
Originally from Kingston Jamaica, Crystal Marshall's paintings pay homage to her life's experiences rooted in cultural disparities in the modern-day African diaspora. Her distinctive personal style emanates isolation, self reflection and expresses the spirit and atmosphere of the black consciousness in efforts to reconcile its relationship with true identity and image. Symbolic motifs such as wool, thorns, hair, figurative and allegorical representations are just some of the visual tools used to express displacement, hostility, victimization, exclusion, oppression and withdrawal. As the artist explains, “I am a storyteller and I welcome the viewer to be a part of this visual journey, to share in my experience.”
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Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
CICA Contemporary Art Solo Show (forthcoming)
CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea2021
STARTnet Art Fair Solo Booth (forthcoming)
Saatchi Gallery, London, United KingdomGROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Form 2021 (forthcoming)
Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Museum, Gimpo, South KoreaTokyo International Art Fair (forthcoming)
Belle Salle Roppongi, Tokyo, JapanSmall Works Show
Grandview Avenue Gallery at AAC, Atlanta, Georgia“Us All”
Lynn Tendler Bignell Gallery, Brookfield, ConnecticutAnnual Postcard Pin-up Show
MINT Gallery, Atlanta, GeorgiaBarcelona Art Expo
Artbox. Gallery, Barcelona, SpainArt in the Time of Corona, Vol.2
Dab Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CaliforniaVirtual Exhibit
Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden, North Salem, New YorkThe Era of Change
Visionary Projects, New York, New YorkDreaming of Equ>lity
Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California2020
Artbox.project World 1.0
Artbox. Gallery, Zurich, SwitzerlandCovid.19 The Art of Isolation/Survey 3
Curator’s Voice Art Projects, Miami, Floridait’s a small world: A Virtual Community Art Exhibition
The Walt Disney Family Museum, San Francisco, CaliforniaCrisis Mode Virtual Exhibit
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CaliforniaTheFL3TCH3R Exhibit: Socially & Politically Engaged Art
Reece Museum at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TennesseeVirtual Exhibit
Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden, North Salem, New YorkReality or Abstraction
Grandview Avenue Gallery at AAC, Atlanta, GeorgiaCrush Walls Billboard Exhibition
Save Art Space at Dateline Gallery, Denver, ColoradoInternational Contemporary Art Fair: Art 3f
Vangogh Art Gallery, Kirchberg, LuxembourgPaper Girl BK
Brooklyn Art Project, Brooklyn, New YorkSwiss Art Expo
Artbox. Gallery, Zurich, SwitzerlandBack to the Drawing Board
Grandview Avenue Gallery at AAC, Atlanta, Georgia2019
Miami Art Basel
Artbox. Gallery at Eduardo Lira Art Gallery, Miami, FloridaSwiss Art Expo
Artbox. Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland2016
Intersectionality Theory
Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, Florida2009
Transformers II: More Than Meets The Eye
Gateway Gallery MICA, Baltimore, Maryland2008
Vernon Jones Black Student Union Exhibit
Baltimore, Maryland2007
Vernon Jones Black Student Union Exhibit
Baltimore, Maryland2006
Pont Aven Student Exhibit
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Education
2008
Zayed University
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesMaryland Institute College of Art
BFA General Fine Arts, Baltimore, Maryland2006
Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art
Pont Aven, France2005
Edna Manley College of Art
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Awards
2021
The Denis Diderot (A-i-R) Grant, Chateau d’Orquevaux, France2020
The FL3TCH3R Exhibit, Award of Merit, Johnson City, TennesseeReality or Abstraction, 1st Place Award, Grandview Gallery at AAC, Atlanta, Georgia
Back to The Drawing Board, Honorable Mention, Grandview Gallery at AAC, Atlanta Georgia
2006
Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art, Full Scholarship, Pont Aven, France