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MASUD A OLUFANI
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ATLANTA GA US
Updated: 2024-11-24 17:32:39
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RESUME

Masud Olufani is an Atlanta based actor, mixed media artist, writer and educator. He is a graduate of Morehouse College, and The Savannah College of Art and Design where he earned an M.F.A. in sculpture in 2013.  Masud has exhibited his work in group and solo shows nationally and internationally.  He is an associate professor and visiting artist at Morehouse College.  He is the 2021-22’ inaugural Visual Arts Fellow at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. The artist has completed residencies at The Vermont Studio Center; The Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences; and Creative Currents in Portobello, Panama. He is a 2017 Southern Arts Prize State Fellow; a recipient of a 2015 and 2018 Idea Capital Grant; a Southwest Airlines Art and Social Engagement grant; and a  recipient of 2015-16’ MOCA GA Working Artist Project Grant. 

As an actor, Masud had a recurring role on the BET series The Quad, and has appeared in numerous television shows including Greenleaf; Being Mary Jane, Devious Maids, Satisfaction, and Nashville.  He is a featured actor in the film biopic All Eyez on Me.  He was the co-host of the PBS news based investigative journalism show Retroreport, which aired nationally in 2019.  He will be the lead actor in the upcoming performance of No Cowards in our Band, about the life of Frederick Douglass, set to premiere at Hudson Valley Opera in Hudson, NY in the fall of 2024.  He is the co-host of Undaunted, a podcast series that centers the work of social change makers. 

 As a writer, Masud has published articles for Burnaway; Baha'i Teachings; and is a featured contributor for the Jacob Lawrence Struggle Series catalog, produced to coincide with the major exhibition of the Struggle Series paintings.  His untitled memoir is currently in development.  

In addition to being a committed artist Masud also enjoys exercising, traveling, dancing, visiting museums and deep embodied laughter.

 

EXHIBITIONS  

2024

  • Invisible Forces, Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA.

  • Dakar Biennale, Dakar, Senegal.

2023

  • Southern Voices, Global Visions, Lake City, SC.

  • The Alchemists, Johnson Lowe Gallery (Atlanta, GA.)

  • Lines: 45 Artists from the MOCA GA Permanent Collection (Atlanta, GA.)

2022

  • Dream Life of the Indigo Children, Emory University Visual Arts Gallery, Atlanta, GA.

2020

  • Translocation & Transfiguration, Solo Exhibition, Hammonds House Museum; Atlanta, GA.

2019

  • Masud Olufani: Memory and Meaning, The Albany Museum of Art; Albany, 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.

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.

  • Personal Politics; The Hudgens Center of Art; Atlanta, GA.


 

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS  

2023

  • 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.

  • Finalist: National Black Arts Festival Artist of the Year Award

  • Idea Capital Grant; Atlanta, GA.

  • Key West Literary Seminar; finalist Marianne Russo Award novel in progress

2017

  • 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


 

EDUCATION

 

2013  

  • M.F.A. in sculpture; Savannah College of Art and Design; Atlanta, GA  

1994  

  • B.A. Studio Art, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA