INSTITUTIONAL CURATION

Chevremont has curated exhibitions for renowned institutions and galleries, including Pioneer Works, Parrish Art Museum, Venus Over Manhattan, Yancey Richardson Gallery and more.

Tribeca Film Festival’s Artist Awards Program

Each year, Tribeca Film Festival’s Artist Awards program selects a cohort of esteemed artists who agree to generously donate a work that is presented to winning filmmakers. Chevremont curated the program in 2022 and 2023, working with artists like Nina Chanel Abney, Leilah Babirye, Renee Cox, Beverly Fishman, Sheree Hovsepian Deborah Roberts, Shinique Smith, Hank Willis Thomas and many more.

The program seeks to recognize the intersection between creative fields and celebrate New York City’s continued spirit of cultural innovation. For 2023, Chevremont’s exhibition showcased the strength, beauty and diversity of women.

This Too Shall Pass
Venus Over Manhattan | July 11 - August 4, 2023

This Too Shall Pass was a group exhibition that explored concepts of impermanence, transience, personal memory and ongoing change. Featuring both emerging and established artists working in various media, the exhibition explores the multilayered themes of floral visuals. The works featured both figurative and abstract representations of flowers, carefully selected for their ability to embody the strength that lies within their inherent fragility and convey the essence of impermanence. Artists included Alex Anderson, Leilah Babirye, Coady Brown, Melissa Joseph, Diana Sofia Lozano, Natia Lemay, Charles Mason III, Maia Cruz Palileo, Ferrari Sheppard and Shinique Smith.

Natia Lemay, "Mother's Day," 2023. Oil, acrylic and marker on canvas; 52 x 68 in (132.1 x 172.7 cm)

This Too Shall Pass, Installation View, Photo by Zachary Fischman Courtesy of Venus Over Manhattan

Set It Off
Parrish Art Museum | May 22 - July 24, 2022

As part of Deux Femmes Noires, Chevremont co-curated Set It Off, which brought together work by Leilah Babirye, Torkwase Dyson, February James, Karyn Olivier, Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Kennedy Yanko. Often combining multiple elements of paintings, sculpture, installation, sound and language, each artist in Set It Off engaged the monumental, the site-specific or the immersive in their practice.

SET IT OFF, installation view. Courtesy Parrish Art Museum.

Mining The Archive
Yancey Richardson Gallery | June 5 - August 13, 2021

Mining The Archive was a group exhibition featuring new work by nine African American artists using diverse approaches to photo collage and a variety of archives to question ideas around identity, memory, beauty and history. The artists—including Sadie Barnette, Lyle Ashton Harris, Leslie Hewitt and Deborah Roberts—examined the relationship between the political, the personal and the material. Vernacular photography, personal archives, iconic photographs, popular magazines, vintage calendars and the internet were among the myriad of sources from which the artists have drawn their imagery. Through the fragmentation, deconstruction, juxtaposition and layering of these media, the artists transformed the familiar into the strange and conjured new meaning from the ordinary.

Mining the Archive, installation view.
Courtesy Yancey Richardson Gallery.

Brand New Heavies

Pioneer Works | April 2 - June 20, 2021

Under Deux Femme Noires, Chevremont co-curated Brand New Heavies and brought together monumental work by Abigail DeVille, Xaviera Simmons and Rosa-Johan Uddoh. The exhibit, Inspired by the name of an acid jazz and funk group formed in 1985 in West London, featured new, site-specific installations that combined video, sculpture and architecture; composed of natural, industrial and found materials to viscerally engage history, memory, place, pop culture, spirituality
and desire.

Brand New Heavies, installation view. Courtesy the artists and Pioneer Works. Photo: Olympia Shannon /
Dan Bradica Studio.