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Marlon GRIFFITH

マーロン グリフィス

Marlon GRIFFITH

マーロン グリフィス

Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in 1976.

He has been active as a carnival designer since 2004, and has since exhibited internationally as an artist.
He has been based in Japan since 2009.

Solo Exhibition

2012 Kawanoji, Udatsu-lined Streetscape (Mino City, Gifu Prefecture), Japan
2013 Aichi Triennale "Song of the Sun" (Nagoya), Japan
2014 POSITIONS+POWER, Streets of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
2015 RING OFFIRE, Nathan Phillips Square (Toronto), Canada
2015 Symbols of Endurance, York University Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2016 SPUR, Shumoku Gallery (Nagoya), Japan
2022 Score for a Procession, Margin Gallery (Tokyo), Japan
2023 WHEREWATER FLOWS (Metamorphosis I) Tsurumai Park (Nagoya) Japan
2024 YEAR OF THE ROOSTER (METAMORPHOSIS II) Tsurumai Park (Nagoya) Japan


Group Exhibition

2014 UPHILL/DOWNHALL, Tate Gallery (London), UK
2014 Alles Maskerde!, MEWO Kunsthalle Memmingen Museum of Contemporary Art, Germany
2015 EN MAS', New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, USA
2019 Art Dubai 2019, Madinat Jumeirah (Dubai), United Arab Emirates
2020 DO IT(HOME), an online project by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist
2022 14th Havana Biennial, Wilfredo Lam Contemporary Art Center (Havana), Cuba
2022 EXPANSION, Wilfredo Lam Museum of Contemporary Art (Havana), Cuba
2022 DOCUMENTA FIFTEEN, (Kassel) Germany
2024 SCOPE ART SHOW, Miami, USA
2024 POLYGANAL/E NUIT BLANCHE, Paris, France


Awards

2010 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Guggenheim Fellowship
2010 Commonwealth Foundation Commonwealth Connections Award

Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in 1976.

He has been active as a carnival designer since 2004, and has since exhibited internationally as an artist.
He has been based in Japan since 2009.

Solo Exhibition

2012 Kawanoji, Udatsu-lined Streetscape (Mino City, Gifu Prefecture), Japan
2013 Aichi Triennale "Song of the Sun" (Nagoya), Japan
2014 POSITIONS+POWER, Streets of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
2015 RING OFFIRE, Nathan Phillips Square (Toronto), Canada
2015 Symbols of Endurance, York University Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2016 SPUR, Shumoku Gallery (Nagoya), Japan
2022 Score for a Procession, Margin Gallery (Tokyo), Japan
2023 WHEREWATER FLOWS (Metamorphosis I) Tsurumai Park (Nagoya) Japan
2024 YEAR OF THE ROOSTER (METAMORPHOSIS II) Tsurumai Park (Nagoya) Japan


Group Exhibition

2014 UPHILL/DOWNHALL, Tate Gallery (London), UK
2014 Alles Maskerde!, MEWO Kunsthalle Memmingen Museum of Contemporary Art, Germany
2015 EN MAS', New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, USA
2019 Art Dubai 2019, Madinat Jumeirah (Dubai), United Arab Emirates
2020 DO IT(HOME), an online project by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist
2022 14th Havana Biennial, Wilfredo Lam Contemporary Art Center (Havana), Cuba
2022 EXPANSION, Wilfredo Lam Museum of Contemporary Art (Havana), Cuba
2022 DOCUMENTA FIFTEEN, (Kassel) Germany
2024 SCOPE ART SHOW, Miami, USA
2024 POLYGANAL/E NUIT BLANCHE, Paris, France


Awards

2010 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Guggenheim Fellowship
2010 Commonwealth Foundation Commonwealth Connections Award

Works

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