Jefferson Pinder

Jefferson Pinder
Born December 1970
Washington, D.C., United States
Nationality American
Alma mater University of Maryland

Jefferson Pinder (b. Dec 1970) is a contemporary African-American artist whose primary interests are minimal performances of Afro-Futurism, physical endurance and blackness.

Career

Pinder has exhibited in galleries and museums including the High Museum; Birmingham Museum of Art;[1] the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC; the Studio Museum in Harlem; the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft; and the Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw, Poland, among others.

Pinder’s work is in numerous public collections including Yale University Art Gallery,[2] the Studio Museum of Harlem,[3] the High Museum of Art, and the David C. Driskell Collection among many others.

Jefferson Pinder has worked at University of Maryland as an assistant professor. Pinder is currently working as an associate professor at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago[4] and has lectured at the University of Massachusetts,[5] Amherst; College Arts Association; The Phillips Collection,[6] Washington, DC; Sudan University for Science & Technology, Khartoum, Sudan; the Black Film Center at Indiana University;[7] the Corcoran College of Art and Design; Maryland Institute College of Art; California College of the Arts; and American University, among others.

Education

Jefferson Pinder received an MFA from University of Maryland in painting and mixed media. He also earned a BA in Theatre at University of Maryland.

Gallery

References

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