born 1977 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

EDUCATION

Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Residency, 2009 (Skowhegan, ME)

California College of the Arts, MFA, 2007 (San Francisco, CA)

Cooper Union School of Art, BFA, 2000 (New York, NY)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013, Forty-Seven Easy Poundcakes Like grandma Use To Make, Rotunda Gallery Project Room/ BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, NY

2012, The Dubious Sum of Vaguely Discernable Parts, The Bindery Projects, St. Paul, MN

2011, You Are Here. This Is Now., Musee Miniscule, Art in General, New York, NY

2010, Like It Is, John Jay College Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

2013, History, Hauntings and Palimpsests., Shiva Gallery/ John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY

2013, Feedback, Arts Incubator/ University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2013, Collinear Points, Carol Jazzar Gallery, Miami, FL

2012, What Do You Believe In?, NY Photo Festival 2012, Brooklyn, NY

2012, At Play 4, Bracknell Gallery, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, UK

2012, Our Daily Rite, Artspace, New Haven, CT

2012, Projet Gutenberg, Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Paris, France

2011, Airspace 2011, Abrons Art Center/ Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY

2011, It's You Today, Abrons Art Center/ Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY

2010, The Festival of Nearly Invisible Publishing, VerySmallKitchen & The Pigeon Wing Gallery, London, UK

2009, Emerge 10, Aljira: A Contemporary Art Center, Newark, NJ

2009, Live + Direct, Ping Pong Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007, MFA Thesis Exhibition, California College of the Art, San Francisco, CA

2007, Supermarket 2007, Koh-I-Noor, Stockholm, Sweden

2000, Senior Exhibition, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY

PUBLICATIONS

2013, Bortolot, Lana. "Culture Count: How Do We Love Cake? Let Us Count the Ways", The Wall Street Journal. April 18.

2013, Dempster, Heike. "Collinear Points" Review, Miami Art Zine. March 15.

2013, "Collinear Points | Carol Jazzar", Art Is About, artisabout.com, Feb 20.

2012, Driessen, Pete. "Art Hounds: 2012 visual art and music highlights", Minnesota Public Radio, December 31

2012, Regan, Sheila. "Nyeema Morgan makes art from pound cake recipes at the Bindery Projects", City Pages, August 23

2012, Scott, Gregory J. “A Cold Scientific Bludgeoning of a Warm Delicious Dessert.”, Minnesota Monthly, August 17

2012, Palmer, Caroline. “Nyeema Morgan: The Dubious Sum of Vaguely Discernable Parts”, City Pages, a*List, August 15-21

2012, Remes, Dr. Outi & Trench, Cally. At Play 4, exhibition catalogue, April

2012, Blanchard, Benoît. “Projet Gutenberg”, oeuvres-revue.net, February 29

2010, Curreri, Amanda & Scollon, Erik. Color&Color, Issue #1: Yellow & Purple, San Francisco, CA

2009, Genocchio, Benjamin. "A Decade of Emergence", New York Time, Art Review. August 28.

2009, Carlin, T.J. "Get Outta Town!", Time Out New York. July

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2010-2011 AIRspace Program, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY

2009, Camille Hanks-Cosby Scholarship, Skowhegan School of Painting& Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

2009, Wheeler Foundation Grant, New York, NY

2008, Emerge 10 Program, Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ

2007, Denis Leon Award, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2007, Richard Price Scholarship, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2006, Merit Scholarship, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

1996, Full Tuition Scholarship, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY

AFFILIATIONS

2011 - 2014 Board Member, The Society for the Arts, Religion & Contemporary Culture