• Pamela Council

Pamela Council is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist creating fountains for Black joy. Guided by material, cultural, and metaphysical quests, Council’s practice embodies a darkly humorous and inventive Afro-Americana camp aesthetic, BLAXIDERMY. Through this lens, Council uses sculpture, print, design, architecture, writing, and performance to shed light on under-examined narratives, and to make tributes and dedications.

Council has created commissions, exhibitions, performances or presentations for: Times Square Arts, New Museum for Contemporary Art, United States Library of Congress, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Studio Museum in Harlem, Nike, and MoCADA.

Council has been Artist-in-Residence at MacDowell , Red Bull Arts, Bemis Center, Rush Arts, MANA Contemporary, Signal Culture, Mass MoCA, ISCP, and Wassaic Project.

A recipient of the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant, Toby Devan Lewis Award, Rema Hort Mann Community Fund Award, Council holds a BA from Williams College and an MFA from Columbia University.

Council is currently a studio member at Project for Empty Space.

Speaking In:

• Contemporary Art–Painting, Public Art, Photography