Torkwase Dyson is represented by Pace Gallery and Richard Gray Gallery.
12 Facts About Torkwase Dyson
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Torkwase Dyson attended Tougaloo College where she earned degrees in sociology and social work.
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Studio South Zero was Torkwase Dyson's mobile solar-powered art studio.
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From February 24,2018, to March 11,2018, Torkwase Dyson led a two-week series of classes, discussions, and experiments held at the Drawing Center.
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From May 3,2018, to July 28,2018, The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Arts presented an exhibition of Torkwase Dyson's work building off of her two-week residency at the Drawing Center, Winter Term.
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Torkwase Dyson's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide.
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Torkwase Dyson's work has been included in group exhibitions at Passerelle Centre d'art contemporain, Parrish Art Museum, The Mississippi Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, Gladstone Gallery, Gracie Mansion Conservancy, Alexander Gray Associates, California African American Museum, Sharjah at United Arab Emirates, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Socrates Sculpture Park, Whitney Museum Museum of Art, Duke University Center for Documentary Studies, the Harvey B Gantt Center and more.
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Torkwase Dyson has participated in Performa 19 creating a two-act performance and sculptural instillation titled I Can Drink the Distance: Plantationocene in 2 Acts.
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In 2023, Torwase Torkwase Dyson's work is being presented at the Sao Paulo Art Biennial, in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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In 2016, Torkwase Dyson was elected to the board of the Architectural League of New York as Vice President of Visual Arts.
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In 2019, Torkwase Dyson was awarded the Studio Museum's Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize and the Anonymous Was a Woman award for painting.
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In 2017, Torkwase Dyson was on the faculty of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and has been a visiting critic at Yale School of Art.