CURRICULUM VITAE

JAMILLA OKUBO

b. 1993, Clinton, North Carolina

Lives and works in Washington, D.C.

EDUCATION

2016 BFA, Parsons the New School for Design

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 Illa-Communication, Busboys & Poets, Washington, DC

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017   Conversations in Patterns: Textiles, Figures, and Portraits,  Calabar Gallery, Harlem, NY

Amref Art Ball, Group Exhibition, Milk Gallery, Milk Studios, Manhattan, NY

2015 Common Ground, Group Exhibition, Super Wonder Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Home, curated by Handirubvi Indigo Wakatama, The Fridge DC, Washington, D.C.

After Afropolitan, curated by Aisha Bell Caldwell, Desiree Gordon, DAapo Reo, Yolanda

Sangweni, Weeksville Heritage Center, Harlem, NY

Girl Artist Takeover, Studio 301, Brooklyn, NY

2014   Girls Re­Framed, Dray Walk Gallery, Brick Lane, London

Sisters Art Salon: Shouts out to bell hooks, Social Justice Hub, The New School, New York, NY

LECTURES/PANELS

2019 'Repeat After M’panel, Society of Illustrators, New York, NY

2018 'Stepping Outside the Frame: Meet the New Generation of Image-Makers' panel, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

2017 'Conversations in Patterns: Textiles, Figures, and Portraits' Lecture, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA