T.ELIOTT MANSA
Born in 1977 in Miami, FL
Lives/Works in Miami, FL
EDUCATION
M.F.A. Hunter College, New York – 2018
Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT – 2013
B.F.A. University of Florida/New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL – 2000
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (3 semesters of coursework)
PROFESSORS
Hunter College
Nari Ward
Carrie Moyer
Juan Sanchez
Drew Beattie
Daniel Bozhkov
Lisa Corinne Davis
Paul Ramirez Jonas
Thomas Weaver
Yale School of Art
Robert Storr
Robert Reed
Sam Messer
Rochelle Feinstein
Byron Kim
Anoka Faruqee
William Villalongo
Sarah Oppenheimer
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
The African American Museum of the Arts
Deland, FL
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
The Ricardo Pau-Llosa Collection
The Collection of Recording Artist KRS-ONE
The Collection of Carter Wiggins LCSW, SAP
The Collection of Linda Adler
The Collection of Rosario Martinez-Cañas
The Collection of Andrew and Penny Needle
AWARDS
Thalheimer Scholarship from the Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, MD
2019 Creator Award from Oolite Arts and the Miami Foundation
2022 Creator Award from Oolite Arts and the Miami Foundation
RESIDENCIES
Oolite Arts 2020 Studio Resident
Miami, FL
Bakehouse Art Complex
Miami, FL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Room for the Living/Room for the Dead
Locust Projects, Miami, FL
2021
T. Eliott Mansa: On Memory and the Radical Black Imagination
Arts and Culture Center / Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
Ethnobotanical Negotiations of Cultural Space: On Samara’s Wing
Frank Art Gallery,Pembroke Pines, FL
2020
For Those Gathered in the Wind
LnS Gallery, Miami, FL
2017
WOTY 1.2, New Work by T. Eliott Mansa
Hunter East Harlem Gallery, East Harlem, NY
2013
BFI Presents T. Eliott Mansa
Bas Fisher Invitational, Miami, FL
2011
Looking Into the Fish Bowl
The Ladder Room Art Gallery, Miami, FL
2009
Mary Don’t You Weep/Martha Don’t You Moan
African American Museum of the Arts, Deland, FL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
And the record of the time PT3
Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL
At The Edge
Oolite Arts, Miami, FL
2019
Reconstructing Identity
Miami Museum of the African Diaspora, Miami, FL
Notices of a Mutable Terrain
Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami, FL
Radio Silence
The Project Space, Fat Village, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Reconstructing Identity
Historic Ward Rooming House, Miami, FL
Ever Upward
Collar Works, Troy, NY
2017
Art on Paper
Amadlozi Gallery, Miami, FL
2016
Alumni Series: Painting
New World Gallery, Miami, FL
2015
My Big Black America
Rush Arts Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Resurgence – Works from the Collection
Yeelen Gallery, Miami, FL
Shades of Black II
Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami, FL
2013
For Ed; Splendour in the Grass
Green Hall Gallery at Yale University, New Haven, CT
Water Rites
Audrey Love Gallery at Bakehouse, Miami, FL
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Evolve the Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Black History Month Exhibition
Amodlozi Gallery, African Heritage Cultural Center, Miami, FL
2012
Annual Kuumba Kwanzaa Art Exhibition
Amadlozi Gallery, African Heritage Cultural Center, Miami, FL
Puro
Coconut Grove Museum, Miami, FL
INK
Mandarin Oriental, Miami, FL
Smash and Grab
Locust Projects, Miami, FL
Midsummer’s Night Dream Part 2
Warehouse Alternative Space, Miami, FL
Young Blood: Homecoming
ArtSeen, Miami, FL
The 12th Annual Oscar Thomas Memorial People’s Art Exhibit
Amadlozi Gallery, African Heritage Cultural Center, Miami, FL
Art and Real Life: The Last Works of Master Artist Purvis Young
The Purvis Young Art Museum, Miami, FL
Legacy Magazine Black History Month Exhibit
Downtown Macy’s, Miami, FL
Artist Showcase from the African Diaspora
Majestical Lips, Miami, FL
Slavery to Self Determination
University of Miami CAS Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
2011
80 Inches of Art
The Sagamore Hotel, Miami Beach, FL
Art Fallout
Girls’ Club Foundation, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Smash and Grab
Locust Projects, Miami, FL
Young Blood: So Fresh
Flagler Art Space, Miami, FL
Secrets, Regrets, Joys & Truths
The Christopher Miro Gallery, Miami, FL
In Black and White
The Ladder Room Art Gallery, Miami, FL
Xerox as a Verb
Tomm El Saih Presents, Miami, FL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Continued)
2010
I’m from Miami *****!!!
Zona Verde, Miami, FL
Natural Selection
Hunter Gallery, Miami, FL
Crossing the Line
Buena Vista Building, Miami Design District, Miami, FL
Young Blood; New Wave
ArtSeen Gallery, Miami, FL
2009
Allow Me To Re-Introduce Myself
David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
2000
Rock(y) Bullwinkle
Studio 10o3, Miami, FL
1996
Dakar
Gallery 918, Baltimore, MD
ART FAIRS
2017
Prizm Art Fair
Miami, FL
2016
Prizm Art Fair
Miami, FL
2015
Prizm Art Fair
Miami, FL
2014
Prizm Art Fair
Miami, FL
2013
Prizm Art Fair
Miami, FL
2012
artAfrica
Miami, FL
The Historic Lyric Theater
Miami, FL
2011
artAfrica
Miami, FL
The Historic Lyric Theater
Miami, FL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019
“Miami Museum of Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora Hosts Pop-Up Exhibition this June” (with artist T.Elliot Mansa), featured in Hy-Lo News, June 8, 2019, Web
2013
Tshida, Anne “T Eliott Mansa Earns Street Cred for Miami’s Urban Artists”, WLRN, 2, May 2013, Web
Saati, Briana “Miami Artist T. Eliott Mansa’s Talent Propels him to Yale and Beyond”, The Miami New Times, 26, April 2013 web
2012
Mc Nair, D. Kevin, “Rising Artist to be Featured at Art Africa Exhibit: Native Son T. Eliott Mansa Uses Art to Showcase Scenes from the Hood” The Miami Times, November 28, 2012
Jenkins Fields, Dorothy, “Overtown Will Participate in Art Basel”, The Miami Herald, November 25, 2012
2011
Mc Nair, D. Kevin, “Art Africa Miami Debuts in Overtown”, The Miami Times, December 8, 2011
Suarez De Jesus, Carlos, “The GUILD, eight Miami artists, pushes art ahead at the Ladder Room, Miami New Times, April 21, 2011
Batet, Janet, “Guild: renacimiento del gremio en el siglo XXI?” (Guild Renaissance XXI century?), El Nuevo Herald, April 17, 2011
Pau-Llosa, Ricardo, “The Emergence of GUILD”, The Ladder Room Art Gallery Series Catalogue, 2011