CARL E. HAZLEWOOD
2020 - 2021
Carl E. Hazlewood is a visual artist, curator, and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. Born in Guyana, Hazlewood received his B.F.A. with honors from Pratt Institute, New York, and his M.A. from Hunter College, New York. In 1983, he co-founded Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, New Jersey, with Victor Davson.
Hazlewood’s work is currently on view in Open Doors: June Edmonds, Carl Hazlewood, Helen Ramsaran, Chris Watts, a group exhibition at Galerie Lelong & Co. (organized in collaboration with Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles).
BlackHead Lyricism: CARL E. HAZLEWOOD was recently on view at Welancora Gallery in Brooklyn. Andrea K. Scott notes on Hazlewood’s work, “Slipping between painting, installation, and drawing, he introduces ideas of the African diasporic experience (the Middle Passage, Afro-Caribbean folktales) in layered compositions that are buoyant but searing.” Continue reading in The New Yorker Goings On About Town.
Most recently, the artist’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at David Richard Gallery (2022); June Kelly Gallery, New York (2020); Ortega y Gasset Projects, New York (2019); Grotto Gallery of The Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France; FiveMyles, Brooklyn, New York, and NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, New York (all 2018).
In 2017, Hazlewood received a Tree of Life Individual Artist Grant. That same year, he was commissioned by the Knockdown Center in Queens to create Traveler, a fifty-two foot, site-specific wall painting.
Hazlewood is a recipient of the McDowell Fellowship. Other recent awards and honors include residencies and fellowships from The Brown Foundation Fellows Program at the Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France, The Bogliasco Foundation, Genoa, Italy, NARS Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, Yaddo, and the Vermont Studio Center, among others.
Hazlewood’s work has been reviewed in publications, including BOMB Magazine, The New York Times, and Hyperallergic. His work has also been shown recently in PRIZM, Volta, and Scope Art Fairs.
WORK
“Bob Marley, the reggae singer, once remarked, some people feel the rain…others just get wet. For me it’s always the center of a storm… It’s all about being in the moment, on ‘presentness’, of always being ‘real’—
in life as well as how one approaches art with its multiplicity and endless possibilities.”
- Carl E. Hazlewood
“Theory, in particular… and even history (on occasion), gives way to practical/personal (and usually formal) impulses concerning material and the physical environment in which a particular work exists. While I've always avoided performing limited notions of ‘identity’ as an aspect of my creative work, lately, some subtle references concerning our current problematized social environment creep in–despite myself.
But I’m a border-crosser of sorts continually negotiating various transcultural, social, and artistic locations. And as an older black person, poor, an immigrant, in the current political climate I suppose I’m somewhat suspect. But functioning at that liminal edge of social and artistic possibilities perhaps my experience can be translated into something positive.”
- Carl E. Hazlewood