Sedrick Chisom
(Born 1989, Philadelphia, PA)

Bio
Sedrick Chisom is a painter and writer who lives and works in New York. His paintings use the romantic landscape as a site where the apocalyptic narratives of white supremacy, Christianity, and climate change intersect — a scenario in which most of the built environment has been obliterated and transformed into a toxic, hallucinatory wasteland. His concerns lie with the historical construction of whiteness in fiction as an antagonism between notions of civility and barbarism, the built environment versus the “natural” landscape, and the civic human subject in relation to the monstrous absolute Other. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union (2016), where he received The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation Award For Exceptional Ability, and his MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University (2018). He was recently awarded The 2018-2019 VCU Fountainhead Fellowship in Painting and Drawing.

Website
http://sedrickchisom.com/