MADJEEN ISAAC
based in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
2021 New York University, New York, NY
MA Art + Edu & Community Practice
2019 Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Museum Education Practicum
2018 Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
BFA Fine Art, Minor Art History
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Come As You Are, This is Our Battle Too, Smack Mellon - Brooklyn, NY
2022 Beyond the Mountains, Sean Horton (Presents) - New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Pearl of the Antilles, CaribBEING House x Photodom - Governor’s Island, NY
- Reimagining Kinship, Welancora Gallery - Brooklyn, NY
- KITH Artist Series (5 Year Anniversary), Brooklyn Museum - Brooklyn, NY
- Revoliysion Toupatou, Anna-Maria & Stephen Kellen Gallery - New York, NY
2024 The Brooklyn Artist Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum - Brooklyn, NY
- Don’t Ask, Just Manifest, SaveArtSpace x PARADICE PALASE - New York, NY
- BYENVENI, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute - New York, NY
2023 Memory Garden, Swivel Galley - Brooklyn, NY
- Everything, Earth and Sky, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
- KITH Artist Series, Traveling Exhibition (New York, NY; Paris, France)
- The Horses Stood Like Men, Jenkins Johnson Projects Gallery - Brooklyn, NY
2022 Let’s Grow!, Alpha Arts Alliance x Grown in Haiti
- Reset, NADA Curated, Online
2019 Sa Se Lakay, GHOST Gallery - Brooklyn, NY
ART FAIRS
2025 1-54 New York, Fridman Gallery - New York, NY
- Future Fair, Archie Raphulu Projects - New York, NY
- Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair, Du-Good Press x Powerhouse Arts - Brooklyn, NY
2024 UNTITLED Art Fair, Fridman Gallery - Miami, FL
2022 UNTITLED Art Fair, Sean Horton (Presents) - Miami, FL
COMMISSIONS & COLLABORATIONS
2024 Audio-Technica, an art and music collaboration with Audio-Technica
2023 KITH Artist Series Capsule 2023, a collaboration with KITH
2020 Migration, community art mural commissioned by Haiti Cultural Exchange in collaboration with NY Department of Transportation - Brooklyn, NY
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2025 (Forthcoming) Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist in Residence - Sausalito, CA
- (Forthcoming) The Church, Artist in Residence - Sag Harbor, NY
- Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Artist in Residence - Johnson, VT
2023/24 Smack Mellon, Artist in Residence - DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
2022/23 BRIClab: Contemporary Art, Artist in Residence - DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
2022 The Laundromat Project, Create Change Fellow - Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Haiti Cultural Exchange, Lakou Nou: Artist in Residence - Brooklyn, NY
AWARDS & GRANTS
2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship - Finalist
2024 The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation - Grantee
- NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship (Painting) - NYSCA/NYFA
- Dumbo Dozen Award (for artistic merit at Smack Mellon) - DUMBO Improvement District
2022 Women of Distinction Award, Arts & Entertainment - Proclamation awarded and recognized by Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn
2021 City Artist Corps Grant - New York Foundation for the Arts
PRESENTATIONS & ARTIST TALKS
2025 Narratives of Environmental Justice, New York University - Visiting Artist, Speaker
2024 Inherited Medicine: Miatta Kawinzi and Madjeen Isaac in conversation with Erica N. Cardwell, Smack Mellon - Artist Talk
2024 The Power of Place: Home, 'Foreign', & Belonging, African and Diasporic Religious Studies Association x Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute - Panelist
- Madjeen Isaac & Emily Manwaring on Creative Practice, Storytelling & Embracing West-Indian Heritage, Rememory Directory x Soho Works - Panelist
2022 NADA Curated Conversation,New Art Dealers Alliance - Panelist
- Art Speak: Alumni Lecture, The Fashion Institute of Technology - Speaker
- Widline Cadet In Conversation | with Didier William, Madjeen Isaac, and Abigail Lucien, Studio Museum in Harlem - Panelist
PRESS & FEATURES
2025 15 Outstanding Artworks from the May 2025 New York Art Fairs - Artsy
2024 ‘The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition’ Review: A Borough’s Blazing Creativity - The Wall Street Journal
2023 KITH Honors Black History Month - KITH
- 8 Artists Who are Grappling with Climate Change and Imagining a Better World - Article by Samantha Harrington, Yale Climate Connections
2022 The Artist Capturing Community Joy Through Magically Surreal Paintings - Article by Ashley Tyner, i-D
- Platform - Artwork Feature and Launch
- Madjeen Isaac Takes Us Beyond the Mountains - Essay by Sadaf Padder
- Reclaiming Joy, Reimagining Community: Madjeen Isaac, Article by Tyla Pink for Black Cherry Magazine
- Blackness Unbound : Afrofuturism and the Revolutionary Imagination - Mutale Nkonde, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum - Artwork Feature
COMMUNITY
Re-Imagine Your Hood, a community art making workshop, SunSpot Studios, Brooklyn, NY (2021) & The
Laundromat Project, Brooklyn, NY (2022)
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last updated June 2025