Artist Registry
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RESUME
Zakariya Abdul-Qadir is a New York based artist born in 1989 in Brooklyn, New York. He uses his practice as a chronicling of the day to day. Abdul-Qadir began his career after graduating Brooklyn College, working within the service industry affording him time to pursue his practice. He later began to articulate his a visual vocabulary looking at the spaces between colors and their meeting point. The dialogue of the colors inform each layer of paint one after the next like an improvisational jazz lick, creating an impression of spontaneity while reserving the feel of the quotidian.
Education
2025 MFA Painting and Drawing, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY(Ongoing)
2024 Teaching Certificate, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2020 NYC Crit Club, Visiting Critic Program
2011 BA, City University of New York, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
Honors
2024 Pratt Institute Graduate Student Engagement Fund, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Pratt Institute Entrance Award, Brooklyn NY
2023 Haul Gallery Artist-In-Residence, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Exhibitions
2024 State of the Nation, Old Stone House, Group Exhibition, Brooklyn, New York (Forthcoming)
No Scope, Pratt Institute, Group Exhibition, Brooklyn New York (Forthcoming)
SoArt, Schaffler Gallery Pratt Institute, Group Exhibition, Brooklyn, New York (Forthcoming)
Summer Creek Show, Newtown Creek, Group Exhibition, Brooklyn, New York
2023 Between These Walls, Haul Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
2022 A Tale of Two Cities, Window on Hudson, Solo Exhibition, Hudson, NY
2021 Good Bones, I Like Your Work, Online Exhibition
Good Bones, I Like Your Work, Fall Catalogue
One In A Year, The Painting Center, Online Exhibition
Northern Lights, White Bear Center for the Arts, Online Exhibition