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Oasa DuVerney



Oasa DuVerney, a New York native, is an artist and mother. Born in 1979 in Queens, she now lives and works in Brooklyn.

Selected exhibitions, residencies and media include: (2021) Brooklyn Hi-Art Machine: Paradise Is One's Own Place, Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn, NY; (2021) Jon Gray of Ghetto Gastro Selects, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, NY, NY; (2020)2020 Women To Watch, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; (2020) Twenty Twenty, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; BLACK POWER WAVE, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY (2019); Something To Say, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY (2018); The Window and the Breaking of the Window, Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC (2016); The Brooklyn Biennial II, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY (2016); Through A Glass Darkly, Postmasters Gallery, NYC (2012); Rush Philanthropic Foundation Artist Residency (2016), Smack Mellon Studio Artist Residency (2014-2015); LMCC Workspace Residency (2012-2013); The Guardian UK, UK (2019, 2015), The Independent, UK (2016), Hyperallergic (2015, 2016, 2021), Palestine News Network (2013), and The New York Times (2020, 2012, 2011). She received her B.F.A. from SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology, and her M.F.A. from CUNY Hunter College

Oasa DuVerney’s C.V. >

Black Power Wave, Drawing For Protest, 2017, 15'x12', graphite and neon ink on hand cut paper. Courtesy of Welancora Gallery. Black Power Wave Shifting Tides, 2018, 48" x 55", graphite on hand cut paper. Courtesy of Welancora Gallery. Off Shoring (Black Power Wave), 2016, 38" x 50", graphite on hand cut paper. Courtesy of the artist. Holy Trinity, Greed Complicity and White Tears, 2018, 44" x 60", graphite on paper. Courtesy of the artist. Slogan For The Non-existent Middle Class, 2014, 17" x 21", ink and mylar on paper. Courtesy of the artist. A Scrubbing, 2011, still from video, 2 minutes 41 seconds. Courtesy of the artist. A Tucking In, 2011, still from video, 1 minute. Courtesy of the artist. Oral Hygiene, 2011, still from video, 1 minute 19 seconds. Courtesy of the artist. Digestive Assistance, 2011, still from video, 4 minutes 20 seconds. Courtesy of the artist. Putin (from the Thoughtful White Men series), 2015, 14" x 19", graphite and pastels on paper. Courtesy of the artist.


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