Endia Beal
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| Born | 1985 |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🏫 Education | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Yale University |
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| Known for | Photography |
| 🌐 Website | endiabeal |
Search Endia Beal on Amazon.Endia Beal (born February 8, 1985) is a contemporary African-American visual artist, curator, and educator best known for her photographic narratives and video testimonies that examine the personal stories of women of color working within the corporate space.[1][2]
Early life and education
Endia Beal was born on February 8, 1985 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is the daughter of Frank Beal and Sheila Beal. Beal took her first photo class at University of North Carolina Greensboro.[3] In 2008 Beal graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a double bachelor’s degree in Art History and Studio Art. As an undergraduate student, she attended the Studio Art Center International in Florence, Italy focusing on classic Art History of High Renaissance period.
After her Bachelor's degree, Beal was selected to participate in ArtTable - a program aimed at empowering women in the visual arts.[4] At ArtTable she represented Washington, D.C., where she helped curate the Andy Warhol Exhibit at the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery of George Washington University. There she began combining the artistic practices with the activist agenda, creating marketing campaigns that attempted to redefine the way minority communities interact with art.[5][6]
In 2013, Beal got a Master's degree from Yale School of Art in Fine Arts and Photography. During this time she created her first body of work exploring the struggles of women of color in the professional field, in the corporate space in particular.[1]
Since 2014 Beal has worked as the Director of Diggs Gallery at Winston-Salem State University and is an Associate Professor of Art there.[7]
Career
As her role models and sources of inspiration, Beal was interested in artists who incorporate personal stories in order to draw a bigger picture. Another important theme in Beal's works is questioning conformity and gender roles. Beal lists Carrie Mae Weems and Lorna Simpson as her personal favorites.[8]
In her works, Beal uses visual narratives, expressed both in photo and video projects, that focus on examining the personal experiences of marginalized communities and individuals, focusing mostly on the background of African American women. Beal connects personal stories to the bigger background of the social group that she documents through her photography.[9]
After participating in the artist-in-residence program at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, she developed her previous work in the project "Can I Touch It?"[10] For this project, she made traditional portraits of white women that one would find in a corporate context but they wore traditional hairstyles of black women. Using role reversal, she wanted to represent the experience that she has faced herself as a black woman in the corporate field.[1]
Another one of Beal's projects, "Am I What You Are Looking For?", focusing on portraying young black educated women entering the workforce and the personal stories behind them, was featured in VICE's 2016 Photo issue and won a grant from the Magnum Foundation.[11][12]
Beal has worked in a curatorial capacity at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and the Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology. She won a 2019 fellowship from Center for Curatorial Leadership.[13]
Exhibitions
Her artwork has been exhibited in several institutions such as the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit, Michigan, the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Art + Culture based in Charlotte, NC, Aperture Foundation of New York, and the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at State University of New York at New Paltz, Alice Austin House Museum, Photographic Center Northwest, Cathrine Edelman Gallery and Nasher Museum of Art.[14][15][16][17]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Butet-Roch, Laurence (2017-04-19). "Endia Beal's Am I What You're Looking For?". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
- ↑ "Challenging African-American stereotypes". BBC News. 2018-09-15. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
- ↑ Hawbaker, K. T. "Exhibition stares down portrayals of blackness in art history, corporate environments". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
- ↑ "ArtTable". www.arttable.org. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
- ↑ The Candid Frame, TCF Ep. 447 - Endia Beale, retrieved 2018-12-17
- ↑ bcnews (2017-05-08). "Endia Beal Slated to Speak at Barton College's 115th Commencement". Barton College. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
- ↑ "Diggs Gallery director named Barton College graduation speaker - Winston-Salem State University". www.wssu.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
- ↑ "Snapshot: Endia Beal - Geotraveler's Niche - Lola Akinmade Åkerström". Geotraveler's Niche - Lola Akinmade Åkerström. 2015-03-09. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
- ↑ "Endia Beal's Photography At the Half King". www.thehalfking.com. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
- ↑ "Endia Beal | PHOTOGRAPHY". endiabeal.com. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
- ↑ "Am I What You're Looking For?". Vice. 2016-08-19. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
- ↑ "Reimagining Her Corporate Image :: IRAAA". iraaa.museum.hamptonu.edu. Archived from the original on 2021-05-16. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
- ↑ "New York's Center for Curatorial Leadership Announces 2019 Fellows". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
- ↑ Richardson, Whitney (2015-09-24). "Young, Black, Female and Envisioning Corporate Life". Lens Blog. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
- ↑ "Exhibition CALL AND RESPONSE - artist, news & exhibitions - photography-now.com". photography-now.com (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2018-11-28.
- ↑ "Exhibition ALL POWER - artist, news & exhibitions - photography-now.com". photography-now.com (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2018-11-28.
- ↑ "Exhibition How do you see me? - artist, news & exhibitions - photography-now.com". photography-now.com (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2018-11-28.
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