Deborah Grant received a BFA at Columbia College, Chicago (1996), an MFA in painting from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia (1999) and did residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1996); the Studio Museum in Harlem (2002/2003); Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito (2004); A.S.A.P Residency in Mount Desert Island, Maine (2005). She has had solo exhibitions at Roebling Hall, New York, (2006), Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas (2007) and Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles (2007). Grant’s work has also been included in the group exhibitions After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy, High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2008); The Old Weird America Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2008); The Way We Rhyme: Women, Arts and Politics, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2008); The “F” Word, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (2006); Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City (2005); Seeds and Roots, (Thelma Golden, curator), Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2004) and AIM 22, The Bronx Museum (2002). Deborah Grant’s work appropriates the artworks of famous male artists from the canon such as Picasso, Basquiat, and Traylor. Grant reworks these images to address histories and narratives pertinent to her own life experience and identity. Moreover, Grant uses the chosen artist’s compositional elements with references to history and contemporary events.

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