MADJEEN ISAAC
based in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
2021 New York University, New York, NY
MA Art + Edu & Community Practice
2019 Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Museum Education Practicum
2018 Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
BFA Fine Art, Minor Art History
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Come As You Are, This is Our Battle Too, Smack Mellon - Brooklyn, NY
2022 Beyond the Mountains, Sean Horton (Presents) - New York, NY
2019 The Unveiling, Akwaaba Mansion, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 (Forthcoming) TBD, Welancora Gallery - Brooklyn, NY
2025 KITH Artist Series (5 Year Anniversary), Brooklyn Museum - Brooklyn, NY
2025 Revoliysion Toupatou, Anna-Maria & Stephen Kellen Gallery - New York, NY
2024 The Brooklyn Artist Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum - Brooklyn, NY
2024 Don’t Ask, Just Manifest, SaveArtSpace x PARADICE PALASE - New York, NY
2024 BYENVENI, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute - New York, NY
2023 Memory Garden, Swivel Galley - Brooklyn, NY
2023 Everything, Earth and Sky, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
2023 KITH Artist Series, Traveling Exhibition (New York, NY; Paris, France)
2023 The Horses Stood Like Men, Jenkins Johnson Projects Gallery - Brooklyn, NY
2022 Let’s Grow!, Alpha Arts Alliance x Grown in Haiti
2022 Reset, NADA Curated, Online
2020 MYUZ Fete & Auction, New York Art Center, New York, NY
2019 Sa Se Lakay, GHOST Gallery - Brooklyn, NY
ART FAIRS
2022 UNTITLED Art Fair, Sean Horton (Presents) - Miami, FL
COMMISSIONS & COLLABORATIONS
2024 Audio-Technica, an art and music collaboration with Audio-Technica
2023 KITH Artist Series Capsule 2023, a collaboration with KITH
2020 Migration, community art mural commissioned by Haiti Cultural Exchange in
collaboration with NY Department of Transportation - Brooklyn, NY
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2025 (Forthcoming) The Church - Sag Harbor, NY
2025 (Forthcoming) Vermont Studio Center Fellowship - Johnson, VT
2023/24 Smack Mellon, Artist in Residence - DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
2022/23 BRIClab: Contemporary Art, Artist in Residence - DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
2022 The Laundromat Project, Create Change Fellow - Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Haiti Cultural Exchange, Lakou Nou: Artist in Residence - Brooklyn, NY
AWARDS & GRANTS
2024 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship (Painting) - New York Foundation for the Arts x
New York State Council on the Arts
2024 Dumbo Dozen Award (for artistic merit at Smack Mellon) - DUMBO Improvement District
2022 Women of Distinction Award, Arts & Entertainment - Awarded and Recognized by
Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn
2021 City Artist Corps Grant - New York Foundation for the Arts
PRESENTATIONS & ARTIST TALKS
2024 Inherited Medicine: Miatta Kawinzi and Madjeen Isaac in conversation with Erica N. Cardwell,
Smack Mellon - Artist Talk
2024 The Power of Place: Home, 'Foreign', and Belonging, African and Diasporic Religious Studies
Association x Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute - Panelist
2024 Madjeen Isaac and Emily Manwaring in Conversation on Creative Practice, Storytelling and
Embracing West-Indian Heritage, Rememory Directory x Soho Works - Panelist
2022 NADA Curated Conversation,New Art Dealers Alliance - Panelist
2022 Art Speak: Alumni Lecture, The Fashion Institute of Technology - Alumni/Visiting Artist
2022 Widline Cadet In Conversation | with Didier William, Madjeen Isaac, and Abigail Lucien,
Studio Museum in Harlem - Panelist
2019 The Unveiling (MYUZ Quarterly Art), Akwaaba Mansion - Artist Talk
PRESS & FEATURES
2023 KITH Honors Black History Month - KITH
8 Artists Who are Grappling with Climate Change and Imagining a Better World - Article by Samantha
Harrington, Yale Climate Connections
2022 The Artist Capturing Community Joy Through Magically Surreal Paintings - Article by Ashley Tyner, i-D
2022 Platform - Artwork Feature and Launch
2022 Madjeen Isaac Takes Us Beyond the Mountains - Essay by Sadaf Padder
2022 Reclaiming Joy, Reimagining Community: Madjeen Isaac, Article by Tyla Pink for Black Cherry Magazine
2022 Blackness Unbound : Afrofuturism and the Revolutionary Imagination - Mutale Nkonde, Smithsonian
National Air and Space Museum - Artwork Feature
2021 Flatbush Misdemeanors: Season 1, Showtime - Artwork Feature
2019 CONSTRUCTION: Brooklyn, Paradise and Building a World for a Hybrid Identity in the Work of Madjeen
Isaac - Essay by Glynn Pogue for MYÜZ Quarterly Art
COMMUNITY
Re-Imagine Your Hood, a community art making workshop, SunSpot Studios, Brooklyn, NY (2021) & The
Laundromat Project, Brooklyn, NY (2022)
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last updated March 2025