Yusuf Lateef - "Portrait of a Young Man" Acrylic Painting

"Portrait of a Young Man"
Acrylic Painting
26" W x 29" H.


Yusuf Lateef

Education
2015- 2017 Bowling Green State University - MFA
1995-99' -Columbus College of Art and Design - BFA

Teaching
2023 - Monroe County Youth Center - Arts Programming Coordinator
2023 - Imagination Station Art Installation
2023- 3d/4d - Art 1120 - Media Studio: Space and Time- Fall / Spring
2022 - 3d/4d - Art 1120 - Media Studio: Space and Time- Spring
2022 -current - BGSU Mural class - Undergraduate and Graduate
2022- University of Toledo Ohio, Department of Art / Bowling Green State University - Current
2019 - 2021 - Visual Arts Instructor - Toledo School For The Arts - Visual Arts Introduction
2017 - Current - University of Toledo Ohio, Department of Art
2013 - Current - Teaching Artist - Youth Arts Alliance , Ann Arbor / Ypsilanti Michigan.
2016-2017- Teaching Assistantship, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green Ohio- School of Fine Arts
2013-2018- Young Artists At Work- The Arts Commission Toledo -Public Arts Instruction for students ages 14-18

Business / Organizations
- Co- Founder of The Bowling Green State University Black Artist Coalition an organization of faculty and students, offering safe space and activities geared towards BIPOC students in coalition with the greater BGSU student body

- Co- Founder of The Toledo Black Artist Coalition an organization of artists, educators, activists, and community members working to amplify the work of artists of African descent and people of color.

-Co-Founder of Radiant City Arts, A for profit Arts collective that uses poetry, sound experimentation, and visual art to create experiences for the empowerment of youth.

-Member of Rasquache Artist Research Residency - an artist residency and collective of artists working in the US and San Francisco Coapan, Cholula, a community on the slopes of the Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatepetl volcanoes in the state of Puebla in Mexico.


Selected Exhibitions / Performances / Installations
2024- In Touch -Group exhibition Curated by Megan Young - Riffe Gallery , Columbus Ohio
2023 - The Imagination Station - Tinker Lab - Julia Labay - Toledo Ohio
2023 - Together At The End - Group Exhibition - Charles Lambert and Patricia Nguyen- Contemporary Arts Network - Newport News , Virginia
2022- .R.E.C.L.A.I.M. - Washtenaw County Court House Take Over - Youth Arts Alliance
2022- Placebo - River House Arts Gallery
2021 - Tiahue Tocha - Rasquache Artist Collectivo - Visible Records - Charlottesville Virginia
2021 - Pisando Lodo (Treading Mud) - Riverhouse Gallery, Toledo Ohio
2021 - " The Meaning of Color" - Riverhouse Arts Gallery - riverhousearts.com - Online exhibition
2020 - "Context" - Adrian College Art and Design
2020 - Launch - Art in the Age of Solidarity , Walter E. Terhune Gallery / in collaboration with TBAC
2020 - FACE TO FACE - with photographer James Dickerson at The Wolfe Gallery , Maumee Ohio
2019- Crying Man - Faculty exhibition - University of Toledo School of Arts and Letters
2019 - " Something In The Way of Things" - The Porter Gallery, Toledo School for the Arts, Toledo Ohio
2017- " April 8 2017 " , Bowling Green State University
2017 - FFRU / Futures For The Rest Of Us. / Blockfort Art Gallery, Columbus Ohio. Curated by Celia C. Peters
2016 - "Re: Formation" The Gallery Project - Ann Arbor. - The Re: Conditioning - A Multi-Media Performance
2016- " Your Welcome II" - Advocates For Basic Legal Equality
2016- " Re:Conditioning III " - Re:Formation, The Gallery Project, Ann Arbor Arts Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan
2016- " Re:Conditioning II " - Re:Formation, The Gallery Project, Toledo Ohio
2016- " The Beat Down" ( Re: Conditioning I ) Bowling Green State University, Black Issues Conference
2015- " Your Welcome" - Bowling Green State University, Art X
2014- Double Dozen-A Small Works Invitational - Hudson Gallery- Toledo/Sylvania Ohio
2014-"Public Domain" - Homeport Gallery , Columbus,Ohio
2014- "New American Color"- Toledo Ohio - (curated by Jefferson Nelson)
2013- "The Art of Living"- Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
2012- Toledo Museum of Art- Quest For Fire (curated by Jerry Grey)
2012- "Between Love and Words" - Bozarts Gallery Toledo,Ohio
2011- "The Return" - Bozarts Gallery, Toledo, Ohio
2010- "The Gathering" - Bozarts Gallery, Toledo, Ohio
2009- The "B" Collective- Chop Chop Gallery- Columbus,Ohio
1998- "Valentine"- New York Studio Program -(curated by the New York Studio Residency Program, NY.)


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