Jamilah Sabur (born 1987) is a Jamaican-born contemporary artist working across different disciplines and issues such as

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, installation, video, geography, identity, and language. Sabur lives in Miami, Florida.

Biography

Jamilah Sabur was born in 1987 in Saint Andrew Parish,

Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...

. She received a BFA degree in 2009 in interdisciplinary sculpture from

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(MICA), Baltimore; and an MFA degree in 2014 in visual arts from the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego in communications material, formerly and colloquially UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California, United States. Es ...

. In 2018, she was an artist in residence at Flagler College’s Crisp-Ellert Art Museum in St. Augustine, Florida. In 2019, Sabur's site-specific project for the

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at University of California, was celebrated in a combined exhibition opening with visual artist Tschabalala Self. In an exhibition review by the Mark Jenkins at

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, in 2020, the artist spoke via email about her relationship to nature.

“I spent a lot of time in the desert thinking about how a body navigates space in a philosophical sense. I made ephemeral gestures in the land that later transformed into sculptures and sets to perform in.”

The

Pérez Art Museum Miami Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)—officially known as the Jorge M. Pérez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County—is a contemporary art museum that relocated in 2013 to the Maurice A. Ferré Park in Downtown Miami, Florida. Founded in 1984 as the Cent ...

presented the group show ''The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Caribbean Contemporary Art'', in 2019. Jamilah Sabur's work was included alongside other thirteen artists from the

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and it's diaspora. The exhibition's main question was "what might a Caribbean future look like?” At Prospect.5: ''Yesterday we said tomorrow'' in 2021, New Orleans, Sabur presented ''Bulk Pangaea'', a video installation commenting on the relationship between

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, the

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, and transatlantic trade between

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and the

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder- The Harvesters - Google Art Project

In 2022, she presented a new body of work at a solo show titled ''The Harvesters'' in the Bass Museum of Art, Florida, in which she references

Pieter Bruegel the Elder Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder ( , ; ; – 9 September 1569) was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaking, printmaker, known for his landscape art, landscape ...

's 1565 painting of same title.

Exhibitions

* 2022 ''Jamilah Sabur: The Harvesters'', The Bass Museum of Art,

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, Florida * 2022 ''Eltanin'', Broadway Gallery,

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, New York (solo show) * 2021 ''La montagne fredonne sous l’océan''/''The mountain sings underwater'', Fondation PHI, Momenta Biennale,

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, Québec (solo show) * 2020 ''Observations: Selected Works by Jamilah Sabur'', University of Maryland Art Gallery,

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(solo show) * 2020 ''Mending the Sky'', New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans * 2019 ''Hammer Project: Jamilah Sabur'',

, University of California, Los Angeles (solo show) * 2019 ''Parallels and Peripheries,''

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* 2019 ''The Other Side of Now'',

* 2018 ''Jamilah Sabur: The Rhetoric of the Living'', Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami * 2017 ''If defined, then undefine,'' Dimensions Variable, Miami (solo show)

Collections

Jamilah Sabur's work is included in permanent collections of museums in the US and abroad. *

, Florida *

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, Louisiana * The Bass Museum of Art, Florida *

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, Baltimore *

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Collection

References

External links

Broadway Gallery
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