RESUME

Khari Johnson-Ricks

Madebykhari@gmail.com 

Education: BFA Animation// Illustration- Montclair State University 2016 MFA Painting Hunter College 2019

Skills: Paper making, Suminagashi, Photo Lithography, Screen Printing, Cyanotype, Risography, Drawing, Painting, Adobe Creative Suite, Procreate/ Procreate Dream Animation Software, Zine Making, Book Binding,Airbrush and Spray Painting.:

Employment History:

Public Programs Fellow Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College 2018 As public programs fellow I was tasked with researching and contextualizing Axis Mundo, a show about Queer Latinx artists working during the AIDS epidemic and their involvement with Aids activism through printed matter and performance. The Team of fellows and I all worked together to pull contemporary artists working today into contact with this history by organizing a zine fair at hunter centered on Latinx Indie publishing projects, Performances by folks currently thinking through queer issues, as well as talks with principle artist Joey Terrill.

Freelance Mural Assistant 2018 As a mural assistant to artists like Jess x Snow, Zehpalito, and Layqa Nunar Yawar I operated large scale boom and scissor lifts, mixed and indexed mixed colors for consistency and color matching and applied spray paint to large scale murals.

Studio/Design Assistant Nina Chanel Abney Studio 2016-2021 As a Design assistant, I helped Fine artist Nina Chanel Abney develop a vectorized suite of symbols and iconic images based on her fine artwork for commercial use and large scale murals. These Digital assets were used in collaboration with major brands like Jordan Brand, and Peanuts as well as smaller projects like 8-ball community.

Zines and Artist Books Machismo Zine By: Leo Banuelos PRECOG Vol. 4 Face to Face Blind Date- Endless editions

Special Collections Thomas J Watson Library at Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC MOMA Library Whitney Museum SFMOMA Library Emily Carr University University College London 8Ball Community, Frye Art Museum, Penn state University Library,

Talks, Fellowships, and Residencies Axis Mundo: Public Programming Fellowship- Hunter College Galleries 2018

Zine Making Round table at New York Artbook Fair- MOMAPs1 2019

Visiting artist Guest lecture- RISD, 2020

Jersey Club Interview series- Paul Roberson Galleries, Rutgers University, 2020

Summer Residency- Public Gallery- London, U.K 2021

Artist Interview/Guest Lecture - Aaron Douglas: Sermons - SCAD museum of art- 2022

For Freedoms Fellowship- For Freedoms- New York, New York, 2023 Guest Lecture- Maryland College of art, 2024

Group Exhibitions and Murals 2016-2018 Gateways to Newark Mural Initiative- City of Newark- Newark Nj

Ras Baraka Model Neighborhood Mural Initiative- City of Newark- Newark Nj

Midnight Sale- The Sleep Center- NYC Endless Biennial 2017- Elizabeth Foundation- NYC

Untitled Passage - Housing- Brooklyn Ojala- Carlsbad Museum- Carlsbad New Mexico

OverFlow- Special Special Gallery- NYC

2019

Punch LA – Jeffrey Deitch- Los Angeles

Hunter College MFA Show – New York , Ny

2020

Yb2P – Catinca Tabacaru Gallery -New York

Majuere Force- Night Gallery-Los Angeles

NADA -Night Gallery-Los Angeles

2021

Unity at the Initiative - Asian Art Initiatives- Philadelphia, PA

The Interior- Venus Over Manhattan- New York, NY

Frühschoppen with Hans-Jörg Mayers- Gallerie Nagel Draxler- Munich, Germany

Shattered Glass Miami- Jeffrey Deitch- Art Basel Miami

2022

Scrubs Night Gallery- Los Angeles, LA A Question Of vibrancy/earthly sight

Eduardo Secci Contemporary- Florence Italy

Maverick Magician Muse Deli Gallery- New York, New York

Aaron Douglas: Sermons SCAD Museum of art- Savannah, Georgia

2023

And we learned to keep the soil wet, CARA, New York, New, York Hot Glue, NADA Project space Curated by Night Gallery, New York, New York

Solo Exhibitions

2021 Feel Me? - Night Gallery- Los Angeles

2022 Mobility Training Philadelphia International Airport- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania