Sedrick Chisom

Untitled, 2024

Charcoal on paper

19 x 25 inches (48.26 x 63.5 cm)

Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Brown

Selected by The Drawing Center

Sedrick Chisom (b. 1989, Philadelphia) lives and works in London, UK. He received a full scholarship to study at Cooper Union, where he completed his BFA in 2016 and was awarded the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation Award for Exceptional Ability. In 2018, he received his MFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.

Solo and two-person exhibitions include The Revenants of Our Founding Furies, Matthew Brown, New York (2026); The Villain of History for One Night Alone, Pilar Corrias, London (2024); …And 108 Prayers of Evil, CLEARING, New York (2024); Angels to Some, Demons to Others (with Katherine Bradford), Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2022); Twenty Thousand Years of Fire and Snow, Pilar Corrias, London (2021); Westward Shrinking Hours, Condo, in collaboration with Pilar Corrias, London (2020); When the Night Air Stirs, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2019); The Final Excursion Into the Savage South, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (2019); The Ghost of White Presidents Yet To Come, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA (2019); and You Just Gotta Look For It, Cooper Union, New York (2018).

In 2022, Chisom was included in In the Black Fantastic at the Hayward Gallery (2022), curated by Ekow Eshun.

Recent group exhibitions include PROGRAM, Matthew Brown, New York (2024); Manic Pixie Nightmare Drawings, Adler Beatty, New York (2024); the 14th floor, Gratin, New York (2024); Wave Pattern Part II, Max Werner, New Yor, (2023); Works on Paper: 100 Years, Amanita, New York (2023); UGLY PAINTING, curated by Dean Kissick and Eleanor Cayre, Nahmad Contemporary, New York (2023); Papertrail, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2023); In the Black Fantastic, Hayward Gallery, London (2022); Reference Material, curated by Brook Hsu, Adler Beatty, New York (2022); Supermoon, CLEARING, Beverly Hills, CA (2022); One hundred eighty-six billion steps to the sun, CLEARING, New York (2022); Dissolving Realms, curated by Kathy Hessel, Kasmin, New York (2022); Possédé·e·s, Montpellier Contemporain, France (2021); Great Force, curated by Amber Esseiva, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Richmond, VA (2020); Cult of the Crimson Queen, Ceysson & Bénétière, New York (2019); Beside Myself, JTT Gallery, New York (2018); GDPR, Signal Gallery, New York (2018); and Leap Century, Abrons Art Center, New York (2018).

Chisom was awarded the 2018–2019 VCU Fountainhead Fellowship in Painting and Drawing at the Macedonia Institute and was a 2019 resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

His work is included in the collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; The Hessel Collection, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, New York; Longlati, Shanghai, China; X Museum, Beijing, China; Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China; Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel; KADIST, Paris, France; Elie Khouri Art Foundation, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; George Economou Collection, Marousi, Greece.