Carl E. Hazlewood

Born - Georgetown, Guyana, (US citizen)

 

EDUCATION and AWARDS

MA - Hunter College of City University of NY

BFA - Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (with honors),

Rosalie Petrash Schmidt Memorial Award, Pratt Institute, NY?

Edward Arthur Mellinger Educational Foundation Scholarship, Chicago, Ill.?

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, (scholarship) Skowhegan, Maine

Brooklyn Museum School Max Beckmann International Award for Advanced Study, Brooklyn, NY

ART CAKE - Multi-year Studio Residency, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY 2020-22?

Art Omi International Artists Residency — The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Fellow, Ghent, NY, 2016 & Summer 2020

VCCA (Virginia Center for the Creative Arts) - William G. Sackett Fellow, Fall-Winter 2019 & the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Fellow, Amherst, Virginia, Summer-Fall 2017

The Brown Foundation Fellows Program at the Dora Maar House, (administered by MFAH-The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), Ménerbes, France, Summer & Winter 2018

The Bogliasco Foundation (Fellow) Liguria Study Center for the Arts & Humanities, Village of Bogliasco, Italy, Fall 2018?

Dieu Donné - WorkSpace residency - Brooklyn, NY 2018

Abrons Center for the Arts - AIRspace residency, New York, NY 2018

Tree of Life Foundation grant, 2017

NARS Foundation, Fellowship, New York, Fall 2017

HEADLANDS Center for the Arts, AIR, Sausalito, CA, Summer 2017

YADDO - Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, NY Winter 2016 – 2017

MacDowell Colony - MacDowell Fellow; Whiting Foundation Writer’s Aid Program     Award; The TransCanada Fellow, Peterborough, NH, Fall 2015-16

BRIC - 2015 Visual Artist’s Residency, Brooklyn, NY Summer 2015

Triangle Artist’s Workshop - NY, Summer 2012 & 2015 & 2019

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022     Carl E. Hazlewood: Demerara Dream: Triptych Paintings: EMERARA DREAM: 1997 – 2003, David Richard Gallery, New York, NY, Feb., 2022

             Black Lyricism, Work on Paper, Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, February 2022

2021    RE-EMERGENT - New Wall-Work, ART CAKE, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY, May-June 2021

2020    Carl E. Hazlewood: Drawings & Collages, June Kelly Gallery,  New York, NY, January - March 2020

2019    Swimming Blind in a Wine-Dark Sea, Ortega y Gasset Projects, (also a project of The BRIC Biennial, Volume Three), NY, February 2019

2018    BlackLine Guardians for a Modernist Caveman, Grotto Gallery of The Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France, 2018

           PRESENT/CONTINUOUS, NARS Foundation (Project Space), Brooklyn, NY, 2018

2017   TRAVELER, Knockdown Center for the Arts, 52ft mural commission, Maspeth, Queens, NY 2017

2016   Brooklyn Quotidian, FiveMyles, (Photography Installation), Brooklyn, NY, May - June 2016

2014   Carl E. Hazlewood - Weights and Measures, Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Wall work & photographs, Brooklyn, NY, September - October, 2014

2013   Temporality and Objects: New Installations & Photographs, Aljira A Center for Contemporary Art, October - December 2013

 

EXHIBITIONS

2022    Formations, The 2022 Southeast Queens Biennial, The York College Fine Arts Gallery & Rufus King Manor Museum, Queens, NY, January - April 2022

2021    BAU N ° 18 - A container of Contemporary Culture, Cultural Association BAU, Viareggio, Italy 2021

            Points of Contact, PRIZM Art Fair, curated by Mikhaile Solomon, November 2021

2020    Visions 1020, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, photography curated by Beuford Smith, March-May 2020

            E/AB  Fair 2020 (Editions/Artists’ Books Fair) with Dieu Donné, NY, October 2020

2019     Photography: The Landscape:Exterior/ Interior”, Bertha V.B. Lederer Gallery, Brodie Hall, SUNY, curated by Dr. Cynthia Hawkins, Geneseo, NY, October - December 2019

             Knapsack, Marisa Newman Projects, C. Hazlewood & Stacy Fisher - (2 person) 2019

2017     Summer Exhibition, SKOTO Gallery, Chelsea, NY June - July 2017

             LIMINAL SPACE, CCCADI (Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute),New York, NY, June - November 2017

2016     PRIZM Art Fair, RUSH Gallery, Miami, FL 2016

             The Warmth of Winter, National Arts Club, (showed photography), New York, NY, Winter 2016-2017

             The 91 Violence, Repair the World, Jonathan Allen, curator, New York, NY 2016

             Handmade Abstract, BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY, September - October 2015

            100 Works on Paper, Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY, April 2016

            RUSH 20th Anniversary Print Portfolio, VOLTA Art Fair, New York, NY, March 2016

            SELECT 2016, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC, March 2016

2015    RUSH Philanthropic Arts Foundation’s 20th Anniversary               

              Print Portfolio, SCOPE Art Fair, Miami, FL, December 2015

2014     The Wall, Brooklyn Fire Proof Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, April 2014

             Aljira at 30 - Dreams and Reality, New Jersey State Museum, March - September 2014

             Be a Cloud Not a Grid, Vertigo Art Space, Denver, CO, January 2014

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

50 West Street - The Francis J. Greenberger Collection, NY

The Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France

Johnson and Johnson, Inc, NJ

OMI International Art Center, Ghent, NY

Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, São Paulo – Brazil

Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana

The Schomburg Center Collections, New York; NY

The National Collection of Fine Arts, Castellani House, Guyana, South America

Borough of Manhattan Community College; CUNY

Department of the Treasury, State of NJ

New Jersey State Council on the Arts, NJ

State Legislative Buildings, Albany, NY

Wilson Industries, Houston, Texas

Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas

Booker Bros., McConnel and Co., London, England

 

PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW

Visual Artist, curator and writer. Hazlewood co-founded Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art (1984-2018) in Newark, NJ, which celebrated 30 years with the exhibition, ‘Aljira at 30 – Dreams and Reality’, co-curated by Hazlewood, for the New Jersey State Museum, 2014.

 

Lectured in Art History at New Jersey City University, and was visiting critic at various institutions, most recently, Ithaca College, (2020), and Pratt Institute, (2019), and . Currently associate editor for ‘Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art’, (Duke University), and ‘The Arts Journal: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Literature, History, Art and Culture of Guyana and the Caribbean’, Georgetown, Guyana. His writing has appeared in many other periodicals, including ‘Flash Art International’, Rome; ‘ART PAPERS Magazine’, Atlanta, and ‘NY Arts Magazine’. Recent contributions of essays to catalogues and books include, ‘Terry Adkins: RECITAL', Tang Museum, Skidmore University, Saratoga, and the Samuel Dorsky Museum book/catalogue, “Andrew Lyght - FULL CIRCLE”.

 

Hazlewood, an elected member of AAA (American Abstract Artists, founded 1932), has worked as project consultant, curator, and/or writer for many organizations. Lately was curatorial adviser for BRIC’s project: ‘The BRIC Biennial, Volume Two’, Brooklyn, NY, Fall 2016.  Hazlewood organized ‘Modern Life’, in1995 co-curated with Okwui Enwezor for Aljira (in association with the Newark Museum). It is among numerous projects he has organized for Aljira over the years.       

 

Hazlewood’s prize-winning project, ‘Current Identities, Recent Painting in the United States,’ was the USA (Federal Advisory Committee on International Exhibitions) official presentation at the ‘Cuenca Bienal International de Pintura,’ Ecuador 1994. It traveled for three years to eleven other countries & museums in Latin America. As Independent curator he organized ‘Contemporary Filipino Photography’ with the late David Medalla (UK), for the Philippines Consulate, NYC. A brief listing of curatorial projects include those for The Nathan Cummings Foundation, NY; Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Hallwalls, NY; Artists Space, NY; P.S.122, NY, among many other venues. He’s written catalogues for The Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois; The Ben Shahn Center, William Paterson University, NJ; The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, and others.