Skye Jalal

 
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Education


2025        BA, Studio Art & Art History -- Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
2024        Penland School of Craft -- Bakersville, NC

Exhibitions


2025        Femcell Purgatory -- Fisher Gallery, Oberlin, OH
2024        Major Objection -- Baron Gallery, Oberlin, OH
2024        MEAT -- Fisher Gallery, Oberlin, OH
2023        Art Walk -- Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

Awards/Grants


2025        Thomas J. Watson Fellowship -- Watson Foundation, New York, NY
2025        Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts -- Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
2025        XARTS Grant -- Oberlin Conservatory, Oberlin, OH
2024        Gail Gorlitz Grant -- Oberlin Studio Art Department, Oberlin, OH
2024        Bongiorno Prize -- Oberlin Art History Department, Oberlin, OH
2024        Lucy C. Morgan Scholarship -- Penland School of Craft, Bakersville, NC
2023        Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow -- Mellon Foundation, New York, NY


Relevant Work Experience


2024        Undergraduate Researcher -- Mellon Mays Foundation, Oberlin, OH
2024        Darkroom Monitor -- Oberlin College Art Department, Oberlin, OH
2024        Editor in Chief -- The Grape Magazine, Oberlin, OH
2024        Photography Teaching Assistant -- Oberlin Art Department, Oberlin, OH
2023        Attendant -- For Keeps Bookstore, Atlanta, GA

Interviews


The Oberlin Review
Oberlin College Office of Communications

Selected Writing


2025        A White Christ At Ebenezer Baptist: Paradoxes of Faith in the Racialization of Christ -- Harvard MMUF Journal
2024        What isn’t mine but is mine to carry -- self published with Outlandish Press
2024        Imagining Trinidad: Interview with artist Django Lewis -- The Grape
2023        If you hate living in Ohio, maybe you should think about why. -- The Grape
2023        For Edmonia: Visiting Artist yetunde olagbaju comes to Oberlin. -- The Grape

Lectures/Presentations


2024        “Looking Upwards: Black Life Tethering Heaven to the Underworld.” -- Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
2023        “You have been fooled, hoodwinked, bamboozled.” -- Washington University, St. Louis, MO