Mel Edwards

**Melvin "Mel" Edwards** (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la Silimiin goli May dabaa anahi dali yuuni 1937) nyɛla Americanima nuchee ni baŋda ni karimba. O nuchee ni baŋsim nyɛla din chani ni siyaasa tali ka tooi jɛndiri African-American taarihi. O nyɛla ŋun be Upstate New York mini Plainfield, New Jersey.

## Exhibitions
Edwards nyɛla ŋun daa be "large number of solo shows" din daa niŋ United States mini tiŋduya. O tumanima shɛŋa nyɛ *Melvin Edwards* (1965), Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California; *Melvin Edwards: Sculptor* (1978), Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; *The Sculpture of Melvin Edwards*, SculptureCenter, New York; *Mel Edwards: Lynch Fragment Series* (1985), Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey n-ti pahi *Melvin Edwards* (2022), Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York.

O tumanima ŋɔ yuuni pihita chuɣu nyɛla din daa niŋ yuuni 1993 ka din daa niŋ luɣ'shɛli nyɛ Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, 50-year retrospective titled *Melvin Edwards: Five Decades* nyɛla din daa niŋ yuuni 2015 ka di ni daa niŋ luɣ'shɛli nyɛ Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas. 

## Awards and honors

* 1975 – awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
* 1984 – grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
* 1988 – Fulbright Fellowship to Zimbabwe from 1988–1989.
* 1992 – elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate, and became a full Academician in 1994.
*2000 – Lab Grant Artist Residency Program, Dieu Donné, Brooklyn, New York
* He received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) in 2014.
* He is the subject of the 2016 documentary film by Lydie Diakhaté, entitled *Some Bright Morning: The Art of Melvin Edwards*.

## Notable works in public collections

**August the Squared Fire* (1965), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
**The Lifted X* (1965), Museum of Modern Art, New York
**The Fourth Circle* (1966), Los Angeles County Museum of Art
**Curtain (for William and Peter)* (1969), Tate, London
**Pyramid Up and Pyramid Down* (1969, refabricated 2017), Whitney Museum, New York
**Untitled (Wall Hanging)* (1982), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
**Working Thought* (1985), from the series *Lynch Fragments*, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
**Justice for Tropic-Ana (dedicated to Ana Mendieta)* (1986), from the series *Lynch Fragments*, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
**Cup of?* (1988), from the series *Lynch Fragments*, Museum of Modern Art, New York
**Ready Now Now* (1988), from the series *Lynch Fragments*, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
**Takawira - J* (1989), from the series *Lynch Fragments*, Brooklyn Museum, New York
**Good Word from Cayenne* (1990), from the series *Lynch Fragments*, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
**Tomorrow's Wind* (1990), Thomas Jefferson Park, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
**Off and Gone* (1992), from the series *Lynch Fragments*, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
**Tambo* (1993), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
**Siempre Gilberto de la Nuez* (1994), from the series *Lynch Fragments*, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
**Deni Malick* (1999), from the series *Lynch Fragments*, Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia
**Fragments & Shadows* (2001), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Museum of Modern Art, New York
**Soba* (2002), from the series *Lynch Fragments*, Detroit Institute of Arts
**Scales of Injustice* (2017/year of exhibition), Baltimore Museum of Art

## Lihimi m-pahi

* List of African-American visual artists

## Kundivihira

## External links
*Melvin Edwards website.
* Carol Kino, "Rediscovering Someone Recognized", *The New York Times*, October 17, 2012.
* Michael Brenson, "Melvin Edwards", *BOMB magazine* – Artists in Conversation, November 24, 2014.
* Catherine Craft, "Conversations with Melvin Edwards", Nasher Sculpture Center.
* "NO. 170: Melvin Edwards, Gohar Dashti", The Modern Art Notes Podcast.