T.J. Dedeaux-Norris
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.
Selected Works
Fishnet
cornrow
tameka 5
is for are and roses
is for explain exit
is for okay ok and kkk
is for over and Oscars
is for caterpillar convince
is for word and worry
is for sister star sunshine summer
is for Y'all, you
Embdization1
Toxic shock
portait of summer at 5 years old1
portrait of coya at 5 years old
portrait of camila at 5 years old
Quicksand1
Ain't I a woman1
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Born in 1979, lives and works in Iowa City, IA, USA
Education
- 2012 Masters of Fine Art, (MFA) Painting and Printmaking, Yale University, CT
- 2010 Bachelor of Art (BA), minor African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- 2007 Bachelor of Art (BA), minor African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA
Art fairs
- 2024 Expo Chicago, Jane Lambard Gallery, Chicago, IL
Solo Exhibition
- 2022 (Forthcoming) CSPS Hall, Cedar Rapids, IA
- 2022 (Forthcoming) University Galleries of Illinois State University, IL
- 2022 (Forthcoming) Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2022 (Forthcoming) Jane Lombard Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
- 2021 T.J. Dedeaux-Norris: Second Line, University Galleries of Illinois State University
- 2021 T.J. Dedeaux-Norris, Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Zona Maco Art Fair, Mexico City, CDMX
- 2020 T.J. Dedeaux-Norris Presents: The Estate of Tameka Jenean Norris, Figgie Museum, Davenport, IA
- 2020 to be seen and not heard, Washington Pavilion, Sioux City, South Dakota
- 2019 Monkey’s Uncle, Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Milan, Italy
- 2019 Ivy League Ratchet, Catich Gallery, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA
- 2018 Cut From the Same Cloth, Ronchini Gallery, London
- 2017 Bloodlines and Flood Lines, Savannah College School of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
- 2015 Meka Jean: Not Acquiescing, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
- 2015 Meka Jean: Sole Rights, David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX
- 2015 Meka Jean: Recovery, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
- 2015 Introducing Meka Jean (Too Good For You), Lombard Freid, Chelsea, NY
- 2014 Almost Acquaintances, Ronchini Gallery, London (catalog published)
- 2014 Family Values, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Address
10 rue des jardins, 57000 Metz, France
Hours
Wednesday-Saturday 11.00am-6.00pm
Contact us
+33 3 87 68 52 40