Torkwase Dyson (born 1973, Chicago, IL; lives in Beacon, NY) has distilled a vocabulary of poetic forms to address the spaciousness of freedom and question the type of climates born out of world building. In 2021, Dyson’s work was on view at Hall Art Foundation, Germany. In addition, her work was presented at the 13th Shanghai Biennale. Dyson has had solo exhibitions and installations at Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville; Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago; Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia; and Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Vermont; and Serpentine Pavilion, Serpentine Galleries, London. She has participated in group exhibitions at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; California African American Museum, Los Angeles; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; The Mississippi Museum of Art, Mississippi; Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; and Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York.
Torkwase Dyson will present work at Kamin Science Center.
