Education
MFA, Painting and Mixed Media, University of Maryland, 2003
BA, Theatre, University of Maryland, 1993
Asolo Theatre Conservatory Masters Program, Florida State University, 1994
art exhibitions
SOLO SHOWS
“Juke- A Musical Installation”, Electronic Media Gallery at Salisbury University, MD. January- March 2011
“EL Museo Del Ghetto”, G-Fine Art Gallery, Washington DC. September 2009
“Anthology”, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Inova Contemporary Art Center. March 2009
“Two Videos” (Car Wash Meditations/Invisible Man), Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI. November 2008
“Afro-Cosmonaut/Alien (White Noise)”, Patricia Sweetow Gallery. November 2008
“Legacy; Continuum”, University of North Florida Art Gallery, Jacksonville, FL. February 2008
”Shoeshine Variation”, G-Fine Art, Washington, DC. December 2007
”Juke”, G-Fine Art, Washington, DC. November 2006
“A Master Plan”, Core Architecture, Washington, DC. March 2006
”Mining the Media”, Marshall University, Huntington, WV. September 2005
“Middle Passage”, Xavier University, New Orleans, LA. February 2005
”Totem Voices”, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA. June 2004
GROUP SHOWS
“MOVES: International Festival of Movement on Screen”. Liverpool, UK. April 27th- May 1st 2011
“Poetic Aesthetic: An exploration of Creativity in Poetry and Visual Art”. The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD. January- March 2011
“(I Can) Feel the Pulse”. Group show with Emory Douglas. Showroom Mama Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands. September 2010
“Permanent Collection Installation of Modern and Contemporary Art since 1945; FOCUS: Washington, D.C.” The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. September 2010
“Milwaukee International One-Minute Video Fair”. Tate Modern, London, UK. 14-16 May 2010
“After 1968″. Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY. March 28-August 11 2010
“Searching for the Heart of Black Identity”. Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft. Shands and Steve Wilson Galleries. January 9- April 10 2010
“After 1968: Contemporary Artists And The Civil Rights Legacy”: A Skirball/CAAM Collaborative Presentation, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA. November 2009- March 2010
“Profess”. University of Maryland Department of Art Faculty Exhibition, College Park, MD. September- October 2009
“Sound: Record: Print”. University of Delaware, Wilmington, DE. September 2009
“Everything In-Between”. Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA. September 2009
“Dark Fair”. Milwaukee International (Inova), Cologne, Germany. April 2009
“Urban Idiom”. Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA. March 2009
“Picturing Politics”. Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA. October 2008
“After 1968″. The High Museum, Atlanta, GA. June 2008
“Recognize”. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. February 2008
“Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie”. Neuberger Museum of Art, and Westchester County, NY. January 2008
“11th Annual Project Artist Exhibition”. Artist Image Resource Center Pittsburgh, PA. December 2007
“Aqua Miami/Wynnwood”. Miami, Florida. December 2007
“For the Love of the Game”. Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut. June 2007
“Pulse Art Fair, New York City”. New York. February 2007
“Black Alphabet, Zacheta Gallery”. Warsaw, Poland. September 2006
“Lands of Freedom”. Generator Project Gallery, Dundee, Scotland. June 2006
“Frequency, Studio Museum of Harlem”. New York, NY. November 2006
“Race (Enter Personal Politics)”. Athica Contemporary Museum, Athens, GA. August 2005
“Afro-American Video Artist”. Cheekwood Museum, Chattanooga, TN.
“invisible (silence)”. Curated by Sanford Biggers, School 33, Baltimore, MD. December 2004
“Veni Vedi Video II”. Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, New York. April 2004
“Self-Portraits”. Sherry Washington Gallery, Detroit, Michigan. June 2004
“11th San Francisco Art Institute Film and Video Festival”. San Francisco, CA. February 2004
“Rising Voices”. District of Columbia Arts Center. November 2003
Publications
Essay “(I Can) Feel the Pulse”, Showroom Mama Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands. September 2010
Interviewer for “Linn Meyers/Here Today”, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland; Todd Allen Printing. 2009
The International Review of African American Art, Vol.22 No.4, “Gained in Translation”, by Andrea Douglas, Ph.D, curator of collections and exhibitions at the University of Virginia Art Museum. 2009
Impact, Research at University of Maryland, Vol.4 No.1, “Stop, Look and Listen”. Published by Mel Bernsein and Vice President for Research. 2009
“We Shall Independent Be”, Cover Illustration. Edited by Angel David Nieves and Leslie M. Alexander, University Press of Colorado. 2008
New England Theatre Journal, Vol. 19a, “Visualizing August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean” by Heather S. Nathans. 2008
Members Magazine, Flint Institute of Arts, “Fleckenstein Video Gallery”. 2008
African American Visual Arts from Slavery to the Present, “Epilogue: A Solitary Body Wrapped in Canvas” by Celeste-Marie Bernier. Published in Great Britain. 2007
ART+AUCTION, The International Magazine for Art Collectors, “Artist to Watch”. 2007
Urbanite for Baltimore’s Curious, “Immobility” by Bill Mesler. 2007
Black Alphabet, contexts of Contemporary African American Art, “P–Jefferson Pinder”, Edited by Malgorzata Jurkiewicz. 2006
International Journal of Africana Studies, Vol. 12 No.1. “Art of The African Diaspora”. 2006
Art in American, No.4. Report From New York: “Bling and Beyond”, by Sarah Valdez. 2006
“Frequency”, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York by Khary Polk. 2006
Collections
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Studio Museum of Harlem, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
US State Department
University of Maryland, Union Gallery, College Park, MD
David C. Driskell, College Park, MD
Henry Thaggart, Washington, D.C.
Jack Drake, Birmingham, AL
Larry Frazier, Washington, D.C.
Peggy Cafritz, Washington, D.C.
lectures
“Creative Voices DC”, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. May 25th, 2011
Visiting Artist Lecture, Co-sponsored by the Americas Series and the Black Film Center/Archive, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.”Representing Blackness in Contemporary Visual Art”. March 2010
Fairfax Public Schools, Performance- “Missionary Project”. December 2009
Corcoran College of Art + Design, “El Museo Del Ghetto”. October 2009
Featured Artist Lecture, G Fine Art Gallery, “Missionary Project”. July 2009
Milwaukee University, ”Anthology”. April 2009
Maryland Institute College of The Arts/ Rinehart School of Sculpture, Baltimore. “Contemporary Performance”. April 2009
California College of The Arts, San Francisco. “Recent Work”. November 2008
American University, “Masculinity/Me”. October 2008
Haystack School of Arts and Crafts, “Eight Ball”. August 2007
Fairfax Public Schools, Performance–”Juke”. March 2007
University of Maryland, Performance Art–”Tell Your Story”: August Wilson Conference. March 2007
Marshall University, “Mining the Media”. September 2005
Maryland College of Art and Design, “As an Artist”. September 2004
Wayne State University, “Performance Film Work”. February 2004
Mt. St. Mary’s College, “Recent Work”. February 2003
National Visionary Leadership Project, ”David C. Driskell Symposium”. January 2003
Tennessee State University, “Fragments”. February 2003
Middle Tennessee State University, ”Afro-American Art/Mining the Media”. February 2003
Radio Shows
Allison Keyes, “National Portrait Gallery Hosts Hip-Hop Exhibit”, NPR. February 2008
Andrew Hiller, “Graffiti at the Portrait Gallery”, WAMU Metro Connection NPR Affiliate. February 2008
reviews
“Greater Reston Arts Center exhibition has ‘bite’”, Fairfax Times by Janet Rems. July 15th, 2011
“BITE: Identity and Humor”, The Washington Post by Michael O’Sullivan. June 23rd, 2011
Gopnik, Blake. “Folk Video Artist Jefferson Pinder seeks to cast off ‘black art’ label”. The Washington Post. January 2010
Knight, Christopher. “Art review: ‘After 1968’ at California African American Museum”, Los Angeles Times. February 2010
Wells, Alannah. “G Fine Art presents the works of Jefferson Pinder and Jose Ruiz in “El Museo del Gheto””, Washington Life Magazine. November 2009
Dawson, Jessica. “Colossal Transformations at G”, The Washington Post. October 2009
Capps, Kriston. “Mounting Pressure for DC Galleries”, Art in America. July 2009
Dawson, Jessica. “14th Street Art Galleries Hit by Rising Rents”, The Washington Post. July 2009
Anderson, Kiki. “”Jefferson Pinder” at Institute of Visual Arts (Inova)Milwaukee”, Modern Painter. June 2009
Schumacher, Mary Louise. “Artwork Turns Volume Up On Race”, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. April 2009
Neal, Jill H. “DC Radar Art”, Modern Luxury. February 2008
O’Sullivan, Michael. “Hip-Hop Artist Take Center Stage”, The Washington Post. February 2008
Dawson, Jessica. “Taking a Shine to Sound-Picture Symbiosis”, The Washington Post. January 2008
Fleury Clare, Mary. “Not Black and White”, Washingtonian Magazine. July 2007
Tucker, Neel. “Jefferson Pinder at G-Fine Art”, Artillery. March 2007
Wilkinson, Michelle Joan. “Face-Off”, Code Z. December 2006
Capps, Kriston, “Juke”, Washington City Paper. December 2006
O’Sullivan, Michael, “Collectors, Holding Their Own—and More”, The Washington Post. December, 2006
Dawson, Jessica, “First Glance, Second Chance”, The Washington Post. December 2006
Beckman, Rachel, “Pinder’s “Ships have Sailed””, City Paper. May 2006
Valdez, Sarah. “Bling and Beyond”, Art in America. April 2006
Brockington, Horace. “Wavelength(2)”, New York Arts Magazine. January 2006
Smith, Roberta, “Frequency”, New York Times. December 2005
Psyllos, Steven. “Thelma Golden, Freq it”, New York Arts Magazine. December 2005
Dawson, Jessica. “Superstition”, The Washington Post. June 2005
Hess, Whitney, “Pillars of Learning”, Pittsburgh City Paper. June 2004
Dawson, Jessica. “Rising Voices”, The Washington Post. November 2003
Jenkins, Mark. ”Playing the Field”, Washington City Paper. September 2001
Fahey, Ann. “Blackout: Images from an Assimilated Negro”, Art Papers. September 1999
professional (TEACHING)
Fall 2011-Present School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Associate Professor
Summer 2007Haystack School of Arts and Crafts Deer Isle, ME
Instructor
Fall 2005-Summer 2011University of Maryland College Park, MD
Asst. Professor
Fall 2003-2005University of Maryland College Park, MD
Full-Time Lecturer
Spring 2003-2011Montgomery Community College Takoma Park, MD
Adjunct Professor— Beginning Drawing and Color Theory
Spring 2002 /Spring 2003University of Maryland College Park, MD
Adjunct Professor –Intermediate Drawing
Summer 2002/2001Wohlfarth Gallery Washington, DC
Contemporary Art Curator
1999-2003Carter Foundation, Hyattsville, MD
Art and Administrative Assistant to Dr. David Driskell
1999-2001Archbishop Carroll High School Washington, DC
Art Instructor
awards
Headlands Center for The Arts, Artist in Residence Program, Sausalito, CA. Summer 2010
Creative Communities Initiative Grant (Creative Community Foundation), Washington, DC 2008
Center For Teaching Excellence Grant, University of Maryland, Summer 2005
Vermont Studio Center Full Award Fellowship, Winter 2005
University of Maryland David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora Fellowship Recipient, 2002-2003
Sadat Peace Art Competition 2nd Place 11/2002
Diversity Fellowship, University of Maryland 2001-2003
Artist Trust GAP Grant Award Seattle, WA, 1997