Carl E Hazlewood
Carl E. Hazlewood is a visual artist, curator, and writer. He was elected a National Academician, class of 2025 on the 200th anniversary of the National Academy of Design. Born in Guyana, Hazlewood is based in Brooklyn, New York, where he received his B.F.A. with honors from the Pratt Institute, NY. His M.A. is from Hunter College, New York. He co-founded Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art (1983-2018) in Newark, New Jersey, with Victor Davson.
Writing about BlackHead Lyricism (https://www.welancoragallery.com/exhibitions/18-blackhead-lyricism-carl-e.-hazlewood/press_release_text/), CARL E.HAZLEWOOD’s solo exhibition at Welancora Gallery in Brooklyn, Andrea K. Scott noted about 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 (https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/carl-e-hazlewood).
Most recently, the artist’s work has been the subject of a Dia Art Foundation, solo exhibition, “Activations: Carl E. Hazlewood at the Chelsea Recreation Center”, Chelsea, and “BlackHeadAnansi: Constellations”,at Charlotte & Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, North Carolina, both in 2023. His solo, “RACING THOUGHTS - FEVER DREAMING” was presented at ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH, Florida, in 2022 by Welancora Gallery. Other solo exhibitions were at 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).
Hazlewood is the recipient of the Newark Museum of Art’s 2026 Artistic Impact Award which will be presented in October 2026. 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.
Aside from his recent election as a National Academician, he has been awarded residencies from MacDowell and Yaddo, 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, the Vermont Studio Center, and Art Cake among others.
Hazlewood’s work as artist and curator has been reviewed in various publications, including BOMB Magazine, The New York Times, and Hyperallergic. His work has also been shown recently in Frieze, Armory, PRIZM, Volta, and Scope Art Fairs.
