Manuel Arturo Abreu

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Manuel Arturo Abreu (born 1991) is a Dominican artist, poet,[1][2] critic, and curator from the Bronx.[3] Abreu has written two books, poems, and essays, and participated in and curated group art installations. Their book Incalculable Loss is a finalist for the 2019 Oregon Book Awards: Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative nonfiction, while their poetry collection transtrender was a finalist for the 2018 Oregon Book Awards: Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry. Abreu co-facilitates a free pop-up art school called home school in Portland, OR.[4][5][6]

Education

Abreu received his BA in Linguistics from Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 2014.[7] Their thesis was on accusative clitic doubling in Dominican Spanish.[8]

Writing

In addition to two books of poetry and one book of prose,[9][10][11][12][13] Abreu has written a number of essays,[14][15] and published conversations with artists and poets.[16][17][18][19] Their poetry is focused on many subjects, including art, race, gender, and other topics.[20][21] They have published at Rhizome, Art in America,[22][23] AQNB, and elsewhere.

They are known for highly polemical essays dealing with

stereotypes of Black people as lazy, criminal, cool, hypersexual, and otherwise.[15][24][25][26][27][28] They also wrote an essay about the commodifying nature of social practice art[29][30] which reflects on ideas from Claire Bishop
.

Art shows

Abreu participated in group art installations at Rhizome and the New Museum (online), the Cooley Gallery (Portland), Chicken Coop Contemporary (Portland), Veronica project space (Seattle), AA/LA Gallery (Los Angeles), and the

).

Awards

Year Award Name Placement Project
2019 Precipice Fund Grant Recipient home school[39]
2019 Yale Union residency Recipient home school[40]
2019 Centrum Emerging Artist Residency[41] Recipient N/A
2019 Oregon Book Awards: Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative nonfiction
Finalist
Incalculable Loss (Institute for New Connotative Action Press)[42]
2018 Oregon Literary Fellowship[43][44] Fellow N/A
2018 Oregon Book Awards: Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry
Finalist
transtrender (Quimérica Books / Ugly Duckling Presse)[45][46]
2017 Precipice Fund Grant Recipient home school[47]
2017 Precipice Fund Grant Recipient black apotrope[47]
2017 Open Media Signal Fellowship[48] Fellow N/A
2017 Rhizome Microgrant Awardee home school[49]
2016 Regional Arts & Culture Council Grant Awardee home school[50]
2015 Precipice Fund Grant Recipient home school[51]

Bibliography

  • Abreu, Manuel Arturo; Ford, Eleanor (2018). Incalculable loss.
    OCLC 1085290773. Nominated for the Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction 2019.[9][10]
  • Abreu, Manuel Arturo (2016). transtrender.
  • Abreu, Manuel Arturo (2015). List of Consonants. .

References

  1. ^ Crandall, Max (August 2016). "A Look at 'Vetch' a Magazine for Trans Poetry and Poetics". Lambda Literary Foundation. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  2. ^ "NewHive hosts an intriguing first Trans Planet Online Reading". UWIRE. October 2017. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  3. ^ "manuel arturo abreu: Incalculable Loss | INCA". Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  4. ^ Abreu, Manuel Arturo (13 December 2018). "manuel arturo abreu – Poet | Academy of American Poets". manuel arturo abreu. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  5. ^ "A Free, Pop-up Art School In Portland Attempts to Exist Outside the Art World". Willamette Week. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  6. ^ "A safe space for deep criticism of art". Oregon ArtsWatch. 22 June 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  7. ^ "manuel arturo abreu". Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA). Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  8. ^ "Accusative Clitic Doubling in Dominican Spanish, 2014 | Semantics | Semiotics". Scribd. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  9. ^ a b 23 Jan, Suzette Smith •; Pm, 2019 at 3:30. "Pump Your Reading List Up: The 2019 Oregon Book Finalists Are Here". Portland Mercury. Retrieved 14 March 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ a b "What New Yorkers Should Put on Their Summer Reading Lists". The Village Voice. June 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  11. ^ a b "Yani Robinson reviews Manuel Arturo Abreu's Chapbook, Transtrender". Apogee Journal. 1 May 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  12. ^ a b "Thinking Beyond Colonial Gender: A Review of Manuel Arturo Abreu's Transtrender". Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  13. ^ a b "The violence of naming + necessity: Reading through porous bodies in manuel arturo abreu's transtrender". atractivoquenobello. 30 January 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  14. ^ abreu, manuel arturo (October 2017). "Embodying Survivance". Art in America. 105: 92–95 – via ESBCO.
  15. ^ a b "Online Imagined Black English—Manuel Arturo Abreu". arachne.cc. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  16. ^ "JACOB KIRKEGAARD – ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS". fonik.dk. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  17. ^ "Butching it up + dumbing it down: Ser Serpas in conversation on shitty childhoods, respectability + erasure". atractivoquenobello. 9 August 2017. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  18. ^ "n-prolenta: Against Black Disposability by manuel arturo abreu". atractivoquenobello. 11 November 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  19. ^ "Still I shitpost: Cory in the Abyss on a communism of the visual + antiblackness in the meme-o-sphere with manuel arturo abreu". atractivoquenobello. 12 December 2017. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  20. ^ "We've Always Been Here, Fighting by Christopher Soto". Poetry Foundation. 18 March 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  21. ^ "The Room in Spite of by Ari Banias". Poetry Foundation. 18 March 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  22. ^ abreu, manuel arturo (25 September 2017). "Embodying Survivance". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  23. ^ abreu, manuel arturo (29 April 2019). "Claim Boundaries: Artists of the Northwest at Portland Art Museum". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  24. ^ "What Up Internet". Rhizome. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  25. ^ "Bobby Shmurda: Viral and Invisible | New Criticals". www.newcriticals.com. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  26. ^ Writer, Bobbi Booker Tribune Staff (13 July 2018). "'Digital blackface' unmasks social media unease". The Philadelphia Tribune. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  27. ^ "2015: The Year According to Black Futures (Kimberly Drew & Jenna Wortham)". walkerart.org. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  28. ^ D'Clark, Rayvenn Shaleigha D'Clark (January 2018). "Poor Meme, Rich Meme". Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  29. ^ abreu, manuel arturo. "We Need to Talk About Social Practice". Art Practical. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  30. ^ "We Need to Talk About Social Practice - Frontpage - e-flux conversations". conversations.e-flux.com. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  31. ^ Afzali, Noushin (10 August 2022). "Form and Being Collude in 'Transactions with Eternity'". Ocula. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  32. ^ "Not Total by Rindon Johnson, Jonathan Gonzalez, and manuel arturo abreu". pcc.edu. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  33. ^ "Not Total: Jonathan González, manuel arturo abreu, and Rindon Johnson | PCC Cascade Paragon Arts Gallery". 60 Inch Center. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  34. ^ ""obsequies" at AA|LA (Contemporary Art Daily)". contemporaryartdaily.com. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  35. ^ Mallett, Whitney (6 November 2018). "A 'Retrospective for Emerging Artists in Bushwick'". Vulture.
  36. ^ "a re:trospective at Pfizer Pharmaceutical Factory – Art Viewer". Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  37. ^ "online black art is moving from instagram to bitmapping'". i-D at Vice. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  38. ^ "manuel arturo abreu | INCA". Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  39. ^ "2019 Grant Recipients". PICA. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  40. ^ "YU". Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  41. ^ "Centrum's Emerging Artist Residency | Centrum". centrum.org. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  42. ^ "Announcing the 2019 Oregon Book Awards Finalists". Literary Arts. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  43. ^ "Past Recipients: Writers". Literary Arts. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  44. ^ Davidson, Caroline (May 2018). "Recent Winners". Poets & Writers: 91–101 – via PROQUEST.
  45. ^ Maxwell, M. (February 2018). "Three locals earn nominations". The Register. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  46. ^ Wang, Amy (February 2018). "2018 Oregon Book Awards Finalists Announced". The Oregonian. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  47. ^ a b "2017 Grant Recipients". PICA. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  48. ^ Center, Open Signal: Portland Community Media (4 March 2019). "Introducing Our Fall…". Open Signal: Portland Community Media Center. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  49. ^ "Announcing the 2017 Microgrant Awardees". Rhizome. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  50. ^ Bauer, Mary (16 December 2016). "RACC awards $733,608 in project grants for 2017". Regional Arts and Culture Council. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  51. ^ "2015 Grant Recipients". PICA. Retrieved 5 March 2019.