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Join AAFR in welcoming our 2024-2025 Curator-In-Residence Adrian Burrell to the Black Curator's Lab.. During his 12-month studio residency he will be conducting research for a new film project, exhibiting work internationally, and curating a series of activations at the AfroPortals Project Space at Liberation Park in East Oakland.
About: Adrian Burrell is a third-generation Oakland artist utilizing photography, installation, and experimental media. His work examines issues of race, class, and intergenerational dynamics, inviting moments where collective storytelling could be a site for remembering. Burrell has lived and worked on four continents. He received his BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute, and MFA at Stanford University where he also lectured and served as Black Graduate student community outreach chair, and was a visiting artist at the Institute for Diversity in Arts. He has held artist residencies at the Black Freedom Fellowship in Salvador, Brazil, San Francisco FILM, YBCA, and the Black Rock residency in Dakar, Senegal. Burrell's work has been featured in the New Yorker, Black Star Film Festival, PopUp Magazine, Photo Ville, the Pingyao International Photography Festival China, and SXSW, among others. His first monograph, Sugarcane and Lightning, is currently available for order through Minor Matters Publishing.
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