Aisha Tandiwe Bell
917.754.3291 aishatandiwebell@mac.com
www.superhueman.com

EDUCATION

2008 M.F.A Ceramics, Hunter College, New York, NY
2006 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan Maine.
1999 M.S. Art and Design Education (focus in Painting) Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
1998 B.F.A Painting and Art Education, (Minor in Cultural Studies) Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

SELECTED EXHIBITION

2009
From Africa to America, Iona Council of the Arts, New Rochelle, NY
2008
Reel Sisters Film Festival, The Kumble Theater, Brooklyn NY
Breaking Head, Hunter College Time Square Gallery, New York NY
The Black, Madonna The Rosa Parks Museum, Montgomery AL: traveling to The National Museum of Catholic Art, New York NY,Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY (2005-2008)
2007
The Postmillennial Black Madonna, MOCADA & Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2006
The Pulse of New Brookly,n Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, Brooklyn NY
2005
Project Diversity, Sputnik Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2004
Eve, Rush arts Foundation, New York, NY
Black history month, Brooklyn Borough Hall, Brooklyn NY
A Blues for Nina, BMCC, New York, NY.
2002
Eros Negras, Afro-American Cultural Center, Charlotte, NC.
Challenge Exhibition, Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Women’s Work, NYC Urban Experience Museum, New York, NY
Mostly Emerging, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2001
Looking through Stone Walls, Grand Army Plaza library, Brooklyn NY (solo)
2000
ArtWorks, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York, NY.
1999
Pushing through stone walls, Brooklyn Moon Café, Brooklyn, NY. (solo)
Sankofá, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
1998
Watchers, Brooklyn Moon Café, Brooklyn NY. (solo)
Poetry, Crash House, Soho, NY.
Watching, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. (solo)

AWARDS RESIDENCIES AND FELLOWSHIPS

2009 Artist In Residence, Abrons Art Center Henry Street Settlement, NY NY
2009 Artist in Residence, In Practice at Corrider Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2007 Hunter College Travel Grant (South Africa)
2006 Camille Hank Cosby Fellowship (Skowhegan)
2005 NYFA New York Foundation for the Arts fellow in Performance Art/ Multidisciplinary Work

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2007 Ogunnaike, Lola. “COLLECTIONS: A Museum Grows In Brooklyn.” New York Times, March 28,2007
2006 Curtis, Lisa J “A NEW HOME” The Brooklyn Paper, May 27, 2006
Miller, Leigh Anne “ NEW HOME FOR AFRICAN DIASPORA MUSEUM” Art in America, May 1, 2006
2004 Mccallister, Jared. “ARTIST PAY HOMAGE TO JAZZ DIVA NINA SIMONE.” New York Daily News, March 28t, 2004
2002 Dewees, Gayle. “ SKYLIGHT GALLERY OFFERS RANGE OF ART.” New York Daily News, September 5, 2002

LECTURES / ARTIST TALKS

2007 Skylight Gallery, BKLYN NY, Panel wi/ Sherman Fleming, Wanda Raimundi Ortiz & Keisha Scarville moderated by Wangechi Mutu .
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA, Panel Discussion ‘Racing Yourself’, with Senga Nengudi and Dread Scott
2006 MOCADA, Brooklyn NY, Artist Talk 2002 Corridor Gallery Brooklyn NY, Artist Talk and Performance
2001 Grand Army Plaza library, Brooklyn NY, Artist Talk

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Cooper Union Saturday Program August 2005- present General Coordinator
Hunter College September 2006-May 2007 Adjunct Ceramics Professor
Marmadou’s Spiritual Ancestry dance company February 2005-present African Dancer
NYC Department of Education September 1997-2005 k-12 Art teacher and project arts coordinator
Second 2 Last 1996-2006 Poet with spoken word group. Two released CD Say Word 1999, Babble-On 2004
Freelance Stylist 1993-1999 stylist & fashion designer for magazines ranging from Essence to YSB & for artist such as Allure & Faith.
Tati’s Life Designs August 1991 to August 1995. Co-owner of a fashion design and T-shirt company.

BIO

Aisha Tandiwe Bell, is a Black Caribbean American Woman from Brooklyn, NY. Her mother encouraged her to draw on the walls of their apartment in 81. She has been making art since. She is a multi-media, video, installation and performance artist. She was raised Bobo-Shanti Rasta and lived in the community in Jamaica in her early childhood. Her family moved to NYC in the early eighties. She moved to Brooklyn in high school. Her father is eighth generation traceable African American his parents are from Tennessee and North Carolina having moved to NYC during the great migration. Aisha has been a dancer since 94, She is a spoken word artist having released 2 cds “say word” in 1999 and “Babble-on” in 2004 with the performance group “Second2Last. She has shown as a visual artist every year since her BFA show in 1998 but it was not until she received a NYFA fellowship in 2005 (Performance Art/Multidisciplinary Work) that she decided to focus and leave her tenured position as a NYC public H.S art teacher to make her Art full time. Aisha lives in Bedstuy Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.