Malik John-Marc Purvis (b.1993, South Shore, Chicago)
EDUCATION
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture - 2022
Cranbrook Academy of Art - Master’s of Sculpture - 2020-2021
Institut Américain Universitaire - Marchutz School of Art - Certificate - 2014
University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign - Bachelor’s of Fine Arts - Painting and New Media with minor in Art History - 2011-2016
SOLO AND TWO PERSON SHOWS
2024
Starfall, BasketShop Gallery, Cincinatti, OH
2023
AMFM Practical Audacity Featured Artist, Practical Audacity Therapy Office, Chicago, IL - curated by Ciera McKissick
Beneath the Firmament, Special Features, Chicago, IL - in collaboration with Kelly Kroener*
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Windows to the Inside: Expressions of Mental Health (online, juried), Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Bloom, Povos Gallery, Chicago, IL
2022
New Perspectives in Painting and Drawing (juried), St. Louis Artist's Guild, St.Louis, MS
ABSTRACTED (juried), Artless Bastard Gallery, West De Pere, WI
Far X Wide Ukraine Benefit (online exhibition), Brooklyn, NYC, NY
2021
Rising Stars: Emerging Artists from Chicago (juried), Robert T. Wright Community Gallery, Grayslake, IL
THRESHOLD (online exhbition), Far X Wide, Brooklyn, NYC, NY
Mozart Party #5: Pop-Up Show, private venue, Chicago, IL
Local Selection Vol 1: Strawberry Moon, Baby Blue Gallery, Chicago, IL - curated by Roland Santana*
2021 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, IL
BIPOC Student Union Presents: The Stories We Carry, Forum Gallery at Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, IL
Undecided, Forum Gallery at Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, IL
WHERE ARE YOU NOW? (juried). Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PN
Speculative Histories, Saarinen House at Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, IL
2019 -2015
Moz-Art Party #4, Paper Hat Gallery, Chicago, IL
Moz-Art Party #3, DIY private venue, Chicago, IL
Mental Greatness, Basement Gallery, Champaign, IL
UIUC BFA Exhibition, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
RESIDENCIES
2023 - Virgina Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
2021 - Oxbow School of Art and Artists - Longform, Saugatuck, MI
AWARDS + FELLOWSHIPS
2023 - 50th Anniversary Fellowship, Virgina Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
2022 - Emerging Museum Professional, Intuit Museum of Outsider Art, Chicago, IL
Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2021 - Longform Award, Oxbow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI
2015 – Partial Tuition Waiver, UIUC, Champaign, IL
2014 – Louise Marie Orr Grant, UIUC, Champaign, IL
PRESS
RISING STARS Lake County Artist League Interview *
COLLECTIONS
Macedonia Institute
*link in italics