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Masud Olufani is an Atlanta based multidisciplinary artist, curator and educator.  born in Los Angeles, California and raised in multiple cities including New York, Miami, New Orleans, Dallas, and Atlanta. He has taught at Morehouse College, Spelman College, Emory University, Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia State University, and the United States Federal Prison in Atlanta, Georgia. The artist has exhibited his work nationally and internationally. He was a featured artist in the 2024 Dakar Biennale in Senegal. The artist is a 2025 Yaddo Artist in Residence, a 2025-26’ studio fellow at NXTHVN and he will be an artist in residence at Black Rock Senegal in 2026.  He has also completed residencies at The Vermont Studio Center; The Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences; the Galloway School, Midtown Heart of the Arts, and Tallier Portobello Norte in Panama. He is a 2018 Southern Arts Prize State Fellow; and a recipient of a 2015-16’ MOCA GA Working Artist Project Grant. The artist enjoys traveling, exercise, reading and long meandering conversations.    

TEACHING & RELATED EXPERIENCE
2024
● Associate professor of Art and visiting artist; Morehouse College; Atlanta, GA.
● Art history professor at the Federal Prison in Atlanta, GA.
2017-22’
● Visiting Artist and lecturer–Emory University, 2021-22’
● Lecturer: Spelman College, Department of Fine Art, 2019.
● Instructor: Georgia State University, Welch School of Art and Design, 2018-19’.
● SCAD Alumni Mentor: Savannah College of Art and Design Atlanta campus, Dept. of
Sculpture, 2017. Facilitated student critiques, graduate studio visits, and lectured on my
studio practice. Susan Krause: Department Chair; ph. (404)457-9632; skrause@scad.edu
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
● A Sorcery of Sustenance, 701 Contemporary, Columbia, S.C.
2024
● A Sorcery of Sustenance, The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA. 2022
2020
● Dream Life of the Indigo Children, Emory University Visual Arts Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
● Translocation & Transfiguration, Solo Exhibition, Hammonds House Museum; Atlanta, GA.
● Down yonder, I heard Somebody Callin’ My Name, Rosa Parks Museum; Montgomery AL.
2019
● Masud Olufani: Memory and Meaning, The Albany Museum of Art; Albany, GA.
2017
● Lines of Influence: The Jacob Lawrence Symposium; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA.

2016
● Imprint: Past as Prologue; Solo Exhibition; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; summer
2016.
● Poetics of the Disembodied; Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia; summer, 2016.
2011
● MAO: Residue. Mason Muer Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2010
● The New Pan-African Ideal; Archetype Gallery. Atlanta, GA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
● Fragments and Facades, The Aiken Rhett House, Charleston, S.C.
2024
● Call & Response (curatorial lead), Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
● Dakar Biennale, Dakar, Senegal.
● Invisible Forces, Johnson Lowe Gallery
2023
● Southern Voices, Global Visions, Lake City, SC.
● The Alchemists, Johnson Lowe Gallery (Atlanta, GA.)
● Lines: 45 Artistsfrom the MOCA GA Permanent Collection (Atlanta, GA.)
2018
● Southern Sampler; Tower Fine Arts Gallery; College at Brockport; Brockport, N.Y.
● Trip Wire; Dodd Galleries; the University of Georgia Lamar Dodd School of Art.
2015
● Portalism; Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia; Atlanta, GA.
● Frequencies; Beep Beep Gallery; Atlanta, GA.
● Echoes; Lineage of the Spirit; Lilian Blades & Masud Olufani; The Art Place; Marietta, GA.
2014
● Project Lift Artist Salon, Atlanta, GA.
● Continuim; The Goat Farm Arts Center; Atlanta, GA.
2012
● Talent Loves Company, The Barbara Archer Gallery. Atlanta, GA.
● Tony Blair Foundation World Malaria Day Art Auction, Atlanta, GA.
● Hambidge Center for the Arts, Art Auction, The Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta, GA.
2011
● Action Mapping, Whitespec Gallery. Atlanta, GA
● MAO: Threading Through Memory. Archetype Gallery. Atlanta, GA
2010
● Open Studio; Savannah College of Art and Design. Atlanta, GA
● Facing Out & Looking In; Underground Atlanta. Atlanta, GA

2009
● Open Studio; Savannah College of Art and Design. Atlanta, GA
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
2025
● Artist in Residence, Black Rock Senegal, 2026.
● NXTHVN Studio Fellow, New Haven, CT., 2025-26’.
● Artist in Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
● Artist in Residence, The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and the Sciences, Rabun
Gap, GA.
2024
● Artist in residence, the Galloway School, Atlanta, GA.
● Artist in Residence, 701 Contemporary, Columbia, S.C.
2023
● Artist in residence, Midtown Alliance, Atlanta, GA.
● Voices of Our Nation Writing Workshop, Miami, FL.
● Heart of the Arts Residency Fellow (Atlanta, GA.)
2021
● Artadia Award, Atlanta.
2018
● Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Lecture; The Jepson Center; Savannah, GA. Fall 2018.
● Artist in Residence: 100W Corsicana; Corsicana, Texas.
● Idea Capital Grant; Atlanta, GA.
● Key West Literary Seminar; finalist Marianne Russo Award novel in progress
2017
● National Race Advisory Committee Board Member: The Bahai Teachings.Org
● Board member: The Creatives Project; Atlanta, GA.
● Southern Arts Prize Fellowship; Georgia.
2016
● Finalist: ATL Arts Luminary Award
● Artist in Residence; the Vermont Studio Center; Winter 2016.
2015
● SCAD Alumni Atelier Award recipient; Savannah, GA; winter 2015.
● MOCA GA Working Artist Project Grant; 2015-16.
● Southwest Airlines Art and Social Engagement grant in conjunction with Emory University
Center for Ethics; Atlanta, GA.
● Idea Capital Grant recipient; Atlanta, GA.
2009-14
● WonderRoot CSA Art Advisory Board; Atlanta, GA. 2015-present.
● The Walthall Fellowship; Atlanta, GA. 2014-2015.
● Creative Currents Artist in Residence; Portobello, Panama Summer 2013.

● The Creatives Project Artist in Residence; Atlanta, GA. 2013-15.
● Shortlisted for the MOCA GA Working Artist Grant, 2012.
● Artist in Residence, Hambidge Center for the Arts and Sciences, Rabun, Ga; 2012.
● Residency Fellowship, Fulton County Arts Council, Atlanta, GA. 2012

Published Articles
Jerry Cullum, “Review: ‘Call and Response’ at the Carlos — gorgeous, profound,” Arts Atl, posted
March 17th, 2025.
https://www.artsatl.org/review-call-and-response-at-the-carlos-gorgeous-profound/
Masud Olufani, “Artist Steve Locke’s Plans for a Memorial to the Slave Trade in Boston Have Been
Derailed After Opposition From Activists”, posted July 18th, 2019.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/steve-locke-memorial-derailed-1604050?fbclid=IwAR3OS72 Q5Pp7V9omxUel4_ucOq_bXs7nAi_BD-GEiJiRilzoEeOu-BKCaqI#.XTCP4W2QzGs.facebook