct. 2011
  • BACKSLASH presents, BACKSLASH Gallery, Paris, 2010
  • The Reflected Gaze, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
  • Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town, Afrique du Sud \ South Africa, 2008
  • I Am a Man, commissariat de \ curated by Kevin Powell, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, NY, 2008
  • Bare Walls, No Boundaries, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Amistad Center, Hartford, CT, 2008
  • Spectrumed, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC, commissariat de \ curated by Fahamu Pecou, 2008
  • Modern Art. Modern Lives. Then + Now, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, 2008
  • Takking Possession, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AK, 2007
  • Kindred Spirits; Arturo Lindsay & Fahamu Pecou, Blackburn Museum, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA, 2007
  • Whats Goin Down, Taller Portobelo, Portobelo, Panama, 2006
  • Selections, Ty Stokes Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2005
  • The One, NGC224 Brooklyn, NY, 2005
  • Altares: Encuentra Cultural. Taller Portobelo, Portobelo, Panama, 2005
  • Art, Beats + Lyrics, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, 2005
  • Como Se Cuenta El Cuento, Taller Portobelo UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 2005
  • Sacred Spaces, Broyles Art Center, Westminter School, Atlanta, GA, 2005
  • Como Se Cuenta El Cuento, Taller Portobelo, Hammonds House Galleries, Atlanta, GA, 2004
  • Art, Beats, Lyrics, The 5 Spot, Atlanta, GA, 2004
  • Studio Sweepings, 310 Haustudio, Atlanta, GA, 2004
  • Sneaker Pimps, More Dusty Than Digital, Atlanta, GA, exposition itinérante, 2004
  • Ferias de Portobelo, Las Orquedias, Portobelo, Panama, 2003
  • Changing Traditions, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA, 2002
  • Santuario de los Reyes, Festival Iberoamericana de Teatro de Cadiz Baluarte de Candelaria / Cadiz, Espagne \ Spain, 2001
  • Sankofa, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 1999
  • Alumni Exhibition, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 1998
  • Precise Significance, Hammonds House Galleries, Atlanta, GA, 1997

Happenings & Lectures

  • “Live in Stockholm — The 15 project”, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Suède \ Sweden, nov. 2012
  • University of Wisconsin, Osh Kosh, 2012
  • Kennesaw State University, 2012
  • “The 15 project”, Southwest Arts Center, Atlanta, 2011
  • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, 2011
  • Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Art + Culture, Charlotte, NC, 2011
  • Grambling State University, LA, 2010
  • “The 15 project”, Charlotte, NC, 2010
  • Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art, Ft. Worth, TX, 2009
  • VANSA “20:20”, Visual Arts Network of South Africa, Cape Town, Afrique du Sud \ South Africa, 2009
  • Instant Art History Immediately: The Fak’try”, Lyons Wier Gallery, NYC, 2009
  • University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 2009
  • “Fahamu Pecou presents: The 15 Project”, Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA, 2009
  • Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, 2008
  • Amistad Center, Hartford, CT, 2008
  • Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA, 2007
  • School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2007
  • “It Might Blow up But it Won’t Go POP”, Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, GA, 2007
  • “It Might Blow up But it Won’t Go POP”, African American Museum, Dallas, TX, 2007

Awards

  • Fulton County Arts Council Caversham Fellowship, 2008
  • Artadia Award of Atlanta, GA, 2009

Fahamu Pecou

Contemporary

Drawing, painting, sound - music, video

American artist born in 1975 in Brooklyn, United States. 

Localisation
Atlanta, United States
Website
www.fahamupecouart.com