Jerome Ellis (born 1989), who goes by JJJJJerome Ellis, is a multimedia artist, musician, composer, writer, and performer. Their work concerns disability, justice, temporality, and historical experience. The artist's dysfluency informs their practice. Ellis currently lives in

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. Their debut album, ''The Clearing'' (2021), accompanied by a book, is described as a score of stuttering and an act of resistance against performative fluency.

Awards and recognition

Ellis has been awarded a United States Artists Fellowship (2022), a

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Grants to Artists Award (2022), and a

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Grant (2022). The artist received MacDowell residency Fellowships in 2019 and 2022.

Exhibitions

Ellis is represented twice in the 2024

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as a solo artist and a member of the People Who Stutter Create (PWSC) collective.

Discography

* 2021 – ''The Clearing''

Books

* 2021 – ''The Clearing.'' New York: Wendy's Subway, 2021. * 2023 – ''Aster of Ceremonies''. Minneapolis:

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, 2023.

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ellis, JJJJJerome Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century African-American musicians 21st-century African-American writers American people of Grenadian descent American musicians of Jamaican descent 21st-century American writers