Dawit L. Petros
Dawit L. Petros is a visual artist born in Eritrea and based in Chicago and Montreal. Working with installation, photography, research and extensive travels, his practice centres around a critical rereading of the relationship between African histories and European modernism. In recent projects, he employs abstraction as an act of translation to push against naturalised ways of understanding form, colour and subjectivity. By drawing upon forms rooted in diverse histories, Petros' artistic language enables a metaphorically rich articulation of the fluidity of contemporary transnational experiences and attendant issues of displacement, place-making and cultural negotiation.
Recent exhibitions include: University at Buffalo Art Galleries, New York (2020), The Power Plant, Toronto (2020), Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (2018), Bamako Biennale (2017), New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans (2017), Walther Collection Project Space, New York (2016); Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2016); Kansas City Art Institute (2016); 56th Venice Biennale international exhibition (2015), Tiwani Contemporary, London (2016) the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY (2014), the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2014), the National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC (2013), and the Lianzhou International Photo Festival, China (2011). He was awarded an Independent Study Fellowship at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2012.
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Untitled (Flight Pattern), 2017
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A Series of Complicated Ambivalences, 2016
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Act of Recovery (Part I), 2016
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Indigo (Beyond the conclusive logic of monumentality, Part II), Cap Spartel, Morocco, 2016
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Nearness and Distance Constitute a Position, 2016
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Paths of a Multilateral Constellation, 2016
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The Green March (Beyond the Conclusive Logic of Monumentality), 2016
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The Green March (Beyond the Conclusive Logic of Monumentality), 2016
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Untitled, 2016
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Untitled (Distance) Cap Spartel, Morocco, 2016
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Untitled (Epilogue), Catania, Italy, 2016
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Untitled (Overlapping and intertwined territories that fall from view I), Catania, Italy, 2016
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Untitled (Overlapping and intertwined territories that fall from view II), Catania, Italy, 2016
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Untitled (Overlapping and intertwined territories that fall from view III), Catania, Italy, 2016
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Untitled (Prologue III), 2016
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Untitled (Prologue), 2016
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Single Cube Formation No.4, Nazareth, Ethiopia, 2011
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Triple Cube Formation No.1, Santa Barbara, CA, 2011
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Proposition 2, Mountain Badwater, Death Valley, California, 2007
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Proposition 3, Sign, Churchill River, Hudson Bay, Manitoba, 2007
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Dawit L Petros's best photograph: a shipwrecked Japanese trawler
Karin Andreasson, The Guardian, May 17, 2018 -
Highlights From The 1:54 Art Fair In Morocco
Garreth Van Niekerk, Huffington Post, February 28, 2018 -
Happy Days: A Tightly Curated Prospect.4 Offers a Welcome Dose of Optimism
Lauren Ross, Art News, February 23, 2018