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JAMEA RICHMOND EDWARDS

Detroit, MI, USA

Painting, Collage, Drawing

Richmond-Edwards, Jamea (b. Detroit, Michigan) is a painter based in Detroit, Michigan. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Jackson State University and a Master of Fine Arts from Howard University (2012), where her practice was shaped by the aesthetics of Africobra. In 2019 she was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, leading to a residency in 2020.


Solo exhibitions include Ancient Future at MOCA North Miami (2023); Currency at Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, and Library Street Collective, Detroit (2022); Twenty Twenty at the South Bend Museum of Art (2020); and a forthcoming exhibition at the Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, New York (2025). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Phillips Collection, the Brooklyn Museum, the California African American Museum, the Frist Art Museum, the Rubell Family Museum, and the Baltimore Museum of Art, among others. Her work has also traveled in the exhibitions Multiplicity: Collage in Contemporary America and A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration.

<p class="font_8">Richmond-Edwards, Jamea (b. Detroit, Michigan) is a painter based in Detroit, Michigan. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Jackson State University and a Master of Fine Arts from Howard University (2012), where her practice was shaped by the aesthetics of Africobra. In 2019 she was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, leading to a residency in 2020.</p>
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<p class="font_8">Solo exhibitions include <em>Ancient Future</em> at MOCA North Miami (2023); <em>Currency</em> at Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, and Library Street Collective, Detroit (2022); <em>Twenty Twenty</em> at the South Bend Museum of Art (2020); and a forthcoming exhibition at the Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, New York (2025). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Phillips Collection, the Brooklyn Museum, the California African American Museum, the Frist Art Museum, the Rubell Family Museum, and the Baltimore Museum of Art, among others. Her work has also traveled in the exhibitions <em>Multiplicity: Collage in Contemporary America</em> and <em>A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration</em>.</p>

Selected Works

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