Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste
Born 06 September, 1984 in Baton Rouge, LA. Lives and works in Richmond, VA.
New York Gallery Representation by Martos Gallery
EDUCATION
May 2014
Master of Fine Arts in Performance and Interactive Media Art - Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
December 2008
Bachelor’s in Music Education. - Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
SELECT WORKS, SHOWINGS, PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS
2025 (upcoming)
- Yet-to-be-titled project, with DeForrest Brown Jr. and Steve Goodman, The Canary Test, Los Angeles, CA
- The Art Gallery Problem, exhibition and performance, Blackwood Gallery at University of Toronto Mississauga
2024
- Unmarked Car, performance and sound installation, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, CA
- The Woodshed, with Taja Cheek (as The JAM), curatorial project for Harmony Holiday’s Black Backstage, The
Kitchen, New York, NY
- Break Stuff, solo exhibition, Other Plans, New Orleans, LA
- …And Drive (Far Away), With Me, film screening, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY (upcoming September 2024)
- Dance, Dance, Revolution, performance, Participant Inc., New York, NY (upcoming September 2024)
- Going To See A Man About A Dog, solo exhibition, Yes We Cannibal, Baton Rouge, LA (upcoming December 2024)
2023
- Y’all Don’t Wanna Hear Me (You Just Wanna Dance), performance, Metaspore Symposium, San Francisco, CA
- Unmarked Car, performance and sound installation, Triple Canopy Symposium, New York, NY
- …and Drive (Far Away); Texas Phase, 2-ch video installation with sound, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2022
- Y’all Don’t Wanna Hear Me (You Just Wanna Dance), performance, Féria Material vol. 8, Ciudad de México, MX
- I Would Prefer Not To (Stay Cool), solo exhibition, Human Resources Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
- …and Drive (Far Away), performance and sound installation, co-presented by ICA at Virginia Commonwealth
University (Richmond, VA) , 1708 Gallery (Richmond, VA), Martos Gallery (New York, NY), Ballroom Marfa (Marfa,
TX), ArtPapers (Atlanta, GA), and Music Box Village (New Orleans, LA), USA
- Signaling, group exhibition, KinoSaito, Verplanck, NY
- Deadass Dreams, solo exhibition, The Canary Test, Los Angeles, CA
2021
- Set It Off, solo exhibition, co-presented by ICA at Virginia Commonwealth University and 1708 Gallery, Richmond,
VA
- Berlin Atonal: Metabolic Rift, group exhibition, Kraftwerk, Berlin, Germany
- Looking At (Isn’t Just Looking), sound installation, for Wayfinding, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO
- Before The Body Is The Flesh, group exhibition, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY
- Of Things Unseen, group exhibition, Bard CCS, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
2020
- Inna, solo exhibition, Martos Gallery, New York, NY
- In Mono: with Nikita Gale and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, solo performance, Triple Canopy, New York, NY
- The Eagle And The Tortoise, composer + performer, National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY
- 9AM (Eternal), composition, for The Isolated Field Recording Series, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
- XXX-XXX-XXXX (Phone Piece), performance, Abrons Arts Center and Boston Center for the Arts
2019
- Forest Speech, performer, with Composer’s Inside Electronics, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- Get Low (Real Deep), sound installation, New Forms Festival, Vancouver, BC
- We Are Here, audio installation, with Claudia Rankine, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, and Helga Davis, The High Line,
New York, NY
- I Walk The Westside Line, performer, with Toshi Reagon, The High Line, New York, NY
2018
- Pendulum Music: An Arrangement for Four Performers and Geodesic Dome, 2018, arranger + performer, MoMA
PS1, Queens, NY
- Evil Nigger: A Five Part Performance for Julius Eastman, director + performer, with LaMont Hamilton, The Kitchen,
Brooklyn, NY
- Club, group exhibition, Performance Space New York, New York, NY
- Is God Is, sound designer, SoHo Rep, New York, NY
- Séancers, composer/sound designer + performer, with Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY
- Zero, composer/sound designer + performer, with Jonathan Gonzaléz, Danspace Project, New York NY
SELECT RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS
- 2024 Fellow, Triple Canopy, New York, NY
- 50th Anniversary Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
- Core Program Fellow, 2022, Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France
- Sound Artist-In-Residence, 2021, Bemis Center For Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
- Rauschenberg Residency 381, 2019, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, NY
- Artist-In-Residence, 2019, Counterpublics, The Luminary Arts, St. Louis, MO
- Artist-In-Residence, 2019 Jerome Foundation Airspace Residency, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY
- Artist-In-Residence, 2017, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
- Artist-In-Residence, Missed Guided Tour, curated by King Britt, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- Artist-In-Residence, ACE AIR, ACE Hotel, New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY & PUBLISHED
- “Two Artists Confront Erasure Along the Louisiana Coastline” by Andrea Andersson, Frieze, December 2024
- Break Stuff, exhibition catalogue, Other Plans, January 2024
- “Material Qualities of Sound: Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste Interviewed by Jareh Das,” Bomb, June 2022
- “In Conversation: Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste: Bass Is Touch,” Contemporary And, February 2022
- “A Conversation with Kathy Halbreich, David White, Rachel Harrison, and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste,” Robert
Rauschenberg Foundation’s A Conversation, September 2021
- “Get Lower, with Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste,” Triple Canopy’s Medium Rotation: Omniaudience, May 2021
- “Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste on Malevich’s ‘Black Square’ and The Limits Of Visibility,” Artforum, August 2020
-“Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste In Conversation”, Sound American, May 2019
- “What I’m Talking About When I Talk About Talking About Looking At Things,” What Is Shared, What Is Offered,
Chloe Bass (auth.), Independent Curators International, 2019
- Year In Review, “Music Top 10,” Artforum, December 2018
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
- Assistant Professor in Sculpture & Extended Media, ongoing since 2023, Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond, VA
- Visiting Assistant Professor in TIMARA, 2022-2023, Oberlin College & Conservatory, Oberlin, OH