DETROIT INAUGURAL ARTIST EDITIONS

Darryl DeAngelo Terrell

Darryl DeAngelo Terrell (b. 1991) is a Detroit-based artist who primarily works within lens-based media in addition to performance and writing. They are also a Curator, DJ, and Organizer. Terrell received their Bachelor of Fine Art from Wayne State University in 2015 and their Master of Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017. Darryl works under the philosophy of F.U.B.U (This Shit Is For Us*). Their work is currently exploring afro-surrealism, thinking of how to get Black people free from the presence of whiteness; getting Black people to “elsewhere”. Darryl is also exploring queerness and desire by way of a fat, Black, femme and non-binary alter-ego named Dion. Pulling from influences they observed growing up on the Eastside of Detroit, their work is affected by popular culture traversed through media such as music, movies, and other similarly related sources. Through photography, video, and performance art, it is Terrell’s ultimate goal to aid larger conversations about Blackness and its many intersectionalities.

Darryl is a 2021 Black Rock Senegal Resident, 2021 Redbull House of Art Resident, 2019—2020 Document Detroit Fellow, 2019 Kresge Arts In Detroit Fellow of Visual Arts, 2019 Artist in Resident at Northeastern Illinois University, 2018 Luminarts Fellow in Visual Arts, 2017—2018 Hatch Project Artist in Resident at Chicago Artist Coalition, 2017 Artist in Resident at ACRE, 2017 semifinalist for the Edes Fellowship. They have performed and exhibited work at The Museums of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago IL, The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, NYC NY, The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, IL, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, The Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, TN, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale, AZ and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC.

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