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Manuel Arturo Abreu(born 1991) is aDominicanartist, poet,[1][2]critic, and curator from theBronx.[3] Abreu has written two books, poems, and essays, and participated in and curated group art installations. Their bookIncalculable Lossis a finalist for the 2019Oregon Book Awards:Sarah WinnemuccaAward forCreative nonfiction,while their poetry collectiontranstrenderwas a finalist for the 2018Oregon Book Awards:Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry. Abreu co-facilitates a free pop-up art school called home school inPortland,OR.[4][5][6]

Education

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Abreu received his BA in Linguistics fromReed CollegeinPortland, Oregonin 2014.[7]Their thesis was onaccusativeclitic doublinginDominican Spanish.[8]

Writing

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In addition to two books of poetry and one book of prose,[9][10][11][12][13]Abreu has written a number of essays,[14][15]and published conversations with artists and poets.[16][17][18][19]Their poetry is focused on many subjects, including art, race, gender, and other topics.[20][21]They have published atRhizome,Art in America,[22][23]AQNB, and elsewhere.

They are known for highly polemical essays dealing withantiblacknessin culture and art. They wrote an essay about, "Online Imagined Black English," a phenomenon where users of social media users imagine the qualities ofAfrican American Vernacular Englishdue to increased exposure to Black media, adopt it for expressive purposes that generally rely onstereotypesof Black people as lazy, criminal, cool, hypersexual, and otherwise.[15][24][25][26][27][28]They also wrote an essay about the commodifying nature ofsocial practice art[29][30]which reflects on ideas fromClaire Bishop.

Art shows

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Abreu participated in group art installations at Rhizome and the New Museum (online), the Cooley Gallery (Portland), Chicken Coop Contemporary (Portland), Veronica project space (Seattle), AA/LA Gallery (Los Angeles), and theArt Gym(Marylhurst University).

  • Black Artists of Oregon,Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (2023)
  • Cry Me a River,Simian, Copenhagen, Denmark (2023)
  • THE ARCHIVE AS...Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany (2023)
  • With CASSANDRA Press,On Self-Defense,Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway (2023)
  • Transactions with Eternity,Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2022)[31]
  • With CASSANDRA Press.Quiet as It’s Kept,Whitney Museum of American Art (2022)
  • ECLIPSE: Athens Biennale 7,Athens (2021)
  • Study Room.HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz (2021)
  • Life Constantly Escapes,Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna (2021)
  • pen pressure,Haus Wien, Vienna (2020)
  • Not Total,Portland Community CollegeParagon Gallery, Portland, OR (2019)[32][33]
  • Radical Reading Room,Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (2019)
  • I Scare Easily,Yaby, Madrid (2019)
  • obsequies,AA|LA Gallery, Los Angeles (2018)[34]
  • a re:trospective;a group show curated as part of the home school project in collaboration with the Re:Art Show; Old Pfizer Factory, Brooklyn, NY (2018)[35][36]
  • This is a Black Spatial Imaginary,PCC Cascade Paragon Gallery, Portland, OR (2017)
  • From Concrete to Liquid...Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (2017)
  • Cabin Pressure,BBQLA, Los Angeles, CA (2017)
  • Quota,SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA (2017)
  • First Look: New Black Portraitures,New Museum,NY (2017)[37]
  • resilience,Institute for New Connotative Action, Seattle (2016)[38]

Awards

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Year Award Name Placement Project
2019 Precipice Fund Grant Recipient home school[39]
2019 Yale Union residency Recipient home school[40]
2019 CentrumEmerging Artist Residency[41] Recipient N/A
2019 Oregon Book Awards:Sarah WinnemuccaAward forCreative nonfiction Finalist Incalculable Loss(Institute for New Connotative Action Press)[42]
2018 Oregon Literary Fellowship[43][44] Fellow N/A
2018 Oregon Book Awards:Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry Finalist transtrender(Quimérica Books /Ugly Duckling Presse)[45][46]
2017 Precipice Fund Grant Recipient home school[47]
2017 Precipice Fund Grant Recipient black apotrope[47]
2017 Open Media Signal Fellowship[48] Fellow N/A
2017 Rhizome Microgrant Awardee home school[49]
2016 Regional Arts & Culture CouncilGrant Awardee home school[50]
2015 Precipice Fund Grant Recipient home school[51]

Bibliography

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  • Abreu, Manuel Arturo; Ford, Eleanor (2018).Incalculable loss.ISBN9780997763935.OCLC1085290773.Nominated for the Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction 2019.[9][10]
  • Abreu, Manuel Arturo (2016).transtrender.ISBN9781937027841.OCLC975486061.[11][12][13]
  • Abreu, Manuel Arturo (2015).List of Consonants.Bottlecap Press.ISBN978-1-946340-07-8.

References

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  1. ^Crandall, Max (August 2016)."A Look at 'Vetch' a Magazine for Trans Poetry and Poetics".Lambda Literary Foundation.Retrieved15 March2019.
  2. ^"NewHive hosts an intriguing first Trans Planet Online Reading".UWIRE.October 2017.Retrieved15 March2019.
  3. ^"manuel arturo abreu: Incalculable Loss | INCA".Retrieved5 March2019.
  4. ^Abreu, Manuel Arturo (13 December 2018)."manuel arturo abreu – Poet | Academy of American Poets".manuel arturo abreu.Retrieved5 March2019.
  5. ^"A Free, Pop-up Art School In Portland Attempts to Exist Outside the Art World".Willamette Week.Retrieved24 January2020.
  6. ^"A safe space for deep criticism of art".Oregon ArtsWatch.22 June 2018.Retrieved24 January2020.
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  8. ^"Accusative Clitic Doubling in Dominican Spanish, 2014 | Semantics | Semiotics".Scribd.Retrieved24 January2020.
  9. ^ab23 Jan, Suzette Smith •; Pm, 2019 at 3:30."Pump Your Reading List Up: The 2019 Oregon Book Finalists Are Here".Portland Mercury.Retrieved14 March2019.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ab"What New Yorkers Should Put on Their Summer Reading Lists".The Village Voice.June 2018.Retrieved15 March2019.
  11. ^ab"Yani Robinson reviews Manuel Arturo Abreu's Chapbook, Transtrender".Apogee Journal.1 May 2017.Retrieved12 March2019.
  12. ^ab"Thinking Beyond Colonial Gender: A Review of Manuel Arturo Abreu's Transtrender".Retrieved12 March2019.
  13. ^ab"The violence of naming + necessity: Reading through porous bodies in manuel arturo abreu's transtrender".atractivoquenobello.30 January 2017.Retrieved12 March2019.
  14. ^abreu, manuel arturo (October 2017). "Embodying Survivance".Art in America.105:92–95 – via ESBCO.
  15. ^ab"Online Imagined Black English—Manuel Arturo Abreu".arachne.cc.Retrieved15 March2019.
  16. ^"JACOB KIRKEGAARD – ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS".fonik.dk.Retrieved15 March2019.
  17. ^"Butching it up + dumbing it down: Ser Serpas in conversation on shitty childhoods, respectability + erasure".atractivoquenobello.9 August 2017.Retrieved15 March2019.
  18. ^"n-prolenta: Against Black Disposability by manuel arturo abreu".atractivoquenobello.11 November 2016.Retrieved15 March2019.
  19. ^"Still I shitpost: Cory in the Abyss on a communism of the visual + antiblackness in the meme-o-sphere with manuel arturo abreu".atractivoquenobello.12 December 2017.Retrieved15 March2019.
  20. ^"We've Always Been Here, Fighting by Christopher Soto".Poetry Foundation. 18 March 2019.Retrieved18 March2019.
  21. ^"The Room in Spite of by Ari Banias".Poetry Foundation. 18 March 2019.Retrieved18 March2019.
  22. ^abreu, manuel arturo (25 September 2017)."Embodying Survivance".ARTnews.com.Retrieved26 January2020.
  23. ^abreu, manuel arturo (29 April 2019)."Claim Boundaries: Artists of the Northwest at Portland Art Museum".ARTnews.com.Retrieved26 January2020.
  24. ^"What Up Internet".Rhizome.Retrieved15 March2019.
  25. ^"Bobby Shmurda: Viral and Invisible | New Criticals".www.newcriticals.com.Retrieved15 March2019.
  26. ^Writer, Bobbi Booker Tribune Staff (13 July 2018)."'Digital blackface' unmasks social media unease ".The Philadelphia Tribune.Retrieved18 March2019.
  27. ^"2015: The Year According to Black Futures (Kimberly Drew & Jenna Wortham)".walkerart.org.Retrieved15 March2019.
  28. ^D'Clark, Rayvenn Shaleigha D'Clark (January 2018)."Poor Meme, Rich Meme".Retrieved15 March2019.
  29. ^abreu, manuel arturo."We Need to Talk About Social Practice".Art Practical.Retrieved26 January2020.
  30. ^"We Need to Talk About Social Practice - Frontpage - e-flux conversations".conversations.e-flux.com.Retrieved26 January2020.
  31. ^Afzali, Noushin (10 August 2022)."Form and Being Collude in 'Transactions with Eternity'".Ocula.Retrieved2 September2023.
  32. ^"Not Total by Rindon Johnson, Jonathan Gonzalez, and manuel arturo abreu".pcc.edu.Retrieved26 January2020.
  33. ^"Not Total: Jonathan González, manuel arturo abreu, and Rindon Johnson | PCC Cascade Paragon Arts Gallery".60 Inch Center.Retrieved26 January2020.
  34. ^""obsequies" at AA|LA (Contemporary Art Daily) ".contemporaryartdaily.com.Retrieved26 January2020.
  35. ^Mallett, Whitney (6 November 2018)."A 'Retrospective for Emerging Artists in Bushwick'".Vulture.
  36. ^"a re:trospective at Pfizer Pharmaceutical Factory – Art Viewer".Retrieved26 January2020.
  37. ^"online black art is moving from instagram to bitmapping'".i-D at Vice.Retrieved27 March2019.
  38. ^"manuel arturo abreu | INCA".Retrieved26 January2020.
  39. ^"2019 Grant Recipients".PICA.Retrieved24 January2020.
  40. ^"YU".Retrieved26 January2020.
  41. ^"Centrum's Emerging Artist Residency | Centrum".centrum.org.Retrieved26 January2020.
  42. ^"Announcing the 2019 Oregon Book Awards Finalists".Literary Arts.Retrieved5 March2019.
  43. ^"Past Recipients: Writers".Literary Arts.Retrieved5 March2019.
  44. ^Davidson, Caroline (May 2018)."Recent Winners".Poets & Writers:91–101 – via PROQUEST.
  45. ^Maxwell, M. (February 2018)."Three locals earn nominations".The Register.Retrieved15 March2019.
  46. ^Wang, Amy (February 2018)."2018 Oregon Book Awards Finalists Announced".The Oregonian.Retrieved15 March2019.
  47. ^ab"2017 Grant Recipients".PICA.Retrieved5 March2019.
  48. ^Center, Open Signal: Portland Community Media (4 March 2019)."Introducing Our Fall…".Open Signal: Portland Community Media Center.Retrieved5 March2019.
  49. ^"Announcing the 2017 Microgrant Awardees".Rhizome.Retrieved5 March2019.
  50. ^Bauer, Mary (16 December 2016)."RACC awards $733,608 in project grants for 2017".Regional Arts and Culture Council.Retrieved5 March2019.
  51. ^"2015 Grant Recipients".PICA.Retrieved5 March2019.
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