MADJEEN ISAAC
based in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
2021 MA, New York University, New York, NY
2018 BFA, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
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 FREE THE LAND!, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporian Arts - Brooklyn, NY
- Gifts of the Soil, Mitochondria Gallery - Houston, TX
- Any of the Many, NY Crit Club x The Canopy Program - New York, NY
- 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
- 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 Reset, NADA Curated, Online
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2025 Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist in Residence - Sausalito, CA
- 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
COMMISSIONS & COLLABORATIONS
2024 Audio-Technica, an art and music collaboration with Audio-Technica - New York, NY
- Don’t Ask, Just Manifest, SaveArtSpace x PARADICE PALASE - New York, NY
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
PRESENTATIONS & ARTIST TALKS
2025 Diasporic Dialogues: Early Career Artist Panel, Forgotten Lands x The Shed - Panelist
- 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 María Elena Ortiz in conversation with Atong Atem, Madjeen Isaac, and Timothy Yanick Hunter, New Art Dealers Alliance - Panelist
- Art Speak: Alumni Lecture, The Fashion Institute of Technology - Visiting Artist, Speaker
- Widline Cadet In Conversation | with Didier William, Madjeen Isaac, and Abigail Lucien, Studio Museum in Harlem - Panelist
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
2025 Forgotten Lands Vol. 07 Poetics of Architecture - Forgotten Lands
- Vol. 33, Number 1 Transforming Anthropology -The University of Chicago Press Journals
- 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 creative workshop, SunSpot Studios, Brooklyn, NY (2021), DreamYard, Bronx, NY (2022) & The Laundromat Project, Brooklyn, NY (2022)
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last updated October 2025