Derek Fordjour

Derek Fordjour (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la yuuni 1974) nyɛla Americanima nuchee ni baŋda mini shikuru baŋda zaŋ n-ti Ghanaian heritage ka o tuma nyɛ din jɛndi collage, video/film, sculpture n-ti pahi pɛntibu. Fordjour nyɛla ŋun be New York City.

 Piligu biɛhigu mini shikuru baŋsim 
Derek Fordjour nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so yuuni 1974 tiŋ yuli booni Memphis, Tennessee. O lammba nyɛla Ghananima.

Fordjour nyɛla ŋun daa nya MFA shikuru yuli booni Hunter College, ka daa deegi Ed. M in Arts Education shikuru yuli booni Harvard University. 

 Tuma 
O nyɛla bɛ daa piigi so ʒiba zaŋ n-ti Alex Katz Cooper Union din be spring 2020, tum yuuni 2018 o daa nyɛla "core critic" n-ti Yale University School of Art.

 Awards, honors, and collections 
O nyɛla ŋun daa deegi yuuni 2016 Sugarhill Museum Artist-in-Residence,  2017 Sharpe Walentas Studio Program din be New York City, and the 2018 Deutsche Bank NYFA Fellowship Award.

O tuma nyɛla din be "public and private collections" di shɛŋa nyɛ Studio Museum in Harlem, Brooklyn Museum, Pérez Art Museum Miami Dallas Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, n-ti pahi Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Select exhibitions
 2020, 'SELF MUST DIE', Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
 2020, 'SHELTER', Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
 2019: 'The House Always Wins', Josh Lilley, London, UK
 2019: 'JRRNNYS', Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
 2018 'Half Mast', the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
 2018: 'Derek Fordjour: Camelot Study', BAM, Brooklyn, NY
 2018 'Ritual', Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, FL
 2017 'PARADE', Sugar Hill Museum, New York, NY
 2016: 'Agency and Regulation', LUCE Gallery, Turin, Italy
 2016: 'Eight Paintings', Papillion Art, Los Angeles, CA
 2015 'UPPER ROOM', Robert Blumenthal Gallery, New York, NY

Selected press and reviews
 Hyperallergic, "Derek Fordjour Conjures a Heavenly World", Seph Rodney, December 16, 2020
 T: The New York Times Style Magazine, "Marching to..." T Magazine, November 27, 2020
 New York Times, "Derek Fordjour, From Anguish...", Siddhartha Mitter, November 19, 2020
 ARTNews, "Best Practices: Derek Fordjour...", Andy Battaglia, November 10, 2020
 Financial Times, "Derek Fordjour on painting...", Jackie Wullschläger, October 20, 2020
 Elephant Magazine, "Derek Fordjour Uses Sport...", Emily Steer, October 16, 2020
 Artsy, "Derek Fordjour Honors Disenfranchised...", Jacqui Germain, June 3, 2020
 Financial Times, "Painting crowds, or the lack...", Jackie Wullschläger, May 8, 2020
 Hyperallergic, "Derek Fordjour Considers...", Jack Radley, April 6, 2020
 Artforum, "Critics Pick: Derek Fordjour: Shelter", Jennifer Piejko, January 2020
 St. Louis Post Dispatch, "Beyond white walls...", Jane Henderson, January 17, 2020
 Financial Times, "Four exhibitions bring African...", Jackie Wullschlager, 2019
 Artnews, "Petzel Gallery Now Represents Derek...", Annie Armstrong, 2019
 Galerie, "The rising-star artist uses imagery of carnivals...", Lucy Rees, 2019
 Cultured, "Artist Derek Fordjour Revels in The Game...", Jennifer Piejko, 2019
 Los Angeles Times, "Datebook: Paintings of...", Carolina A. Miranda, 2019
 The Wall Street Journal, "'I Don't Want to Be a Blip...", Kelly Crow, 2019
 Artnet News, "8 Art Advisors Tell Us Which Artists...", Henri Neuendorf, 2018
 Culture Type, "Historic Bequest: Late Arts...", Victoria L. Valentine, Oct, 10 2018
 Artnet News, "Price Check! Here's What Sold...", artnet News, October 9, 2018
 Hyperallergic, "Studio Museum in Harlem...", Jasmine Weber, October 8, 2018
 Artnews, "Even as Brexit Looms, Galleries...", Judd Tully, October 3, 2018
 Gotham, "6 Innovators Shaping...", The Editors, October 1, 2018
 Juvenile Justice, "Arts-centered New York...", Shay Urbani, May 25, 2018
 Hyperallergic, "Wandering the Artists...", Seph Rodney, May 5, 2018
 Surface, "Best of Zona Maco 2018", Brooke Porter Katz, February 11, 2018
 Artsy, "What Sold at Zona Maco", Anna Louie Sussman, February 11, 2018
 Hyperallergic, "The Political Truths...", Seph Rodney, February 9, 2018
 The Art Newspaper, "Art Los...", Maxwell Williams, January 31, 2018
 Artnet News, "How Artist Derek Fordjour...", Sarah Cascone, December 18, 2017
 Hyperallergic, "A Dreamy Carnival...", Seph Rodney, November 22, 2017
 The Undefeated, "The Portrait of an Artist...", Kelley D. Evans, October 6, 2017
 Galerie Magazine, "Derek Fordjour's Immersive...", Jacqueline Terrebonne, August 2, 2017
 Vice, "Sports Are a Metaphor for Inequality...", Francesca Capossela, June 21, 2017
 Los Angeles Times, "And There is an End...", David Pagel, March 21, 2016
 Los Angeles Times, "Derek Fordjour: Eight Paintings.." by Carolina Miranda, February 4, 2016
 Observer, "Nine Overachieving New Yorkers You Must Date", February 3, 2016
 New York Times, "From Derek Fordjour..." by Holland Cotter, November 19, 2015
 Los Angeles Times, "And There is an End.." by David Pagel, March 21, 2015
 The Brooklyn Rail, Review of 'The Big Game'.. by Johnathan Goodman, October 7, 2014
 Ebony, "Artist Derek Fordjour has a Lesson for...,", by Souleo, September 29, 2014
 Huffington Post, "The Sports World Could Learn..." by Souleo, 2014
 MSNBC's TheGrio.com, "40 Amazing Black Artists to Watch in 2014", January 3, 2014

Kundivihira

External links
 Pen's Eye: Interview With Artist Derek Fordjour (2014)

Pubu:Lahabaya zaa
Category:Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni
Category:Morehouse College alumni
Category:Living people
Category:Artists from Memphis, Tennessee
Category:African-American artists
Category:American artists
Category:American interdisciplinary artists
Category:Hunter College alumni
Category:1974 births
Category:21st-century African-American artists
Category:20th-century African-American artists