Born in 1979, lives and works in Iowa city, IA, USA.
T.J. Dedeaux-Norris is an American mixed-media artist who utilizes painting, fiber, performance, video, and music to explore the interformativity of collective and individual identities, with a particular focus on the somatic impacts of racial, gender, and class socialization over time. Both the form and content of their work alludes to a philosophical inquiry into the distinction between Self and Other, with the physical body as a social microcosm of distinct yet discursive dynamics to observe and question. Everything is fractile. In this embodied practice, healing becomes its own media: Dedeaux-Norris’ ongoing experiments into various physical, mental, and spiritual modalities texture her work, teasing out new questions, pointing them toward new answers within themselves, within their family history. Dedeaux-Norris reconciles the seemingly oppositional past and present – rapper and contemporary artist, sexworker and university professor, runaway and mother’s caretaker – highlighting the necessarily generative nature of difference.
2012 Masters of Fine Art, (MFA) Painting and Printmaking, Yale University, CT, USA
2010 Bachelor of Art (BA), minor African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2007 Bachelor of Art (BA), minor African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2023 Laisser le bon temps rouler, Galerie PJ, Metz, France
2022 CSPS Hall, Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
2022 University Galleries of Illinois State University, IL, USA
2022 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2022 Jane Lombard Gallery, Chelsea, NYC, USA
2021 T.J. Dedeaux-Norris: Second Line, University Galleries of Illinois State University, USA
2020 T.J. Dedeaux-Norris Presents: The Estate of Tameka Jenean Norris, Figgie Museum, Davenport, IA, USA
2020 to be seen and not heard, Washington Pavilion, Sioux City, South Dakota, USA
2019 Monkey’s Uncle, Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Milan, Italy
2019 Ivy League Ratchet, Catich Gallery, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA, USA
2018 Cut From the Same Cloth, Ronchini Gallery, London
2017 Bloodlines and Flood Lines, Savannah College School of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA, USA
2015 Meka Jean: Not Acquiescing, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, USA
2015 Meka Jean: Sole Rights, David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2015 Meka Jean: Recovery, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
2015 Introducing Meka Jean (Too Good For You), Lombard Freid, Chelsea, NY, USA
2014 Almost Acquaintances, Ronchini Gallery, London (catalog published)
2014 Family Values, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, USA
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