
Miami-based artist who challenges and questions the efficacy of the role of the artist as a change agent. Mansa’s assemblage, paintings, and sculptures incorporate found materials in a way that subverts their original intent, reimagining them as apotropaic objects. His work incorporates the aesthetic of amalgamation found in grassroots roadside memorials, visionary Southern vernacular sculpture, and the West African practices of 'nkisi nkondi and bocio sculpture making. His work has been included in a number of institutional exhibitions including the Miami Museum of Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora and The African American Museum of the Arts.
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Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
WOTY 1.2, New Work by T. Eliott Mansa
Hunter East Harlem Gallery, NY2013
BFI Presents T. Eliott Mansa
Bas Fisher Invitational, Miami, FL2011
Looking Into the Fish Bowl
The Ladder Room Art Gallery, Miami, FL2009
Mary Don’t You Weep/Martha Don’t You Moan
African American Museum of the Arts, Deland, FLSELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Notices of a Mutable Terrain
Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami, FLRadio Silence
The Project Space, FAT Village, Ft. Lauderdale, FLReconstructing Identity
Miami Museum of Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora (MOCAAD), Historic Ward Rooming House, Miami, FLEver Upward
Collar Works, Troy, NY2017
Art on Paper
Amadlozi Gallery, Miami, FLWOTY 1.2, New York by T. Eliott Mansa
Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York2016
Alumni Series: Painting
New World Gallery, Miami, FL2015
My Big Black America
Rush Arts Gallery, Brooklyn, NY2014
Resurgence – Works from the Collection
Yeelen Gallery, Miami, FLShades of Black II
Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami, FL2013
For Ed; Splendor in the Grass
Green Hall Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CTWater Rites
Audrey Love Gallery at Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL44
Evolve the Gallery, Sacramento, CABlack History Month Exhibition
Amodlozi Gallery, African Heritage Cultural Center, Miami, FL2012
Annual Kuumba Kwanzaa Art Exhibition
Amadlozi Gallery, African Heritage Cultural Center, Miami, FLPuro
Coconut Grove Museum, Miami, FLINK
Mandarin Oriental, Miami, FLSmash and Grab
Locust Projects, Miami, FLMidsummer’s Night Dream Part 2
Warehouse Alternative Space, Miami, FLYoung Blood: Homecoming
ArtSeen, Miami, FLThe 12th Annual Oscar Thomas Memorial People’s Art Exhibit
Amadlozi Gallery, African Heritage Cultural Center, Miami, FLArt and Real Life: The Last Works of Master Artist Purvis Young
The Purvis Young Art Museum, Miami, FLLegacy Magazine Black History Month Exhibit
Downtown Macy’s, Miami, FLArtist Showcase from the African Diaspora
Majestical Lips, Miami, FLSlavery to Self Determination
University of Miami CAS Gallery, Coral Gables, FL2011
80 Inches of Art
The Sagamore Hotel, Miami Beach, FLArt Fallout
Girls’ Club Foundation, Ft. Lauderdale, FLSmash and Grab
Locust Projects, Miami, FLYoung Blood: So Fresh
Flagler Art Space, Miami, FLSecrets, Regrets, Joys & Truths
The Christopher Miro Gallery, Miami, FLIn Black and White
The Ladder Room Art Gallery, Miami, FLXerox as a Verb
Tomm El Saih Presents, Miami, FL2010
I’m from Miami *****!!!
Zona Verde, Miami, FLNatural Selection
Hunter Gallery, Miami, FLCrossing the Line
Buena Vista Building, Miami Design District, Miami, FLYoung Blood; New Wave
ArtSeen Gallery, Miami, FL2009
Allow Me To Re-Introduce Myself
David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL2000
Rock(y) Bullwinkle
Studio 10o3, Miami, FL1996
Dakar
Gallery 918, Baltimore, MD -
Education
2018
CUNY-Hunter College, New York, NY
MFA2013
Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT2000
University of Florida, New World School of the Arts, Gainseville, FL
BFA1996
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD1995
New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL -
Collections
The African American Museum of the Arts, Deland, FL
The Ricardo Pau-Llosa Collection, Miami, FL
The Collection of KRS-ONE, New York, NY
The Collection of Carter Wiggins LCSW, SAP, Miami, FL
The Collection of Linda Adler, San Francisco, CA
The Collection of Rosario Martinez-Cañas, Miami, FL
The Collection of Andrew and Penny Needle, Miami, FL -
Awards
2020
Residency, Oolite Arts, Miami, FL2019
Ellies Creator Award Winner, Oolite Arts, Miami, FL