CHARMAINE BEE
charmaine.bee@gmail.comEDUCATION
2017 MFA California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2007 BFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
2006 School of International Training ( SIT)
Brazil: Social Justice, Development, Culture
Fortaleza, Ceara and Salvador, Bahia
2004 SIT African Spirituality throughout the African Diaspora. Kingston, Jamaica and Havana, Cuba
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2018 “Dream Sequence,” Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 “How To Build A House on a Hill”, California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA
2016 “1200/2015 Facing a Reality We are Told Not to See” California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA
2012 “The Stoop Gallery: Aesthetic of Afro Futurism - Homage to Octavia Butler”
Installed on Stoop in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 “Raw: Craft, Commodity, Capitalism,” Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2017 “Clothing Optional” Calarts Post-Graduate Exhibition Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 “Writing Herself” The Main Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2017 “Public Benefit Projects” Site Specific Installation at Payphone, Los Angeles, CA
2016 “This Show Needs a Title” California Institute of the Arts, MFA Painting Show Valencia, CA 2016 “The Group Show” California Institute of the Arts MFA 2 mid- residency group show Valencia, CA
2016 “Decolonize LA workshop dream interpretation/ spell un-casting to address systemic oppression” Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Company Member workshop WXPT project “dream interpretation /spell un-casting to address systemic oppression,” LACE, Los Angeles, CA
2015 “If We Came from Nowhere Her, Why Can’t We Go Somewhere There” Trenton Artworks, Trenton, NJ
2014 “If We Came from Nowhere Her, Why Can’t We Go Somewhere There,” Vivid Solutions Gallery, Washington DC
2013 “The Photographic Self,” Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
PUBLICATIONS
2019 “Rio Grande Gorge,” Entropy Magazine
2019 “Bee Family Dream Dictionary/ Dream Writings,” Ginger Zine
2018 “Mrs. Bailey,” YesFemmes Press
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2019 ACRE Residency, Steuben, Wisconsin
2019 Landing 3.0. Gibney Dance Center, New York, NY
2018 Artist in Residence, Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Felix Gonzales Torres Foundation Travel Grant Green Book Travel Guide research 2015 Puffin Foundation Grant, Neighborhood Watch
2015 18th Street Arts Center ,Santa Monica, CA
2014 Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL
2012 Puffin Foundation Grant, What Was Once Still Here Gentrification Mapping Project
2012 Brooklyn Arts Council Re- Grant Recipient The Stoop Gallery 2011 Brooklyn Arts Council Re - Grant Recipient The Stoop Gallery