MARVIN TOURÉ
ABOUT | WORKS | EXHIBITIONS
ABOUT
Marvin Touré is an Ivorian-American artist who uses objects of innocence (artifacts and stories from his childhood Atlanta, Georgia) as a vehicle to interrogate themes of race and mental health. In 2014 he received a BA. in new media arts with a minor in architecture from southern polytechnic state university (now Kennesaw State university) in marietta, Georgia. In 2016 he received an MFA. in fine arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and completed a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Touré has also completed residencies at the Franconia sculpture park as an FSP/Jerome foundation fellow (2018) in Shafer, Minnesota and SVA MFA fine arts, life on an island on Governors Island, New York (2019). Touré’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the AC Institute in New York, NY (2018), and Haul Gallery in Brooklyn, New York (2019). his work has also been included in group exhibitions at Jan Brandt Gallery (2015) in Bloomington, Illinois, mini bar as part of an art and curatorial project at the Material Art Fair in Mexico City, Mexico (2016), the Prizm Art Fair (2016) in Miami, Florida, Project for Empty Space at Gateway Project Spaces in Newark, New Jersey (2016), Smack Mellon (2017) in Brooklyn, New York, the University of Connecticut-Stamford (2018) in Stamford, Connecticut. in 2019 his work was also exhibited at Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania, and the August Wilson center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
WORKS
does the drip match the soul?
Thermoplastic Adhesive, Acrylic, acrylic paint, plastic
12 x 5 x 2 in
Black Bile Toys
Inkjet on paper
9 x 12 x 2 in
is it toyetic
Thermoplastic adhesive, crochet thread on black board
18 x 2 x 20 in
The BBC
Inkjet on paper
9 x 12 x 2 in
Super Sad
Thermoplastic adhesive, Acrylic, acrylic paint, plastic
12 x 5 x 2 in
EXHIBITIONS
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