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 Memberships

ACASA

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