Crystal AM Nelson
Education
2010
MFA Photography, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2003
BA English, Summa Cum Laude, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
2001-2002
African Studies, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Exhibitions
2012
Luggage Store Window Projection Series, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011
2nd Ghetto Biennale, Grand Rue, Port-au-Prince, Haiti (upcoming)
2010
Bodies in Space(s): Negotiating Sites/Sights, Madrone Art Bar, San Francisco, CA
Vernissage: SFAI MFA Thesis Exhibition, Herbst Pavilion, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
MOMENTS (Bringing Back the Now): 100 Performances for the Hole group show, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
Guess Who? group show, Goforaloop Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009
Invisible Homes group show, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
Living Archives group show, Swell Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
Mi Tierra, Mi Corazon group show, Gallery 550, Oakland, CA
Without Themed Biennial, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Westwood, CA (catalogue)
Filthy Treats group show, Diego Rivera Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, CA
2007
The Walkers (aka People You May Think I Know), Diego Rivera Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, CA
Covert Issues, Stillights Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, CA
2006
Untitled, Swell Gallery group show, SFAI, San Francisco, CA
Men are Human Too group show, Javaology, Atlanta GA
2005
Journeys, Wood Is Wonderful Gallery group show, Atlanta, GA
Who's Buying Black Art: 100 of Atlanta's Best Artists Under One Roof, 185 Peters Street group show, Atlanta, GA
postcards from the end of the rainbow, Vantage Pointe Studios, Atlanta, GA
2004
The Paper Show, Gallery 402 group show, New York, NY
postcards from the end of the rainbow, AS220, Providence, RI
2001
Stellenbosch University Theater Department Film Screening, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Curatorial Experience
2012
Kanaval SF/LA, in development for SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2011
YBCA Grand Lobby Repurposing Project with CCA Furniture Design Department and Council Design
2010
TASTE!, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Listening Party, Queen's Nails Projects, San Francisco, CA
2009
Filthy Treats group show and Filthy Treats readings, Diego Rivera Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, CA
Awards & Honors
2011 Visions from the New California Award, fellowship and residency
Honorable Mention, 2010 Paul Sack Building Award
Professional MembershipsACASA
New Media Caucus
Teaching Experience
Spring 2011
Adjunct Instructor, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2008–09
Teaching Assistantships, San Francisco Art Institute
Fall 2008, Critical Art Writing Workshop; Assistant to Mark Van Proyen
Spring 2009, Performing Race Seminar; Assistant to Allan deSouza
Related Work Experience
Present
Independent Consultant
[camn] creative arts and media network
2007–2011
Graphic Designer
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Summer 2009
Low-Residency Co-Director
Diego Rivera Gallery—SFAI, San Francisco, CA
Select Publications
REVIEWS
“From Los Angeles: Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980”, Art Practical, Issue 3.3
“From Los Angeles: Posing Beauty in African American Culture” Art Practical, Issue 3.1
“From Los Angeles: Mirror House,” Art Practical, Issue 3.1
“Betye Saar: CAGE: A New Series of Assemblages and Collages,” Art Practical, Issue 2.22
“Ranu Mukherjee: Absorption into the Nomadic and Luminous,” Art Practical, Issue 2.19
“Deana Lawson,” Art Practical, Issue 2.17
"Welcome to the Vanishing Point:"- http://www.identitytheory.com- December 4, 2005
ESSAYS
"Automatic Superstar" - http://www.identitytheory.com, June 14, 2005
Ten articles in the African American National Biography Anthology, Ed. Gates, Henry Louis Jr., Evelyn Brooks
Higginbotham, Oxford University Press, pending publication
Visiting Artist Lectures
2010
San Francisco State University