Theresa Chromati
Biography
1992, Baltimore, USA
Theresa Chromati’s work expands the traditional boundaries of painting through fragmented forms of desire and an abstracted figuration. The artist explores diverse layers of black womanhood through vortices of vibrant colour and texture. Chromati’s central figure manifests in various forms, often contorting, unraveling, and reaching forward overtime. Although their faces, eyes, breasts, bellies and limbs appear otherworldly, Chromati’s figures are engaged in the very human effort to find balance, strength, and empowerment in a chaotic world. The artist also explores elements of support depicted in her relationship to “scrotum flowers”, the most recurrent symbol in her iconography.
Theresa Chromati attended Pratt Institute where she began exploring her fluid relationship with painting and design. Since then, the artist’s multi-disciplinary practice has garnered critical and institutional attention. Chromati has participated in various group exhibitions, most recently at David Zwirner, Leslie Lohman Museum, The Pérez Art Museum Miami, Levy Gorvy, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, and The Extreme Present co-organized by Jeffrey Deitch and Gagosian. She has been featured in The New York Times, i-D, Interview Magazine, Juxtapoz, Hyperallergic, Document Journal, Architectural Digest, and Vogue to name a few. Her works belong to the permanent collections of The Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Burger Collection, Hong Kong; Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; and The Dean Collection, New York, NY. The artist is currently living and working in Baltimore, MD
Works
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In mid air - a touch so close (in transit alongside a scrotum flower), 2022
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Touching next steps - untie me (lead by a scrotum flower), 2022
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BB - body blossom (be the seed be the growth), 2022
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shedding, 2022
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slippery moments of rest (still I am stretching), 2022
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only I can catch me (emergence), 2022
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I'm stepping high, I'm drifting, and there I go leaping (stages of arrival), 2022
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what no longer, what is, what can (I see you there and I extend past you), 2022
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BB body blossom, the choices are infinite, 2022
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steadfast, step into me (allow silence to create the sounds you desire most), 2022
Exhibitions
News
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VEINTICINCO
La galería VETA participará en la Semana del Arte de Hong Kong March 25, 2024Entre el 25 y el 30 de marzo, la galería VETA by Fer Francés aterrizará en la Semana del Arte de Hong Kongpor partida doble:...Read more -
CULTURED
Meet Theresa Chromati, the Artist Who Uses Felt and Glitter To Construct ‘Testicular Flora’ November 29, 2023Metal supports—structures with the hard-line industrial feel of a factory farm’s machinery—fill the space in “DOOM BLOOM,” Theresa Chromati’s show with Dallas’s Tureen gallery this...Read more -
XIAO MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
I'm Stepping High, I'm Drifting, and There I Go Leaping September 13, 2022XIAO MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 'The exhibition 'I'm Stepping High, I'm Drifting, and There I Go Leaping' features 65 works by 49 female and gender-nonconforming...Read more -
i-D magazine
Theresa Chromati explores the power of uncertainty August 1, 2022On the heels of a new group show, we spoke to the artist about diving fearlessly into the unknown and creating 9ft scrotum flower totems....Read more -
VOGUE
14 Black Artists on Life in America Right Now August 12, 2020The Artist Statements project is an ever-evolving creative tribute to the agonies and the ecstasies of Black American life—from police brutality and civil rights activism...Read more
Press
Art Fairs
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Frieze Sculpture
London 18 Sep - 27 Oct 2024 -
Art Central HK 2024
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EXPO CHICAGO 2023
Chicago 13 - 16 Apr 2023We are pleased to announce our participation at Expo Chicago 2023 with a very special selection of works by Christian Rex van Minnen, Matías Sánchez,...Read more -
ZONAMACO 2023
Mexico City 8 - 12 Feb 2023We are pleased to announce our participation at ZONAMACO 2023 with a very special selection of works by Atanda Quadri Adebayo, Theresa Chromati, Julio Galindo,...Read more