Exhibition | CUT SCENE (a pseudonym for structure) at The Berrie Center for Performance and Visual Arts, November 06 – December 11, 2025
I am happy to share that I am exhibiting "She Fell From Normalcy," (2016) in CUT SCENE (a pseudonym for structure) at Pascal Gallery. The Show opens November 6th and will run until December 11.
CUT SCENE (a pseudonym for structure) is the Ramapo Curatorial Prize exhibition curated by Katherine C. M. Adams. In this exhibition, public space is fragmented – featured artists expose the vulnerability of social architectures and recast their histories as fiction, cutting into scenes of false coherence.
CUT SCENE (a pseudonym for structure)
November 6 - December 11
Artists: Nairy Baghramian, Jason Hirata, Christie Neptune, Manfred Pernice
Source: CUT SCENE, A PSEUDONYM FOR STRUCTURE - Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts
Read Press Release [HERE]
Exhibition | Shadow/Figure: Selections from the Light Work Collection in the Jeffrey J. Hoone Gallery
I am happy to share that Heads Bowed in Assembled Construction (2018) Light Work’s Fall exhibition. Curated by Victor Rivera, Light Work’s Exhibitions and Collection Coordinator, with donated work by recent artists-in-residence: David Alekhougie, Liz Johnson Artur, Wills Brewer, Gary Burnley, Mercedes Dorame, Sayuri Ichida, Yi Hsuan Lai, Mollie McKinley, Christie Neptune, Ahndraya Parlato, and Bianca and Riel Sturchio. The exhibition will run from Tuesday, September 3 until Friday, October 11, 2024.
“The work was selected first, based on casual visual associations, color palette, or unexpected synchronicity. The theme then followed, emerging out of the artistic micro–climate created by a coalescence of various purposes and approaches of the individual artists. Shadow/Figure as a title is a suggestion for possible routes to take to read the images. In the most literal sense, Shadow/Figure can be seen simply as the visual elements in a photograph. In another reading, the “shadow figure” as an idea references the presence of a spirit or ghostly apparition, or the specter of death and grief. Seen through a psychoanalytical lens, the shadow contains parts of the self that are repressed or concealed from the conscious mind. Or, from a societal perspective, it is suggestive of the most brutal aspects of humanity, including the immeasurable violence humans inflict upon one another and the natural environment, with consequences that reverberate through generations.” —Victor Rivera
The images reflect an atmosphere that is visceral, symbolic, and surreal, with formal and metaphorical connections and meanings, on the surface and beyond.
Source: https://www.lightwork.org/archive/shadow-figure-selections-from-the-light-work-collection/
Shadow/Figure: Selections From The Light Work Collection
September 3 – October 11
Location: Jeffrey J. Hoone Gallery
Curated by Victor Rivera, Light Work’s Exhibitions and Collection Coordinator
Exhibition | Amacord: Fordham Alumni Exhibit, September 1 - October 12, 2021
In Amarcord, a group exhibition curated by Vincent Stracquadan at Fordham University’s Ildiko Butler Gallery, I will be showing Two Miles Deep in La La Land (2007-2012). Amarcord, named after Federico Fellini’s cinematic classic of the same title, features work by alumni of Fordham's visual arts program spanning 20 decades. The exhibition will coincide with the grand opening celebration of thesis studios in the university's visual arts complex at Lincoln Center. Two Miles Deep in La La Land is a 16mm experimental short that foregrounds the pageantry and gendered performance of the female body within the American urban. The film was shot and directed as an undergraduate student in Fordham's visual arts program. In 2012, the film was updated to include a quote by Alice Walker and the birth dates of influential female figures in my life, past and present. Included within this framework are the birth dates of family members, abolitionists, literary authors, leading figures within the women's liberation movement, and self.
Exhibiting artist include: Alex Jahani, Amie Cunat, Anthony Elder, B.A. Van Sise, Brian Jucas, Caitlin Bury, Carl Gunhouse, Christie Neptune, Emma Kilroy, Erin O’Flynn, Ildiko Butler, James McCracken, James Vanderberg, Jenny Drumgoole, Jill Verzino, Jo Rovegno, John Zahran-Colon, Lauren Portada, Luis Edgar Mejicanos, Luke Momo, Martha Clippinger, Masha Bychkova, Mason Saltarreli, Rory Mulligan, Sam, Robbins, Slav Velkov, Ted Partin, Teresa Baker, Tochi Mgbenwelu, Vincent Stracquadanio, and Xuan Clive Zheng
Amarcord
September 1 - October 12, 2021
Featuring Alumni of Fordham's Visual Arts Program
Ildiko Butler Gallery, Fordham University
Curated by Vincent Stracquadan
Opening Reception, September 20, 2024.
Exhibition Link: https://fordhamuniversitygalleries.com/home.html
Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Art at the University of Oxford
I am happy to announce that I will begin research toward a Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Art at the University of Oxford Ruskin School of Art, generously funded by the Clarendon fund!
Last year, I introduced a mode of fine art practice entitled Marked (Black) Axiological Shifts within thesis research at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Utilizing the marked conventions of urban visual culture, relational aesthetics, black feminist geographies, and digital computation, I attempted to move beyond the limits of geographical knowledge in visual articulations of representational space, particularly black space. During my two years at MIT, I scratched the surface of this discursive. With more time, I would like to delve deeper into this discussion, inviting specialists, collaborators from Oxford, and the greater community to participate in the fluid exchange of ideas and knowledge pivoting contemporary technological interventions in black aesthetics.
As a doctoral candidate at Oxford’s Ruskin School of Art, I will strengthen the coherence of my artistic language and approach through practice-led study. I will explore new points of entry into this discursive through the production of new time-based media and writing informed by my creative queries and thesis research.
It is a great honor to accept a course and join the Clarendon community of scholars at the University of Oxford. I look forward with much enthusiasm to making a meaningful contribution to the university’s legacy.
Dominus illuminatio mea. England, here I come. Future Dr. Christie Neptune is on her way!
Worcester Art Museum x University Podcast Feature
Sitting Like Gordon With Bare-Back, Indigo and Shutter Release in Hand, (2018, Unpacking Sameness series) highlighted in @worcesterartmuseum x University podcast . In this model, students provide personal takes on works of art featured within the museum’s permanent collection. It is truly an honor to have my work in conversation.
“To dismantle relations of power imbued within archival knowledge, as an intervention, one would have to remove the context of Western logic, white logic, from the formal praxis of the image. This framework of understanding is best articulated within my multimedia series, Unpacking Sameness (2018). I restage the renowned daguerreotype depicting the enslaved African female, Delia, daughter of Renty (1850). The photograph is one of several daguerreotypes commissioned by Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz to support a theory of black inferiority. The photograph captured by Joseph T. Zealy features Delia’s bare torso within an ethnographic gaze. She is centered within the constructed shot and looks directly at the camera. Her eyes are glazed with tears. The relational system of vis-a-vis within the framed schema pits phenomenological blackness against the camera’s gaze that “others,” “silences,” and “erases.” It communicates to the spectator that Delia is inferior, a subcategory below “human.” One can only imagine the narrative that would unfold had Delia possessed the freedom to look away or the agency of self-representation. As an act of resistance, I made a conscious decision to exclude the framed organization of abject blackness within my artistic intervention. In Sitting Like Delia with Bare-Front, Indigo, and Shutter Release in Hand (2018), I place myself along the same field of reference as Delia, daughter of Renty. However, my eyes refuse the camera’s gaze, and the shutter gripped within my right-hand captures the image of myself. My work in conversation subverts archival knowledge, and operates across the schema of white logic. The camera’s gaze, in this respect, is aligned with my individual act of resistance. […] In the disavowal of Aggazie, Zealy and Brady within the constructed shot, the image can be read as a reclamation of agency, a feminist act of empowerment, a self portrait or a counter-narrative that blurs framed binaries of gender and sex. In either direction, the context of white patriarchal logic is dismantled,” (Neptune 48-50).
-See Christie Neptune, “The Archival As Intervention” in Ah New Riddim: A Marked (Black) Axiological Shift Across Space and Time, masters thesis in MIT Architecture (Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2023), pg 45-50.
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Christie Neptune uses her art to explore how we can honor and recognize black Americans who have been hurt by the history of photography. When subject have no choice in how or when they are photographed, their vulnerability is exploited. Through her works, Neptune gives agency to those who have suffered this fate, providing them with a sense of autonomy that they were not previously offered.
Clark University student Annie Overbaugh offers a personal take on Neptune’s works in the latest episode of the WAM x University podcast, out today. Once you’ve listened to this preview, find the full episode at the link in our bio, and subscribe on Spotify to make sure you hear new episodes when they’re released.
Exhibition | Framing The Female Gaze, Oct 10, 2023 – Jan 20, 2024
I am happy to share that I am exhibiting "A Guild of Light Shining Bright," (2020) in Framing the Female Gaze: Women Artists and the New Historicism at Lehman College Art Gallery. The Show opens October 10, 2023, and will run until January 20, 2024. Opening reception: October 18, 5 - 8 pm.
The works of 45 contemporary women artists are reminiscent of paintings of women by French 19th-century male artists, then are framed by their own new views of women. Sixty works are on view in Framing the Female Gaze: Women Artists and the New Historicism at Lehman College Art Gallery, with a complementary focus exhibition at The Hall of Fame Art Gallery at Bronx Community College.
The women who loom large on canvases, in photographs, prints, sculpture and collage in Framing the Female Gaze vitally connect us to political and social issues and to the cultural and social discriminations that women experience now. The works in this exhibition show how women artists today focus their gaze on both women and men. Artists are magicians: they seek subjects for their work from the past, then with new images change what we thought we knew. The artists in Framing the Female Gaze looked at the art of the 19th-century which marked the beginning of Modernism, of seeing and being seen as conscious subject matter.
The artists exhibiting work in Framing the Female Gaze include Lara Alcantara Lansberg, Lizzy Alejandro, Elise Ansel, Claudia Doring Baez, Cecily Brown, Elinor Carucci, Jordan Casteel, Bhasha Chakrabarti, Katie Commodore, Camille Eskell, Lalla Essaydi, Martha Edelheit, Rose FreymuthFrazier, Scherezade Garcia, Kathleen Gilje, Guerrilla Girls, Eunice Golden, Jenna Gribbon, Mimi Gross, Hilary Harkness, Lewinale Havette, Vera Iliatova, Ayana V. Jackson, Cheyenne Julien, Fay Ku, Yushi Li (in collaboration with Steph Wilson), Shona McAndrew, Marilyn Minter, Jesse Mockrin, Christie Neptune, Deborah Ory and Ken Browar, Phyllis Gay Palmer, Cecilia Paredes, Celeste Rapone, Arlene Rush, Julia Santos Solomon, Sylvia Sleigh, Jessica Spence, Devorah Sperber, Mickalene Thomas, Sharon Wybrants, Judith Wyer, Allison Zuckerman.
Exhibition Venues and Dates:
Lehman College Art Gallery, 250 Bedford Park West, Bronx, NY lehmangallery.org
October 10, 2023 – January 20, 2024 Reception October 18, 5 - 8 pm
Link: https://lehmangallery.org/framing-the-female-gaze/
Exhibition | BUBUIA: The 1st Bienal das Amazônias, August 04 - November 12, 2023
View of exhibition, ground floor, The inaugural Bienal Das Amazonias, Belem Para, Brazil.
I am happy to announce that I am one of the 121 selected artists to participate in the first iteration of the Bienal das Amazônias in Belém, Pará, Amazon. The title for this year’s edition is Bubuia (Female noun: act or effect of floating, floating on water). The bienal launches August 04, 2023 under the seal of the creative quartet: Flavya Mutran, artist and researcher who has been working in the field of Art and Communication since 1989; Keyna Eleison, current artistic director of the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM-RJ), researcher and curator; by independent curator Vânia Leal, specialist in Art History, Master in Communication, Language and Culture; and by Sandra Benites, assistant curator of the Museum of Art of São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP). At the head of the artistic direction of the Bienal das Amazônias is Yasmina Reggad, co-curator of the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022).
Participating artist include: Adriana Varejão, Alvaro Barrington, Anna Bella Geiger, Andreza Aguida, Amanda Leite, Antonieta Feio, Armando Queiroz, Auá - Awá Arã Mura, Aycoobo, Bonikta, Carlos Cruz-Díez, Soemi Amiemba, Victor Kilinan, Marcel Kakaï, Centre d’Art et de Recherche de Mana (CARMA), Carmézia Emiliano, Christian Bendayán, Genoveva Orirepia e Aida Chiqueno, Ana Picanere, Claudia Andujar, Claudia Coca, Cristiana Nogueira, Christie Neptune, Debá Tacana, Denilson Baniwa, Dirceu Maués, Duhigó, Éder Oliveira, Francisco Vera Paz, Elaine Arruda e Mestre João Aires, Elieni Tenório, Elisa Arruda, Elvira Espejo Ayca, Elza Lima, Emanuel Franco, Emmanuel Nassar, Evna Moura, Francelino Mesquita, Francisco da Silva, Theatro Fúria, Gabriel Bicho, Gê Viana, Gervane de Paula, Gerardo Petsaín, Glicéria Tupinambá, Graciela Arias, Gustavo Caboco, Hal Wildson, Hélio Melo, Heldilene Reale, Iwiri-Ki, Jairon Barbosa Gomes, Faísca, Joelington Rios, John Lie-A-Fo, Stéphanie Moreira, Lilly Baniwa, Sereia Caranguejo, Lúcia Gomes, Ti'iwan Couchili, Keyla Sobral, Keila Sankofa, Kenneth Flijders, Kit-Ling Tjon Pian Gi, Lastenia Canayo, Liça Pataxoop, Lise Lobato, Lua Cavalvante, Lova Lova, Manauara Clandestina, Marcel Pinas, Marcela Cantuária, Marcone Moreira, Maria José Batista, Mariano Klautau Filho, Marcos Zacariades, Mary Rodríguez, Miguel Keerveld, Miguel Chikaoka, Miguel Penha, Moara Tupinambá, Nay Jinknss, Nancy La Rosa, Nina Matos, Noara Quintana, Noemí Pérez, NouN e T2i, Pablo Mufarrej, Panmela Castro, Paola Torres Núñes del Prado, Paula Sampaio, Paulo Desana, Pituko Waiãpi, PP Condurú, PV Dias, Rafa Bqueer, Rafael Matheus Moreira, Ramon Reis, Rafael Prado, René Tosari, Roberta Carvalho, Roseman Robinot, Sandra Nanayna, Sãnipã, Sofia Salazar Rosales, Sofía Acosta Varea, Sandra Brewster, Tabita Rezaire, Thiago Martins de Melo, Ueliton Santana, Uýra Sodoma, Gilbertto Prado e Grupo Poéticas, Val Sampaio, Venuca Evanán, Véronique Isabelle e Débora Flor, Walda Marques, Waleff Dias, Xadalu Tupã Jekupé, Xomatok.
Show Run: August 04, 2023 to November 12, 2023
Link: https://www.bienalamazonias.com.br/
Link: https://amlatina.contemporaryand.com/editorial/bienal-das-amazonias/
Event | Light Work 50th Anniversary Print Sale, Oct 05, 2023 - Oct 20, 2024
I am so happy to announce that I am participating in @lightworkorg 50th Anniversary Print Sale Fundraiser! Purchase my print “Promises, Vacant Lots, and The Latency of Urban Renewal,” (Dixwell, New Haven, ca. 2019), 2019 through the link in Light Work’s bio, or at lw50.org.
TWO WEEKS ONLY! Light Work is hosting a print sale fundraiser to celebrate their 50th anniversary as an organization. Their mission is to provide direct support to artists working in photography and related media, through residencies, publications, and a community-access lab facility. 200+ Artists. All Prints $150. All net proceeds support Light Work’s programming. Ends Oct 20 at midnight EST. Link in bio. #LW50thPrintSale
For five decades Light Work has been a springboard for artists working in photography from all over the world. We are mounting this fundraiser to grow our support for the next generation of artists. Over 200 artists have contributed images for this limited-time sale! Don’t miss out!
Light Work was founded as an artist-run non-profit organization in 1973. Light Work’s mission is to provide direct support to emerging and under-recognized visual artists working in photography and related lens based media through artist residencies, exhibitions, projects, and publications. Light Work invites twelve artists to participate in the Artist-in-Residence program every year. More than 500 artists have participated at pivotal early stages in their careers.
Link: https://lw50.org
Artist Talk + Performance | Ah New Riddim, September 16, 2023, 4pm-8pm
Join me closing night for an artist talk and interactive performance highlighting my exhibition and thesis Ah New Riddim at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project space.
Ah New Riddim (2023), is an immersive multi-channel installation and interactive documentary that examines the spatial-temporal relations of memory and place embedded within the implosion of dancehall culture in East Flatbush. The film and installation utilizes 80’s dancehall archival footage of my father, the quiet of black subjectivity, and concentric interactive storytelling to expound the relationship between black globality, and dancehall in the American urban. In a pivot around my embodied experience as a black Caribbean, I consider the potential of popular culture in marking space.
September 16, 2023m 4pm-8pm
Cuchifritos Gallery and Project Space
Inside Essex Market,
88 Essex St #21,
New York, NY 10002
Exhibition Link: https://www.artistsallianceinc.org/event/artist-talk-closing-performance-ah-new-riddim/
Exhibition | Ah New Riddim at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, August 05 - September 16, 2023
Ah New Riddim (2023), is an immersive multi-channel installation and interactive documentary that examines the spatial-temporal relations of memory and place embedded within the implosion of dancehall culture in East Flatbush. The film and installation utilizes 80’s dancehall archival footage of my father, the quiet of black subjectivity, and concentric interactive storytelling to expound the relationship between black globality, and dancehall in the American urban. In a pivot around my embodied experience as a black Caribbean, I consider the potential of popular culture in marking space.
Thank you to every supporter who contributed to make this exhibition happen:
Foundation of Contemporary Art, Artist Alliance Inc., MIT Council for The Arts, Cecile Chong, Emily B. Yang, Tariku Shiferaw, Larry Cook, Ayesha Charles, Jenna Charles, Terence Washington, David Freedman, Claire Watson, Mike Tan, Jodi Waynberg, Micaela Martegani, Jeff Swinton, Carl Hazelwood, Aisha White, Milk Spawn, Cari Sarel, Vivian Chui, Paul So, Camilo Alvarez, Kelsey Scott, Mike Brown, Darla Migan and Mary Lee Hodgens.
August 05, 2023 to September 16, 2023
Cuchifritos Gallery and Project Space
Inside Essex Market,
88 Essex St #21,
New York, NY 10002
Exhibition Link:https://www.artistsallianceinc.org/ah-new-riddim/
Feature | 2023 Tribeca Festival Artist Awards Program
Very excited and honored to be participating in this year’s Tribeca Festival and Chanel Official 2023 Artists Awards Program organized by Racquel Chevremont!
For the 18th Artist Awards Program, the Tribeca Festival and Chanel Official have brought together a remarkable, all-woman cohort of 10 esteemed artists to generously donate original works, which will be presented to winning filmmakers of the Festival.
For more information visit: https://tribecafilm.com/artawards
MS from The MIT School of Architecture and Planning
I did it! I would like to thank everyone who supported me and gave me positive words of encouragement during this process. Thank you MIT for this opportunity to expand my educational horizon. How fortunate I am! #MITCommencement2023 #mitalumni
On View in The “Art Since Mid-20th Century” Permanent Collection Galleries at Worcester Art Museum
I am happy to announce that my works “Sitting Like Gordon With Bare-Back, Indigo, and Shutter Release in Hand” (2018) and “Sitting Like Delia With Bare-Front, Indigo and Shutter Release in Hand”(2018) is currently on view in the “Art since Mid-20th Century” Permanent Collection Galleries, room 321. The works were recently acquired by the museum and I am beyond elated to know that it is displayed on the wall amongst great company (situated between Alice Neel and Reginald Gammons). The works will be on view until June 19, 2022. Thank you Nancy Kathryn Burns and and Grant Wahlquist Gallery for overseeing this acquisition! If you are in the Massachusetts area, please check it out!
On view until June 30, 2022
Sidney and Rosalie Rose Gallery, Room 321
Worcester Art Museum
Link: https://worcester.emuseum.com/collections/50172/recent-wam-acquisitions/objects/images?page=7&sort=title-asc
Somewhere in Advance of Nowhere: Freedom Dreams in Contemporary Art Curated by Nico Wheadon.
Installation display at Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art.
I am pleased to announce that I will be showing work from my "Unpacking Sameness" Series in "Somewhere in Advance of Nowhere: Freedom Dreams in Contemporary Art" Curated by Nico Wheadon. “Somewhere in Advance of Nowhere: Freedom Dreams in Contemporary Art” lauds the vital role of artists in dismantling broken systems, envisioning new shared realities, and building future alternatives.
The exhibition features the works of Derrick Adams, The Black School & Bryan Lee Jr., Phoebe Boswell, Jesse Chun, Abigail DeVille, Zachary Fabri, Ja’Tovia Gary, Golden, Kordae Henry, Iyapo Repository, Jarrett Key, Yashua Klos, Miguel Luciano, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Zora J Murff, Jordan Nassar, Wanda Raimundi Ortiz, Devan Shimoyama, Xaviera Simmons and I.
February 5 – April 10, 2022
Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery and North Gallery
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
Exhibition Link: https://www.newpaltz.edu/museum/exhibitions/freedom-dreams/
Worcester Art Museum’s Acquisition of diptych from “Unpacking Sameness” Series
A Catalog of works archived at the Worcester Museum of Art.
I am thrilled to announce the Worcester Art Museum’s acquisition of Sitting Like Gordon With Bare-Back, Indigo, and Shutter Release in Hand, 2018 (pictured above), and Sitting Like Delia With Bare-Front, Indigo and Shutter Release in Hand, 2018. Many thanks to the Worcester Art Museum and Grant Wahlquist Gallery for their support!
Link: https://worcester.emuseum.com/objects/57838/sitting-like-gordon-with-bareback-indigo-and-shutter-relea
Link: https://worcester.emuseum.com/objects/57839/sitting-like-delia-with-barefront-indigo-and-shutter-relea
Unpacking Sameness Receives the Médéos prize at Art-O-Rama
I am happy to share that I received the Médéos prize for Unpacking Sameness at the Art-O-Rama Art Fair with Grant Wahlquist Gallery. It is a great honor to receive this award and I am very grateful to Médéos, to the committee advising the prize, and to Art-o-rama.
Médéos has at its core humanity and altruism, and it is represented through its collaborators, the residents, and their relatives. Exchange, transmission of each and everyone’s culture, and togetherness are what constitute the daily relationships within every institution.
Art is a carrier of this transmission that establishes, crystalizes, and enhances everyone’s individual story. It creates a bond.
The Prizes will reward with an acquisition an artist for his/her work on memory, individual/collective story, transmission. The jury will be composed of directing members of the group, collaborators, and an art professional, as well as a consulting member of Art-o-rama.
The work of art will then be exhibited at the headquarters of the group or in one of the institutions. It will be inaugurated at the occasion of an opening, a moment of harmony with the different actors of the institutions in order to consider the artwork and present it, along with mediation tools, so that everyone can grab hold of it.
Link: https://art-o-rama.fr/exhibitor/medeos/
Link: https://fraeme.art/art-o-rama
2021 Cornell Tech \Art Award
I have been selected for the 2021 Cornell Tech \Art Award. This initiative which begins this July supports bleeding-edge technological interventions into artistic practice.
\Art collides students, faculty, and artists, both on and off-campus, providing grants for artworks, art tools, and art activities that engage the latest emerging digital technologies. For the course of this project, I will be working with a Cornell Tech fellow to produce an interactive short film that explores issues centered around the intersections of race, class, and gender.
Link: https://backslashart.org/
2021 Workspace Program Artist at Penumbra Foundation
I am one of the artists selected for the 2021 Workspace Program at Penumbra Foundation. I will be in residence for the month of July. While in residence, I will be working to further develop works from my forthcoming series, Nah Climb Laddah To Tun Big Woman.
Nah Climb Laddah To Tun Big Woman (Working Title) is new work in progress that explores the traditional and customary cultural practices of my upbringing as a first-generation American of Guyanese and Trinidadian descent. The title, a combination of both Guyanese and Trinidadian dialects, stems from the Guyanese proverb of like “Lil boy nah climb ladder to turn big man.” It translates to mean: “Only time can make you what you will be.” Through self-portraiture, still life, and abstraction, Nah Climb Laddah […] draws a deeper understanding on cultural pluralism and the continuum from traditional to wholly acculturated within America. Through collected oral histories and large format portraits, new work developed through my residency will examine the convergence of two cultural spheres within a bi-cultural identity.
I began development of this project while in residence at Light Work. I am overjoyed to be presented with the opportunity to further development on this series during the summer. I will be using the Penumbra Foundation facilities to create large-format portraits, hi-res scans, and darkroom prints.
Link: https://www.penumbrafoundation.org/christie-neptune
Social Works Curated by Antwuan Sargent at Gogasian
Presenting new work: Constructs and Context Relativity: Performance II in Social Works curated by Antwaun Sargent at Gagosian New York, June 24 to September 11, 2021. I am truly honored and humbled to be given this opportunity to exhibit amongst a roster of great artists whom I admire!
Social Works, is an exhibition exploring Black social practice as it relates to space in the museum, the gallery, and the community. Social Works will feature paintings, sculptures, photographs, and installations by David Adjaye, Theaster Gates, Linda Goode Bryant, Lauren Halsey, Titus Kaphar, Rick Lowe, and Carrie Mae Weems as well as former NXTHVN Studio Fellows: Zalika Azim, Allana Clarke, Kenturah Davis, Alexandria Smith and I.
For more information, please visit: https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2021/social-works-curated-by-antwaun-sargen
Curatorial Project: SYSTEMS ENTWINED April 2 - May 29, 2021
I am pleased to present ”Systems Entwined,” my first curatorial project at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space featuring the works of Luba Drozd, Antonia Kuo, Keisha Scareville, and A young Yu.
This exhibition is made possible through my residency with Artists Alliance inc. LES Studio Program. The show opens Friday, April 2, 2021 and will run through May 29, 2021.
In Systems Entwined, visual artists Luba Drozd, Antonia Kuo, Keisha Scarville, and A young Yu examine a collision of systems within natural and built environments. In a multidisciplinary exposition of works across photography, video, sculpture, performance, and sound, each artist explores disintegration that reimagines and subverts logical thinking. Artificial forms superimposed on natural environments collapse binary divisions in space. Unorthodox processes yield fragmentation that distorts and repurposes ordinary objects and surfaces. Each work is anchored by a subversive methodology that destabilizes time and meaning to produce contemplative terrains which evoke a range of associations from transcendent spirituality to the immaterial and abstract.
Link: https://www.artistsallianceinc.org/systems-entwined/
Two Miles Deep in La La Land at Fordham University Galleries
I am pleased to announce that I will be screening Two Miles Deep in La La Land, 2007-2012, exclusively on Fordham University online galleries. Two Miles Deep in La La Land is an experimental short film produced by Christie Neptune as an undergraduate in Fordham University's Department of Visual Arts (Lincoln Center). In 2012, The film was given a new context, including dates exploring Neptune's family's lineage and a quote by Alice Walker: "I want something else, a different system entirely. One not seen on this earth for thousands of years. If ever."
Link: https://fordhamuniversitygalleries.com/artwork/4786152-Two-Miles-Deep-In-La-La-Land-2007-2012.html
Fordham University
Department of Theatre and Visual Arts
113 West 60th Street, Room 423, New York, NY 10023-7414
ID:Formations of The Self, a Group Show at BMCC Shirley Fiterman Art Center
I am pleased to announce that I will be exhibiting works from Unpacking Sameness, in a group show entitled, ID: Formations of The Self at the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) Shirley Fiterman Art Center. Like so many art, culture, and educational institutions, the Shirley Fiterman Art Center has remained closed due to the current pandemic. This separation from art and social activity has created for many an acute longing to physically connect with people, artwork, and tangible experiences in real-time and space. In an effort to bridge this gap and, at the same time, offer a safe experience, the Fiterman Art Center is mounting an exhibition fully visible from the exterior of Fiterman Hall through large street-front windows on Barclay Street, Park Place, and West Broadway. The exhibition and exhibition brochure, as well as related video content, will also all be fully available online.
ID: Formations of the Self focuses on the work of eight artists who work in a broad range of mediums. All, in varying modes, investigate aspects of identity and the ways in which individuals are shaped. Through explorations of place, gender, race, sexuality, the body, cultural traditions, and social and personal histories, each artist offers insight into how these elements inform and constitute our individual selves. Their works reveal the multiple overlapping facets and complex intersections that constitute our identities.
The participating artists are LaKela Brown, Rachelle Dang, Jesse Harrod, Athena LaTocha, Emily Velez Nelms, Christie Neptune, Anna Plesset, and Joan Semmel.
Show link: https://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/sfac/id-formations-of-the-self-page/
Show runs September 15 - February 19, 2021
Shirley Fiterman Art Center
81 Barclay Street
New York, NY 10007
Memories From Yonder featured in “Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora”
“Memories From Yonder,” 2015, a photo and video project created during my Engaging Artist Fellowship at More Art, along with an essay I wrote is featured in Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora, edited by Grace Aneiza. Liminal Spaces is an intimate exploration into the migration narratives of fifteen women of Guyanese heritage. It spans diverse inter-generational perspectives – from those who leave Guyana, and those who are left – and seven seminal decades of Guyana’s history – from the 1950s to the present day – bringing the voices of women to the fore. The volume is conceived of as a visual exhibition on the page; a four-part journey navigating the contributors’ essays and artworks, allowing the reader to trace the migration path of Guyanese women from their moment of departure, to their arrival on diasporic soils, to their reunion with Guyana.
I am honored to be apart of this project. To preview the book please visit:
Link: https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/liminal-spaces-migration-and-women-of-the-guyanese-diaspora-ed-by-grace-aneiza-ali/
FIVE at We Buy Gold
I am screening “Two Miles Deep In La La Land,” 2007-2012, in a powerful online exhibit entitled, FIVE. The exhibit is produced by We Buy Gold and Nina Chanel Abney and features an amazing roster of Artists! Donations to the show will go to Project Eats COVID-19 Healthy Food Initiative.
The show runs June 15, 2020 - June 30, 2020.
http://five.webuygold.wtf/
Sower at Rubber Factory
I am pleased to announce that I will be exhibiting new work in Sower, a group show at Rubber Factory inspired by Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. The show runs December 19, 2019 to January 26, 2019. Exhibiting artist include: Mo Kong, Ranee Henderson, Anjuli Rathod, Zoe Avery Nelson, Raya Terran, Tammy Nguyen, Beverly Acha, Sonia Louise Davis and I.
Opening Reception on December 19, 6pm to 8pm
Rubber Factory
29c Ludlow Street
New York NY 10002
United States
Link: https://rubberfactory.nyc/Group-Shows
Mickalene Thomas: Better Nights at Bass Museum
I am honored to be included in Mickalene Thomas: Better Nights at Bass Museum. The installation embodies an apartment environment, conceptually reconstructed according to the domestic aesthetic of the period, including faux wood paneling, wallpaper and custom seating reupholstered with the artist’s signature textiles. An extension of Thomas’ artistic universe, the installation incorporates both work by the artist and a curated selection by Thomas featuring work by emerging and prominent artists of color. Show runs December 01, 2019 to September 27, 2020. Exhibiting artists include: painting and photography by Nina Chanel Abney, Derrick Adams, David Antonio Cruz, Lyle Ashton Harris, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Xaviera Simmons, John Edmonds, Alexandria Smith, Adrienne Raquel, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Micaiah Carter;and video work by Devin Morris, Brontez Purnell, Ja’Tovia Gary and I selected by Jasmine Wahi from Project for Empty Space. Essential to this project, Thomas has created a program of live performances and appearances featuring Jody Watley, Meshell Ndegeocello, QUIÑ, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Mashonda Tifrere, Devin Tracy, CHIKA, among others, as well as live DJ sets by Derrick Adams, YISSEL, Mel, Val, Dimples, Wavy Fox and Papi Juice, among others.
I am forever inspired and grateful for the support and mentorship from Thomas! For more information on Mickalene Thomas: Better Nights at Bass Museum, please visit the link below.
Show runs, December 01, 2019 to January 31, 2021
The Bass Museum of Art
2100 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Link: https://thebass.org/art/mickalene-thomas/
NXTHVN First-Year Fellows Exhibition at Tilton Gallery
I am pleased to announce that I will be presenting new works in “NXTHVN: First Year Fellows,” an exhibition of work by the first group of Fellows to complete their year at NXTHVN; a new Residency founded by Titus Kaphar, Jonathan Brand and Jason Price. The exhibition showcases works by the seven Studio Fellows, Felipe Baeza, Jaclyn Conley, Kentura Davis, Merik Goma, Alexandria Smith, Vaughn Spann and I along with a joint publication produced by the three Curatorial Fellows, Zalika Azim, Riham Majeed and Ana Tuazon. Show runs November 5, 2019 to January 18, 2019.
TILTON GALLERY
8 East 76 Street
New York, NY 10021
Link: https://jacktiltongallery.com/exhibitions/current/
I am pleased to announce that I am one of the artists selected to receive the 2020 Light Work Artist in Residence. Every year Light Work invites between twelve and fifteen artists to come to Syracuse to devote one month to creative projects. Residency program participants have the opportunity to use their month to pursue their own projects: photographing in the area, scanning, printing for a specific project or experimenting with a new photographic technique. The residency includes a stipend, a furnished artist apartment, 24-hour access to our state-of-the-art facilities, and generous staff support. Work by each Artist-in-Residence is published in a special edition of Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual, along with an essay commissioned by Light Work. Work by former Artists-in-Residence is also part of the Light Work Collection.
Link: https://www.lightwork.org/news/announcing-the-2020-light-work-artists-in-residence/
2020 LES Studio Program, a program of Artists Alliance Inc. New York, NY
I am pleased to announce that I am one of the artists selected to receive the 2020 LES Studio Residency with Artists Alliance Inc. The LES Studio Program is a three or six months residency program open to under-represented, emerging and mid-career professional working artists. The residency offers 24-hour studio access, the opportunity to present work to curators and critics through AAI-organized studio visits, a curated exhibition at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space and exposure to a broadened general audience during bi-annual Open Studios. I will be in Residence for 6 months, December 15, 2019 - May 31, 2020.
Link: http://artistsallianceinc.org/programs/les-studio-program/christie-neptune
Constructs and Context Relativity Proposal, A 2019 Finalist for BRIC ArtFP
I am pleased to announce that I am one of the six artists selected to receive the 2019-20 ArtFP commission. With the award, BRIC will support the selected visual artists in creating and presenting exhibitions in spaces throughout BRIC House.
BRIC ArtFP is an annual open request for proposals (RFP) from emerging and established local visual artists to explore and expand the possibilities of their work. With this commissioning program led by BRIC’s Contemporary Art program, artists receive honorariums and production fees for exhibition of their work in the Project Room or Hallway spaces. This opportunity includes assistance with development time, installation, marketing, documentation, and more.
ArtFP artists will showcase their projects between Fall 2019 and Summer 2020. Finalists receive an honorarium, exhibition space in either the Project Room or Hallway space of BRIC House, technical and installation support, artistic mentoring, marketing and promotional support, photography documentation, and a reception leading to a 2-3 month showing of their work.
Links:
https://www.bricartsmedia.org/bric-announces-2019-finalists-bric-artfp
https://www.bricartsmedia.org/blog/congratulations-our-2019-2020-artfp-artists
Untitled 70 featured in the group exhibit: EBSPLOITATION at Martos Gallery
My experimental short, Untitled 70, (2014) will be featured in EBSPLOTATION, a group exhibit organized by Ebony L. Haynes at Martos Gallery. The show will run June 21 - August 2, 2019. Featured artists include: Akeem Smith, Alima Lee, American Artist, Arthur Jafa, Billy Gerard Frank, Carolyn Lazard, Cauleen Smith, Christopher Udemezue, David Roy, Devin Kenny, Devin Troy Strother, Jacolby Satterwhite, Jazmine Hayes, Jessica Vaughn, Kandis Williams, Kayode Ojo, Leilah Weinraub, Mandy Harris Williams, Pope.L, Shikeith Cathey, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Wendell Bruno and more.
Link: http://www.martosgallery.com/upcoming
Memories From Yonder featured in “Women in Migration: Responses in Art and History”
Memories From Yonder, a photo and video project created during my Engaging Artist Fellowship at More Art, is featured in Chapter 36 "The Ones Who Leave...the Ones Who Are Left: Guyanese Migration Story," an essay written by Grace Anzeia Ali for "Women in Migration: Responses in Art and History;" edited by Deborah Willis, Ellyn Toscano and Kalia Brooks Nelson. Women in Migration weaves together an artistic and film studies approach with social history and personal testimonials in its broad account of movement and displacement. This edited eight-part volume features authors spanning many different nations covering the interdisciplinary themes of war, politics, love and indigeneity. I am very honored to be included and featured amongst phenomenal women!
Link: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/840
NXTHVN Studio Fellowship
I am pleased to announce that I am one of the 7 studio artists along with 3 curators selected for the inaugural year of the NXTHVN Fellowship in New Haven, CT. Selected Studio Artists receive a professional studio space and a generous stipend to cover material expenses throughout the Fellowship year. In addition to participation in a culminating group exhibit, Studio Fellows have the unique opportunity to form new creative partnerships within the art communities at Yale University, as well as in Greater New Haven and New York City.
Link: https://www.nxthvn.com/meet-the-fellows
Unpacking Sameness Performance & Artist Talk at NURTUREart
Doors at 6:30 pm, with refreshments
Performance at 7 pm
