DANIELLE BRATHWAITE-SHIRLEY | CV

CV

DANIELLE BRATHWAITE-SHIRLEY

BORN 1995

LIVES AND WORKS IN LONDON

This document was updated on 25 September 2021 and is for reference only

EDUCATION

2019
BFA Slade School of Fine Art, London

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021
She keeps me damn alive, arebyte Gallery, London — UK [forthcoming]
Haunting Alongside Our Shadows, QUAD, Derby — UK
I cant remember a time I didnt need you, ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY, London — UK [online]
We Are Here Because of Those That Are Not, Spike Island, Bristol — UK
RESURRECTION LANDS, Skånes konstförening, Malmö — SE [online]

2020
Tate Modern, London — UK [live performance]
RESURRECTION LANDS, Focal Point Gallery, London — UK
Resurrection Pro League, MU Hybrid House, London — UK
We Are Here Because of Those That Are Not, Science Gallery, London — UK

2019
Almanac Projects, London — UK [live performance]

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021
To Dream Effectively, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea — UK

2020
Listening for the Unsaid (curated by the Racial Imaginary Institute), David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles — US [online]

2019
RESURRECTION LANDS, Les Urbaines, Lausanne — CH
Digging for Black Trans Lives, LESBIENNALE, 4:3 Boiler Room [online]
Trans-Port Me, arebyte Gallery, London — UK [online]
Trans-Port Me, 4:3 Boiler Room [online] 
BBZ GRADUATE SHOW, Copeland Gallery, London — UK
Queer and Now: From Stonewall to Queertopia, Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich — DE
AFROTECH FESTIVAL, Rich Mix, London — UK
Performance Club, Raven Row, London — UK

2018
Transpose: The Future, Barbican, London — UK
What’s good for me is good for you? A physical multilogue Part 3, Mimosa House, London — UK
Platform 1, Bloomsbury Theatre, London — UK

2017
SPIT, Freeze Projects, London — UK
Other’d Artists & Travis Alabanza, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow — UK

2016
Fade to Purple, Charlton Gallery, London — UK
ICA Bloomberg New Contemporaries, ICA, London — UK  

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (ARTICLES & REVIEWS)

2021
“The Culture Club: Larry Achiampong and Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley,” ArtReview (Summer 2021) [ill.] [online]
“Interview with Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley.” Feminist Review and Women’s Art Library #129 (Autumn 2021) [online]
“The Culture Club: Larry Achiampong and Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley.” ArtReview (20 August 2021) [ill.] [online]
Russell, Legacy. “How Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley Archives the Black Trans Experience.” Art in America (May/June 2021):26 [ill.] [print]

2020
Vallette, Judith. “Gaming, Visibility and Black Trans Experience: An Interview with Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley.” Berlin Art Link (14 August 2020) [ill.] [online]
Hart, Tamara. “Dining on trauma: Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley talks trans-tourism, motherhood, & being a ‘Freaky Friday everyday.” AQNB (10 August 2020) [ill.] [online]
Clarke-Brown, Tamar. “Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley interview.” Queerdirect (29 March 2020) [ill.] [online]
Guobadia, Otamere. “This video game celebrates the stories of Black trans people.” i-D (18 March 2020) [ill.] [online]

2019
“Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley.” BBZ.BLK.BK. (Summer 2019) [ill.] [online]

2018
Ong, Jyni. “Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley is an animation and sound artist archiving their existence as a Black trans person.” It’s Nice That (24 September 2018) [ill.] [online]
Ubuntu, Rebekah. “Guest Editor – Rebekah Ubuntu Interviews Daniel Brathwaite-Shirley.” The Sampler (8 January 2018) [ill.] [online]

2017
No, Mariel. “Travis Alabanza reframes the traditional gallery with THE OTHER’D ARTIST/S.” gal-dem (17 June 2017) [online]

SELECTED ARTIST TALKS

2021
“The Culture Club: Larry Achiampong and Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley,” ArtReview and The Standard Hotel, London — UK [postponed]
 “Future Art Ecosystems” (annual online strategic briefing, guest speaker), Serpentine Galleries [online]
“Audience is a Medium” (talk and workshop), New Now Festival, Zollverein, Essen — DE
“Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley in conversation with Kamra Hakim,” online

2020
“System Errors: Abolitionist Technologies and Aesthetics” Panel (with Juliana Huxtable and Legacy Russell), online 

2018
“Dream Babes” event panel, Barbican, London — UK
“How to work a look” event panel, Photographers Gallery, London — UK
Artist Talk, Royal Academy of Arts, London — UK

2017
“Let Me Show You A Body”, Tate Modern, London — UK
“Queer and Now” (with Harold Offeh), Tate Britain, London — UK  

SCREENINGS

2018
BLACKZILLA screening, Trans Film Festival, Berlin — DE

SELECTED PROJECTS

2019
Sound Design for We Dig play, Oval House, London — UK
Sound Design for I tried to fuck up the system but none of my friends texted back at Wellcome Collection, London and Marlborough Theatre, Brighton — UK; Frascati Theatre, Amsterdam — NL
Sound Design for Hotter Than a Pan, The Yard, London — UK

AWARDS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES

2021
Instagram Residency, “Imagining Disaster: Science Fiction X Contemporary Art”, Open Eye Gallery [online]
Artist in Residence, New Now Festival, Zollverein, Essen — DE

2020
QUAD International Digital Fellow 2020-2021
Net/Work Residency, Wysing — UK

2019
Visting Artist, Royal Academy of Arts, London — UK 
Residency Takeover, White Pube [online]