Viktor L. Ewing | Givens
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IG: SouthernAndroid00
Education
2017 Masters of Fine Arts at Columbia College Chicago Interdisciplinary Arts Book and Paper
2015 Masters of Arts Interdisciplinary Arts , Columbia College Chicago
2010 Fisk University Bachelors of Arts Sociology : Art , Nashville TN
Vanderbilt University Institute for International Education Scholar international fellowship:
- 2011 Edna Manely College of Performance and Visual Arts Kingston, Jamaica
- 2009 Universidade Federal da Bahia Salvador , State of Bahia , Brazil 2008 University of Ghana Accra Legon Accra, Ghana
- 2008 Howard University, Washington DC
- 2007 Rust College , The Gambia, West Africa Introduction to Departure, a cross pollination study
Advisory Board member to the Mary Allen Museum of African American Arts and History, Crockett TX
2025
- Mississippi Center for cultural production Fellow
- In the Name of the Mother tree Jupiter performance studio Apollo Theater Harlem NY
- Fisk University 91st Spring Arts Festival Readers Series Nashville TN
- Black Artist Retreat Houston TX
- Black Houston's Symposium Rice University Houston TX
- Cowboy Sunday Folk Fest
2024
- More than watermelon: Juneteenth Observation intervention Museum Fine arts Houston TX
- Immersion Ritual Theatre: Constellation// Links Hall, Chicago IL
- Sipp Culture: cultural crossroads intensive, Utica MS
- Black Sacred Arts Conference: MUDFISH Yale University New Haven, CT
- In the Name of the Mother Tree Jupiter Performance Studios , Harlem, NY
- Black Houston's Symposium: Center for Engaged research, Rice University Houston TX
- Dah Blues womens dirge, Wooters Library Crockett TX
- Concrete Rose photo retrospect of PAtric Mccoy , Lyric Opera House, Chicago IL
- At first glance, Blanc Gallery, Chicago IL
- Who lit the Fire: Contemporary Art Center New Orleans LA
- Folk Fest “ keep on keepin’ on “ Kindred Books
- Rice University Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative learning
- The Keeping, Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn NY Public
2023
- Black Sacred arts Conference “ Vernacular Sublime: Domestic
- space as sanctuary” Yale University, New HavenCT
- Black Houston Symposium” Beyond Concrete Routes and
- Roots: Rural Urban cultural cross pollination : Rice University Houston TX
- Sankofa as Praxis: African American Research Center at the Gregory School
- “Curious Corner of Viktor le” interactive educational installation, Wooters Library Crockett TX
2022
- Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona Spain
- Munch Museum, Oslo Norway “ Keep hope Alive” a sonic Jamm
- Bourse de Commerce w/ Ideal Trouble Festival “ chilled my body but not my soul”
- Daughter of the Temple: University of Houston Opera House
- Coffee// Koolaid and the Tabernacle of ( re)memory Community Artist’s Collective Houston TX
- Til dah wata Comes: Community arts procession meditation: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Museum of Fine arts Houston TX
2021
- Afro Atlantic histories research residency: Southern Android Institute: San Juan Puerto Rico
- Contemporary Arts Museum Heritage Auction; Houston TX
- Black Spatial Relics Annual Convening: Digital Libation Series 009009: “ In the End it will all change the same”
- Heritage House Resident arts Module: Southern Android
- Institute: Crockett TX
- Tabernacles and Altars- IRL Performance Center New York NY
- Lets go Out and Play- Roulette Performance lab- Ganavya Doraiswamy New York NY
- Followin’ dah spanish moss : an Eatonville research intensive: Southern Android Institute: Eatonville Florida
2020
- Freedom Summer Visual Mix Tape: CAHM Lab artist residency Intensive: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston TX
- Mothership 9: Virtual Exodus: The great Cosmic Migration Digital Performance Saloon: Elastic Arts, Chicago IL
- In Search for Lucille: Ancestral Reverence Intensive, Carson House Plantation Marion NC
- Brown Ecologies Residency Retreat: Esperanza Spalding Productions: Tygh Valley Oregon
- Jubilee 11213: Black Spatial Relics MicroGrant for Community Care Performance Research Digital Saloon Lab NY
- Inter//Stellar: Devised Digital Theater: National Black Theater & NYU Tisch School of Drama NY
- Requiem for Jazz: University of Chicago: SunDance film Festival Documentary: Angel Bat Dawid and tha Brotha Hood
- Heritage Settlements Retreat: North Star 'nd Associates: Southern Android
- Institute Crockett TX
- Beyond Space exhibition : Detroit Carr Center : Curator Carrie Mae Weems / Anita Bateman
- Revival: Detroit Carr Center: Performance Cultural Arts intensive: Southern Android Productions
- Black Artist Retreat: Armory New York City: : Theaster Gates Curator
- REACH Festival Kennedy Center: Washington DC; Carrie Mae Weems curator
- The Spirit that Resides: 13th Havana Biennale : Magnan Gallery: Carrie Mae Weems
- Black Spatial Relics Conference
- Beyond Space exhibition & symposium, Detroit Carr Center Le Guess Who? Jazz Festival Utrecht NL
- ReWire International Festival: The Hauge NL
- Hyde Park Jazz Festival: Chicago IL
- Jazz Fest Berlin
- Uber Jazz Festival: We are Starzz: Hamburg Germany
- Beyond Space symposium, Detroit Carr Center
- Mo’lasses (re)enactment Fisk University Spring Arts Festival Nashville TN Song of Solomon a Opera , Co-prosperity lab , Chicago IL Recollection recall: afrofututrity Google Fiber Nashville TN In search of my familiar Southside Community Arts Center Chicago IL
- Remnants of a Dream: Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, Recalled Recollections Ancestral Lore: DuSable Museum, Chicago IL LIT: Mo’lasses: MFA Thesis Exhibition: Book and Paper Gallery Columbia College Chicago.
- Black Box : An Afrofuturist Opus : LeRoy Nemian Center, School of the Art Institute
- Old Black magic, Chicago Art Department ACRE residency Exhibition, Chicago IL
- The Revival :Chicago Home Theater Festival, 4H gallery , Chicago IL
- The in-between spaces; Black Matter, Black Magic, Black Manhood: Root Work Gallery, Chicago
- Before I wake: Elastic Arts Center. ,Chicago IL, Washington Park Eliza’s Peculiar cabin of Curiosities: ; Lynden Sculptural Garden Milwaukee WI. Black Art; Ancestral Legacy; Civic Center of Crockett, Dallas Museum of Art
- 88th annual Fisk University Spring Arts Festival : Alfred Steglitz Gallery, Nashville
- Ancient Futurity: Afro-futurism Conference , The New School New York Sugah’ Another kind of sweet: BING arts incubator, University of Chicago Conjuring tomorrow: an immersive exhibition. C33 Gallery,Chicago IL Aint’ I, She a Woman Ain’t she: Hunter International Gallery
- Engage/ Connect: Anthropological Mixed Tape Performance saloon : HAUS Creative Arts Center, Columbia College
- Black Intersectionality Critique University of Chicago , Arts Incubator ,Chicago IL,
- Ancestors Wake ,College Art Association Video Art Graduate Saloon ,New York
- Connect/Engage , Arcade Gallery Department of Exhibition and Performance Spaces Columbia College