Safiyah Maurice

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Education

**** *** **** *** ********* Portland State University 2023 MFA Studio Practices Portland State University Curatorial Exhibitions

2023

Littman+White Gallery, Mariposa; The Art of Healing, Artist: paola de la cruz, curator April 2023 Littman+White Gallery, Welcome to my Happy Place, Curator: Dr. Kiara Hill and Rose, curator February 2023

2022

Littman+White Gallery, Sorry I Missed Your Call, I was Busy Regressing, Artist: Zeinad Saab, curator, september 2022

Littman+White Gallery, FRONT YARD PARKING & REAL CLEAN, Artist: Isabeau Waia’u Walker curator, June 2022

Littman+White Gallery, I’m The Main Character: Radical Dreaming & Art for the Masses, Artist: Nia Musbia April 2022

Littman+White Gallery, Regarding Hostile Terrain, collaboration: Mrinalini Tankha, curator, April 2022

Littman+White Gallery, PussyKat Loading…Artist: Marquise Dickerson, Curator, February 2022 Littman+White Gallery, Retrospective, curators, September 2022 2021

Shed: Mutual Aid Residency, Leena Joshi, Selena Mateus, Brittany,& Keesha Driscoll, “Reciting the marking of you” August 2021

Virtual Littman+White Gallery, The We See This Series: Artist: Nneka Peters, Curator, April 2021 Virtual Littman+White Gallery, Illuminate, Artist: Jarlisa, Curator, June 2021 Virtual Littman+White Gallery, Spiritual Grounding Through the 7 Directions, Artist: Michael Viola, Curator, June 2021

Virtual Littman+White Gallery, Shuffle and Reshuffle, Artist: Coco Ma, Curator, January 2021 2020 Virtual Littman+White Gallery, The Trials of Blackness, Artist: Ashly Sypherd Curator, Virtual Littman+White Gallery, Works in Progress: Homogeneity is a Myth, Can You See Me Now, and To Be A Slave Artist: Micheal B. Maine, Curator, August 2020 Virtual Littman Gallery, Galleries Clouded Sentiment, Artist: Vinh Pham Curator, April 2020 Littman Gallery, Standing Strong: The Awakening, Artist: Josué Rivas Curator, March 2020 White Gallery, Shahnameh, Artist: Kaveh Negahani, Curator, January 2020 2019 Shed: mutual aid Project Space, Brown Space, Artist: Jordan Shelby, Curator / Installation, November 2019

White Gallery, Perpetuating Family Systems, Artist: Olivia Kincaid, Curator, October 2019 Shed: Project Space, Constant Nausea Party, Artist: Vinh Pham, Curator, September 2019 Littman Gallery, i have no choice but to suck the juice, and who am i to blame, Artist: Maya Vivas, Curator, September 2019

Littman Gallery, Under Pressure, 7th Annual Juried Exhibition, Co-curator with Srijon Chowdhury, May 2019

Littman Gallery, (US), psuartistsofcolorcollective group show, Artists: Maya Stoner, Vinh Pham, Tim Tran, Courtney Gallardo, Cupid “Dagger” Daglyn, and Christian Orellana-Bauer, Curator, April 2019

White Gallery, Black Futures Month, Artists: Alisa Sikelianos Carter, Habiba Abdul Rahim, Lamarra Haynes, and Lisa Jarrett, Curator, February 2019 Littman Gallery, On Drawing, Artists: Eleanor Erskine, Lisa Jarrett, & Hugh Merrill, Curator, January 2019

2018 Littman Gallery, ghosts & venus, Artists: maximiliano (Max Martinez) + rise x fall, Curator, November 2018

White Gallery, Strategy Guides, Artist: Norah Horwitz, Co-Curator with Andrew D. Jankowski, September 2018

Littman Gallery, Storied Texture, Artists: Jeffrey Liddicoat + ariella tai, Co-Curator with Andrew D. Jankowski, August 2018

2017 Multnomah Arts Center, Muslim United Charity Art Show, group show / performance, Curator, January 2017

Artist Exhibitions

2023

PSU The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, MFA thesis final project, At this time–I fear the land between two rivers, Artist May 2023

AB Lobby Galleries, MFA thesis work, Open to Whatever, artist April 2023 2022 MK Galleries Juma Jarms, MFA studio practice program, artist April 2022 2021 AB Lobby Galleries, Black Sheep Collective collaboration, temporal, artist september 2020 2020 Portland Unknown Film Festival, different planes of existence, guest curator september 2020 2019 Erickson Gallery, Curio, Black Sheep Collective group show, curator–artist, November 2019 Urban Gallery, Cascadia Heart, October 2019

Littman Gallery, Open During Construction, BFA exhibition group show, June 2019 Sugar Cube Free Palestine exhibit, BFA Studios, solo exhibition, May 2019 2018 Smith Memorial Student Union PSU, Black Art Night, group show, May 2018 2017 MK & AB Lobby Galleries, Vertical, group show, November 2017 Professional Experience– workshops, collaborative projects 2023

Critical Race Theory– Amara H. Pérez: BIPOC A+D Student Cohort Issues and Spatial Aspirations, lever architecture Design Team 2023

BFA Vertical lab Assistant Professor september 2023 We in Space Program, engineer building club March 2023 2022

Tide ‘hear you calling out’ project, equity intake of student experiences of racism in school of art and design April 2022

School of Art & Design, faculty hiring committee, 2D Media professor April 2021 Racism Research Project, self led equity research into racism on campus February 2022 2020

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, director hiring committee August 2020

BFA Vertical lab, Assistant Professor september 2020 2019 AB Lobby Gallery, Beneath the music from a farther room, Artist: manuel arturo abreu, Co-Organizer and Co-Curator with Ralph Pugay and psuartistsofcolorcollective, May 6 – 24th 2019

Native American Student and Community Center, A Movement Workshop with Takahiro Yamamoto, Organizer with Ralph Pugay and psuartistsofcolorcollective, February 26th, 2019 2018 psuartistsofcolorcollective curatorial director, Artist, and co-founder Black Sheep Collective curatorial director, Artist, and do-founder Internship Ori Gallery curatorial internship, install, deinstall, and gallery hours February 2018 Curator Littman + White curator duties April 2018

Press

The Pacific Sentinel, “Artists on Campus: PSU Artists of Color Collective,” June 2019 Oregon Arts Watch, “The lens is cracked: Art and protest in the summer of 2020 Andrew D. Jankowski and Safiyah Maurice give an inside view of the visual art and culture components of the Black Lives Matter protests in Portland. August 2020

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