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Safiyah Maurice
safiyah.mauricec@gmail.com
503.442.2683

Education
2019 BFA Fine Art Practices Portland State University
2023 MFA Studio Practices Portland State University

Curatorial Exhibitions
2023
Littman+White Gallery, Mariposa; The Art of Healing, Artist: paola de la cruz, curator April 2023
Littman+White Gallery, Welcome to my Happy Place, Curator: Dr. Kiara Hill and Rose, curator
February 2023

2022
Littman+White Gallery, Sorry I Missed Your Call, I was Busy Regressing, Artist: Zeinad Saab, curator, september 2022
Littman+White Gallery, FRONT YARD PARKING & REAL CLEAN, Artist: Isabeau Waia’u Walker, curator, June 2022
Littman+White Gallery, I’m The Main Character: Radical Dreaming & Art for the Masses, Artist: Nia Musbia, April 2022
Littman+White Gallery, Regarding Hostile Terrain, collaboration: Mrinalini Tankha, curator, April 2022
Littman+White Gallery, PussyKat Loading…Artist: Marquise Dickerson, Curator, February 2022
Littman+White Gallery, Retrospective, curators, September 2022

2021
Shed: Mutual Aid Residency, Leena Joshi, Selena Mateus, Brittany,& Keesha Driscoll, “Reciting
the marking of you” August 2021
Virtual Littman+White Gallery, The We See This Series: Artist: Nneka Peters, Curator, April 2021
Virtual Littman+White Gallery, Illuminate, Artist: Jarlisa, Curator, June 2021
Virtual Littman+White Gallery, Spiritual Grounding Through the 7 Directions, Artist: Michael
Viola, Curator, June 2021
Virtual Littman+White Gallery, Shuffle and Reshuffle, Artist: Coco Ma, Curator, January 2021

2020
Virtual Littman+White Gallery, The Trials of Blackness, Artist: Ashly Sypherd Curator, Virtual Littman+White Gallery, Works in Progress: Homogeneity is a Myth, Can You See Me
Now, and To Be A Slave Artist: Micheal B. Maine, Curator, August 2020
Virtual Littman Gallery, Galleries Clouded Sentiment, Artist: Vinh Pham Curator, April 2020
Littman Gallery, Standing Strong: The Awakening, Artist: Josué Rivas Curator, March 2020
White Gallery, Shahnameh, Artist: Kaveh Negahani, Curator, January 2020
2019 Shed: mutual aid Project Space, Brown Space, Artist: Jordan Shelby, Curator / Installation, November 2019
White Gallery, Perpetuating Family Systems, Artist: Olivia Kincaid, Curator, October 2019
Shed: Project Space, Constant Nausea Party, Artist: Vinh Pham, Curator, September 2019
Littman Gallery, i have no choice but to suck the juice, and who am i to blame, Artist: Maya Vivas, Curator, September 2019
Littman Gallery, Under Pressure, 7th Annual Juried Exhibition, Co-curator with Srijon Chowdhury, May 2019
Littman Gallery, (US), psuartistsofcolorcollective group show, Artists: Maya Stoner, Vinh Pham,
Tim Tran, Courtney Gallardo, Cupid “Dagger” Daglyn, and Christian Orellana-Bauer, Curator, April 2019
White Gallery, Black Futures Month, Artists: Alisa Sikelianos Carter, Habiba Abdul Rahim,
Lamarra Haynes, and Lisa Jarrett, Curator, February 2019
Littman Gallery, On Drawing, Artists: Eleanor Erskine, Lisa Jarrett, & Hugh Merrill, Curator, January 2019

2018
Littman Gallery, ghosts & venus, Artists: maximiliano (Max Martinez) + rise x fall, Curator, November 2018
White Gallery, Strategy Guides, Artist: Norah Horwitz, Co-Curator with Andrew D. Jankowski, September 2018
Littman Gallery, Storied Texture, Artists: Jeffrey Liddicoat + ariella tai, Co-Curator with Andrew D. Jankowski, August 2018
2017 Multnomah Arts Center, Muslim United Charity Art Show, group show / performance, Curator, January 2017

Artist Exhibitions

2023
PSU The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, MFA thesis final project, At this time–I fear the land between two rivers, Artist May 2023
AB Lobby Galleries, MFA thesis work, Open to Whatever, artist April 2023
2022 MK Galleries Juma Jarms, MFA studio practice program, artist April 2022
2021 AB Lobby Galleries, Black Sheep Collective collaboration, temporal, artist september 2020
2020 Portland Unknown Film Festival, different planes of existence, guest curator september 2020
2019 Erickson Gallery, Curio, Black Sheep Collective group show, curator–artist, November 2019
Urban Gallery, Cascadia Heart, October 2019
Littman Gallery, Open During Construction, BFA exhibition group show, June 2019
Sugar Cube Free Palestine exhibit, BFA Studios, solo exhibition, May 2019
2018 Smith Memorial Student Union PSU, Black Art Night, group show, May 2018
2017 MK & AB Lobby Galleries, Vertical, group show, November 2017

Professional Experience– workshops, collaborative projects

2023
Critical Race Theory– Amara H. Pérez: BIPOC A+D Student Cohort Issues and Spatial Aspirations, lever architecture Design Team 2023
BFA Vertical lab Assistant Professor september 2023
We in Space Program, engineer building club March 2023

2022
Tide ‘hear you calling out’ project, equity intake of student experiences of racism in school of art and design April 2022
School of Art & Design, faculty hiring committee, 2D Media professor April 2021
Racism Research Project, self led equity research into racism on campus February 2022

2020
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, director hiring committee August 2020
BFA Vertical lab, Assistant Professor september 2020
2019 AB Lobby Gallery, Beneath the music from a farther room, Artist: manuel arturo abreu,
Co-Organizer and Co-Curator with Ralph Pugay and psuartistsofcolorcollective, May 6 – 24th

2019
Native American Student and Community Center, A Movement Workshop with Takahiro Yamamoto, Organizer with Ralph Pugay and psuartistsofcolorcollective, February 26th, 2019
2018 psuartistsofcolorcollective curatorial director, Artist, and co-founder Black Sheep Collective curatorial director, Artist, and do-founder
Internship Ori Gallery curatorial internship, install, deinstall, and gallery hours February 2018
Curator Littman + White curator duties April 2018

Press
The Pacific Sentinel, “Artists on Campus: PSU Artists of Color Collective,” June 2019
Oregon Arts Watch, “The lens is cracked: Art and protest in the summer of 2020 Andrew D.
Jankowski and Safiyah Maurice give an inside view of the visual art and culture components of the Black Lives Matter protests in Portland. August 2020