Something always comes before and that before is a story of power; we walk among ghosts. A surface that receives an image is no different. Stacked and staggered canvas banners suggest a flattened array of styles and intentions, a kind of screen space–like having multiple windows open on your desktop. They can also allude to identity, which for me is provisional and always under construction. These disparate images remain distinct and become unified through form and color. It is a way to embody a relational system materially.

Nadir Souirgi grew up in New York City and Miami, born to a Haitian mother and a Moroccan father. Adopting the position of the trickster, his work considers notions of authenticity—both in terms of categorization and gesture—and where those contracts fail. He draws from visual histories such as branding, speculative fiction and abstraction. Sourigi received his MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2024 and was the recipient of the 2024 Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize for excellence in painting.

EDUCATION

 

2020 – 2021
Milton Avery Graduate School of Art, Bard College

 

2022 – 2024
MFA candidate, Yale School of Art, Painting and Printmaking department

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2021
Metonym, Bass Fisher Iinitiative, Miami

 

2019
Selective Adaptations, School, Vienna

 

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

 

2023
Atopia, David Castillo, Miami

 

2022
The Floral Impulse, David Castillo, Miami
Assembly of Repair, Klasse für Alle, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Megafauna Land Dwellers, YoungArts Gallery, Miami

 

2021
Birding the Anthropocene, Aesthetic Relations Conference, University of Copenhagen, DE

 

2020
Birding the Anthropocene, Friendly Confrontations: Festival of Global Art and Criticisms of Institutions, Müchner Kammerspiele, Munich

 

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

“What’s at Stake/What’s Missing”, Camera Austria International 2020 Issue 150/151

“Notes on Whiteness as a Blind” The Great Bird Blind Debate, Planting Fields Foundations 2020.

 

AWARDS & RESIDENCY PROGRAMS

 

2024
Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize for Excellence in Painting, Yale University School of the Arts, New Haven, CT

 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

 

Yale University Art Collection, New Haven, CT