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Janiva Ellis

 * Editors’ Picks: 19 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week
 * This article gives insight into a new work Janiva Ellis exhibited in 2020. Ellis displayed her work at the "2020 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts" at the American Academy of Arts and Letters. This is notable information and just has not been updated yet.
 * Hammer Projects: Janiva Ellis | Hammer Museum
 * Wikipedia states Ellis occasionally paints religious symbols and leaves it at that. However, I would like to conclude late Gothic and Renaissance art mashed with current-day modernist art to describe her style. I also will add Ellis's work “Hammer Projets: The Angels” (2022) to her exhibited work list.
 * LEVI, P., Six Artists Who Are Taking Their Work to a New Level., n.d.
 * I want to pull information about Ellis’s early life and education from this article."When it didn’t come, she moved back home to Hawaii to think through her feelings of isolation, which she was convinced stemmed from having grown up in “a place where I didn’t know any black person until I was 18.” (LEVI n.d.) I want to add this to her early life because it is a critical factor in why and how Ellis created her work. Being a minority has its challenges, and being biracial has its challenges. As a collective whole, we put people in a box that can only be that one thing. However, when you are biracial like me, your self-identity can be easily shaken if you do not truly love yourself. Though it never states she is biracial, I want to dive deeper into Ellis's upbringing around different cultures and races.
 * “the hysterical moments when you realize your perceptions of safety are false”—through the lens of memory, race, and media that informed her childhood."(LEVI n.d.)
 * "Like much of Ellis’s art, the painting is a dizzying, psychologically astute mash-up of faces, masks, media, and religious references that, says Ellis, “reconcile who I am, how I feel, and how I’m perceived.” a.s."(LEVI n.d.)
 * ‘We Were Seeing and Feeling Anxiety’: The Whitney Biennial Curators on How Artists’ Struggle With Debt and Real Estate Shaped the 2019 Show.
 * From here, I want to add something about the Whitney Biennial and how it was  "The 79th edition presents a roster of 75 artists that veers disproportionately young, showcasing predominantly artists of color who have never exhibited at the museum before,"(Anon n.d.) Janiva Ellis is an art activist not by choice but under the circumstances of today's world.  
 * "...this emphasis resulted from what we saw during our research across the US, as we were struck by the profound difficulties of our current moment and the ways in which so many artists we encountered are struggling and facing fewer opportunities to present their work publicly.”(Anon n.d.)

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== Early life and education[edit] == Born in Oakland, California, Ellis moved to Hawaii at the age of 7, moving between the islands of Kauai and Oahu. Raised solely by her white mother, in a state with a small black population, Ellis uses her art practice to investigate and examine the complex racial dynamic of her upbringing. Ellis studied painting at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, graduating in 2012.


 * I would like to add information on her current day workspace in New York, which she returned to after taking a break from art in 2012 and returning home to Hawaii. In an article it wrote, "In 2012, Janiva Ellis took a break from painting. She left the California College of the Arts and went to New York hoping to find inspiration. When it didn’t come, she moved back home to Hawaii to think through her feelings of isolation, which she was convinced stemmed from having grown up in “a place where I didn’t know any black person until I was 18.” By 2017, the artist, who is now 31, had returned to New York, and to painting." I want to expand on where the wikipedia article left off. Janiva Ellis graduated in 2012 along with taking a pause in the art world.

Artistic practice[edit]
Ellis describes her paintings as “not only an attempt to communicate to nonblack women my experience, but also to call to other black women, ‘Do you feel this, too?’” Critics have commended Ellis for the psychoanalytic tension in her paintings. Occasionally, the paintings incorporate religious symbology; such as lambs or angels, referencing the canon of religious painting. In 2017, Ellis presented "Lick Shot" at 47 Canal, her first solo show in New York City. In 2018, Ellis participated in the New Museum Triennial - “Songs for Sabotage.” Ellis was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial curated by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta.


 * I want to dive deeper into Janiva Ellis's practice of representing her experience as a young woman of color, and the struggle artists are facing to get their work shown.

Selected exhibitions[edit]

 * 2017 - "You Catch More Flies With Arsenic Than Honey” - Club Pro, Los Angeles, California
 * 2017 - "Cabin Fever" - BBQLA, Los Angeles California
 * 2017 - Lick Shot” - 47 Canal, New York City
 * 2017 - Prick Up Your Ears” - Karma International, Los Angeles, California
 * 2018 - “Painting: Now & Forever, Part III” - Greene Naftali, New York City
 * 2018 - Triennial: “Songs for Sabotage” - New Museum, New York City
 * 2019 - Whitney Biennial 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City


 * I would like to add the following work of Janiva Ellis, The Angles (2022) , displayed at the Hammer Vault Gallery.
 * I would also like to add another work of Ellis, Keebler’s Revenge, (2018), displayed at The American Academy of Arts and Letters.