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)