Ayanna Dozier

Born in Riverside, CA 1990
lives and works in Brooklyn, NY


Education

Ph.D. Art History & Communication Studies, Graduate Option in Gender & Women Studies, McGill University, Montréal, QC, 2020
M.A. Media Culture & Communication New York University, New York, NY, 2014
B.A. Art History & French Literature & Film Chapman University, Orange, CA, 2012


Selected Awards, Grants and Residencies

Penumbra Workspace Residency, Penumbra Foundation, New York, NY, 2024/25
Winter Workspace Arts Residency, Wave Hill, Riverdale, NY, 2022
Joan Tisch Teaching Fellowship Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 2017-2022
Field Residency, Field Projects, New York, NY, 2022
NYC: OPEN CALL, The Shed, 2021
Filmmaker in Residence, MONO NO AWARE, New York, NY, 2019-2020
Helena Rubinstein Fellow, Critical Studies Program Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY, 2018-2019


Solo Exhibitions

“Get on Your Knees, Jesus Loves You,” Microscope Gallery, New York, NY (Upcoming, Spring 2025)
“Touch Me on the Inside and Call Me By My Name,” Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 2023
“This Country Makes it Hard to Fuck,” Microscope Gallery, New York, NY 2023
“Softest,” Evening Hours, Gallery, New York, NY 2019


Selected Group Exhibitions

2025
“Ramp’s Edge,” Below Grand, New York, NY
“American Gurl,” Harvey B. Gannt Center for African-American Arts & Culture, Charlotte, NY

2024
“American Gurl,” Harvey B. Gannt Center for African-American Arts & Culture, Charlotte, NY

2023
“American Gurl,” Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, CA
“The Crisis of Images at Arlington Museum,” Washington, D.C.
“When I Am Empty Please Dispose of Me Properly,” BRIC, Brooklyn, NY

2022
“American Gurl,” presented by Womxn in Windows, Times Square NYC
“A room full of mirrors,” Fragment, New York, NY
“Subtle Subversions,” Microscope Gallery, New York, NY
“Flesh to Spirit: Materiality and Abstraction in Black Experimental film,” The Block Museum, Chicago, IL

2021
“Wide Awakes: In Process,” Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, NY “Open Call,” The Shed, New York, NY

2019
“Westside Exposure,” Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY

2018
“Two Readings,” Evening Hours Gallery, New York, NY

2014
“Adrian Piper’s The Probable Trust Registry,” Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY


Selected Screenings & Performances

2024
“Film Series: Verbatim,” Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
“Experimental Tuesdays: Short Films Ayanna Dozier,” Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
“Bounded Intimacy,” Medica City Film Festival 2024, co-presented with San Francisco Cinematheque, Windsor, Ontario Canada
“Program 4,” Crossroads Film Festival, San Francisco Cinematheque at Gray Area / Grand Theater, San Francisco, CA

2023
“Cellluloid Now Day 1: Film Party,” Constellation, Chicago, IL
“Screening and Conversation: Ayanna Dozier, Ilana Harris-Babou, Buzz Slutzky,” BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY
“Shorts: A Counterchange of Saltires,” Alchemy Film & Arts, Haywick UK
“Program 6: Burning from the Inside,” Crossroads Film Festival, San Francisco Cinematheque at Gray Area, San Francisco, CA
Prismatic Ground Festival, New York, NY

2022
“Flesh to Spirit: Materiality and Abstraction in Black Experimental Film,” Block Cinema, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Alfred’s Cinema at Metrograph, New York, NY
Mono No Aware XVI, Cinema Arts Festival, 718 Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Blow-up Arthouse Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Prismatic Ground, Maysles Documentary Center, Maysles Documentary Center, Harlem, NY
“Screening 16: The History of that Body,” Ecstatic Static (online)

2021
BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, UK
Onion City Experimental Film & Video Festival, Chicago, IL

2020
Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK
Open Air Screenings at MONO NO AWARE, Brooklyn, NY
Open City Docs Film Festival, London, UK
“Screening 16: The History of that Body,” Ecstatic Static (online platform), Femme Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA


Selected Artist Talks

“Visiting Artist: Ayanna Dozier,” The New School, New York, NY 2024
“Artist Talk: Ayanna Dozier in conversation with Brittany L. Proctor,” Microscope Gallery, New York, NY 2023
“Screening and Conversation: Ayanna Dozier,” Ilana Harris-Babou, Buzz Slutzky,” BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY 2023
“Artist Talk, Decoding Stigma” at Parsons Design & Technology, New York, NY 2022
“A Lecture with Ayanna Dozier,” Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY 2021
Beyond Representation: Towards a Counter-Poetics in Black Image and Film-making, Fine Arts Reading, Reading, PA 2020
Room at Concordia University, Montréal, QC 2020
Cinematic Mimicry: The Velvet Rope’s Cinematic Dances, Hybrides: An International Forum, Bodies and Motion Pictures from Scratch: Popular Culture and Low-Tech Screendance, Montréal, QC 2019
Artist Discussion and Screening: Autumn Knight, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY 2019