Skye Jalal

FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2027 — Photowork Junior Fellowship
2025 — Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, Watson Foundation
2025 — Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts, Oberlin College
2025 — Bongiorno Prize in Art History, Oberlin College
2024 — Lucy C. Morgan Scholarship, Penland School of Craft
2023 — Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, Mellon Foundation


EXHIBITIONS
2027 — MOCA GA Gathered VII: Georgia Artists Selecting Georgia Artists, Atlanta, GA — forthcoming
2027 — Public Fabulations, curated by Imani Joseph, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL — forthcoming
2026 — Closing Ceremony, Casa Lü Parque, Mexico City, MX
2025 — Femcell Purgatory, Fisher Gallery, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
2024 — Major Objection, Baron Gallery, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
2024 — MEAT, Fisher Gallery, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH


RESIDENCIES
2027—  Resident, SOMA , Mexico City, MX
2027—  Resident, Haystack, Deer Island, ME
2027—  Resident, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2026 — Resident, Hambidge Center for the Arts, Rabun Gap, GA
2026 — Resident, Casa Lü Parque, Mexico City, MX
2024 — Resident, Hambidge Center for the Arts, Rabun Gap, GA


PUBLICATIONS
2027 — Nobody Owns the Atlantic, The Brooklyn Rail
2026 — Featured in A New South, Volume III: Hunters & Gatherers, Atlanta Center for Photography
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,” Outlandish Press
2024 — “Imagining Trinidad: Interview with Artist Django Lewis,” The Grape
2023 — “For Edmonia: Visiting Artist Yetunde Olagbaju Comes to Oberlin,” The Grape


SELECTED 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 in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO


PROFESSIONAL & TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2025 — Editor-in-Chief, The Grape Magazine, Oberlin College
2025 — Photography Teaching Assistant, Oberlin College Art Department
2025 — Darkroom Monitor, Oberlin College Art Department
2024 — Intern, Hambidge Center for the Arts, Rabun Gap, GA


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