BIO

Lawrence Graham-Brown

Lawrence Graham-Brown was born and raised in Jamaica. He lives and works in NY & NJ. A recipient of the Franklin Furnace Fund Fellowship, Graham-Brown is a self-educated, cross-disciplinary artist who works in sculpture, painting, performance, among other media. He uses his work as a palliative gesture to dispel the trauma and shame to which people of color, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Polysexual, Polyamorous, Transgender, Questioning, Indigenous people are routinely subjected. Lawrence's work is included in the online critical andragogical and paedagogical collection of the International Resource Network housed at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York and has been presented at the Queens Museum of Art; El Museo del Barrio; Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art; Institute of Jamaica, Museum of Ethnography; The National Gallery of Jamaica, West Indies; One of 30 artists to represent the US in the 2008 Shanghai Biennial in China; Galleria Homero Massena, Victoria, Brazil; Galerie Lutz Rohs, Duren, Germany; New York University, Grey Gallery; Creative Art Center, University of The West Indies, Jamaica; The streets of New York City, Churches, among other places.