Born in 1974
Lives and works in New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
STOCKROOM Ezekial on view at Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (forthcoming)
Gestalt, Pond Society, Shangai, China
2020
Self Must Die, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
Shelter, Contemporary Art Museum of St.Louis, St.Louis, MO
2019
The House Always Wins, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, UK
JRRNYS, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Half Mast, 95 Horatio Street, The Whitney Museum of American Art Billboard Project, New York, NY
Derek Fordjour: Camelot Study, BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Brookyln, NY
Zona Maco, Mexico Arte Contemporaneo, solo booth with Luce Gallery
2017
Parade, Sugar Hill Museum, New York, NY
Dallas Art Fair, solo booth with Luce Gallery
2016
Agency & Regulation, Luce Gallery, Torino, IT
Derek Fordjour : Eight Paintings, Papillion Art, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Upper Room, Robert Blumenthal Gallery, New York, NY
Meritocracy, Jack Bell Gallery, London, UK
2014
The Big Game, Storefront Ten Eyck Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Fifteen Years, Dominic Chambers, Ryan Cosbert, Robert Davis, Derek Fordjour, Connie Harrison, Yowshien Kuo, Hugo McCloud, Johanna Mirabel, Peter Mohall, Demarco Mosby, Ludovic Nkoth, Collins Obijiaku, Zéh Palito, Francesco Pirazzi, Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy
2021
Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, New York, NY (forthcoming)
2020
100 Drawings from Now, Drawing Center, New York, NY
Private View: Selections from ABHK, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
Open Air, Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy
Majeure Force, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, LA
Art Basel Curated Selection, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
Uptown 2020, Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY
CONTEMPORARY ART + DESIGN: New Acquisitions, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
2019
Painting Is Its Own Country, The Harvey B. Center, Charlotte, NC
Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary, California African-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Transmissions, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg
2018
To Dream Avant-Garde, Hammonds-Harkins Galleries, Columbus, OH
Everyday Muse, ltd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Cliche, Almine Rech Gallery, New York, NY
Fun House, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, UK
Reclamation! Pan-African from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
Sidelined, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
2017
Diamonds, Rings and Courts, Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery at SJU, NY
All that Glitters, Rachel Uffner, New York, NY
Selections, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Human Condition, The Hospital, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Fling, Johannes Vogt Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Island States, Tops Gallery, Memphis, TN
March Madness, curated by Hank Willis Thomas & Adam Shopkorn, Fort Gansevoort, New York, NY
2015
I Like it Like This, Sothebys S2 Gallery, New York, NY
And There is an End, Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Mixed Doubles, Sometimes Gallery, New York, NY
No Such Place, Edward Tyler Nahem Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Open, Papillion Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Corpus Americus, Driscoll Babcock Gallery, New York, NY
EDUCATION
2016
MFA, Hunter College, New York, NY
2002
Ed.M., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2001
BA, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA
Pratt Institute College of Art and Design
COLLECTIONS
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Palm Beach
JP Morgan Chase Collection, New York
Ernesto Esposito Collection, Naples
Craig Hall, Hall Group Collection, Dallas