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Tylonn Sawyer

Painter, youth program producer at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, resident at the Red Bull House of Art (Cycle 4). Alum of the New York Academy of Art and of Eastern Michigan University. Recipient of the Peter T. Rippon Travel Award for independent study at the Royal Academy of Art in London. Recipient of the Alain Locke Award in 2019. Kresge Fellow in the Visual Arts 2019.

Current exhibition

• Skilled Labor: Black Realism in Detroit at the Cranbrook Art Museum, 39221 Woodward Ave, Bloomfield Hills. Opened October 28 and slated to run to March 3.
• Drawing... a line goes for a walk, at the Detroit location of David Klein Gallery. Opened February 3 and slated to run to March 16.

Upcoming exhibitions

Various plans.

Past exhibitions

• Overture, with Sydney James, Rashaun Rucker and Scheherazade Washington at Detroit Artists Market. June 25, 2021 — July 24, 2021.
• Year of the Flood at the N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art. February 26, 2021 — June 19, 2021.
• Multifaceted Narratives: An Exploration of Black Figurative Art, curated by Juana Williams, at Detroit Artists Market. August 14, 2020 — September 12, 2020.
• We Used to Gather at Library Street Collective. July 18, 2020 — September 18, 2020.
• Salon at David Klein Gallery (Detroit location). September 14, 2019 — November 2, 2019.
• All Media Exhibition at Detroit Artists Market (juror). January 18, 2019 — February 16, 2019.
• American Gods at the N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art. June 22, 2018 — September 8, 2018.
• Art @ The Max II at the Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center. April 27, 2017 — ?? ?, 2018?
• The Detroiter at Heron Arts in San Francisco (in collaboration with Inner State Gallery). July 30, 2016 — ???.
• 15 Steps: Perspectives in Drawing at the Red Bull House of Art. June 11, 2016 — July 16, 2017.
• The "Alumni" Exhibition, featuring one piece each from almost every artist who's gone through the Red Bull House of Art program. May 21, 2015 — September 6, 2015.
• The Essential Self: Meditations on the Politics of Identity at Detroit Artists Market. June 12, 2015 — July 18, 2015.
• Chronicles at Valade Family Gallery
• Detroit @CTAC at Crooked Tree Art Center
• Black Women Rock 2014: The Exhibition at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
• Identity at the N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art
• Small Business Saturday at Corktown Studios
• Naked or Nude at North End Studios
• ...many more going back to 1996...

External links

• CCS faculty profile page

News

• Sonia Khaleel, "2019 Kresge Artist Fellows and Gilda Award recipients announced", Metro Times, June 20, 2019.
• Lee DeVito, "An alternative to that 'Vulture' list of Detroit artists", Metro Times, February 6, 2015.
• Alan Stamm, "A Source Guide for Detroit Articles: 9 Emerging Artists Who Aren't White", Deadline Detroit, February 6, 2015.
• Alonso del Arte, "9 artists who live in Detroit", Examiner.com, January 6, 2015.
• Kahn Santori Davison, "After 8 years on the sidelines, Tylonn J. Sawyer has emerged ", Metro Times, December 24, 2014.
• Emell Derra Adolphus, "Tylonn Sawyer: Youth Program Producer at MOCAD", BLAC Detroit, April 2014.

Reviews

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