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Sabrina Nelson

Painter, College for Creative Studies (CCS) alumna. Kresge Fellow in the Visual Arts 2021. Also a recipient of the 2022 Women's Caucus for Arts (WCA) Lifetime Achievement Award.

Current exhibition

• Frontline Prophet: James Baldwin, at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 315 E. Warren in Detroit. Opened August 2 and slated to run to February 28.

Upcoming exhibitions

• Girlhood at Detroit Artists Market hosted at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. With featured artist Nina Ashraf. Slated to open March 14, with a reception from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., and run to April 6.

Plus various other plans.

Past exhibitions

This is an incomplete listing.

• Skilled Labor: Black Realism in Detroit at the Cranbrook Art Museum, 39221 Woodward Ave, Bloomfield Hills. October 28, 2023 — March 3, 2024.
• Resonance | Reverence at Galerie Camille, curated by Dalia Reyes and guest curator Dayana Juarez. March 3 — 25, 2023.
• He Is Clover at Live Coal Gallery. January 26, 2022 — February 23, 2023.
• The Collective Spirit at Live Coal Gallery. November 17, 2022 — January 12, 2023.
• I Had a Prayin' Grandmother at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center. August 26, 2022 — November 3, 2022.
• Medicine in the Mirror at Detroit Contemporary, 487 W. Alexandrine, Detroit. March 5 — 27, 2022.
• Womxnhouse Detroit at the Norwest Gallery of Art (off-site). September 18, 2021 — October 23, 2021.
• NINA at the Norwest Gallery of Art. June 12, 2021 — July? ??, 2021.
• ¿Gender?, curated by Gary Eleinko, at Detroit Artists Market. May 7, 2021 — June 5, 2021.
• Hard / Soft at Galerie Camille. March 19, 2021 — April 17, 2021.
• Blackbird & Paloma Negra: The Mothers, solo show at Galerie Camille. September 4, 2020 — October 3, 2020.
• perSIStence at Collected Detroit. May 3, 2019 — June 7, 2019.
• Détroit Noir: A Celebration of the Black Aesthetic at the Norwest Gallery of Art. February 10 — 28, 2018.
• Black Lives, with Richard Lewis, Mario Moore and Rashaun Rucker at the CCS Center Galleries. November 10, 2017 — December 16, 2017.
• ...many, many more...

External links

• CCS alumni profile page

News

• Layla McMurtrie, "Sabrina Nelson brings the spirit of James Baldwin to Detroit", Metro Times, August 7 — 13, 2024, p. 40.

Reviews

• Nichole M. Christian, "88 Sabrina Nelson", Essay'd, December 22, 2017. "Frida Kahlo ... is the subject of one of her signature works, Me & Frida, Whole Heart/Her Hurt (2015), an acrylic on board that juxtaposes vibrant colors with a subtle and bloody commentary on Kahlo›s infamous heartbreak. ... What Nelson sees in Kahlo—an unyielding spirit of freedom and fiery femininity—partly explains why she has mostly trained her pen, pencils and paint brushes on women."