DEVIN T. MAYS

Collaborations and Bootlegs: 10 Years of F Magazine
July 13 – August 17, 2024, Josh Pazda Hiram Butler, Houston

A Horseshoe Over a Door
February 11 – March 31, 2024

Here, There, Weight
June 4, 2023

b. 1985, Detroit, MI
Lives in Houston and Chicago

EDUCATION
2016  MFA Studio Practice, The University of Chicago
2008  BBA International Business, Howard University, Washington DC

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024  A Horseshoe Over a Door, with Skylar Haskard, F, Houston
2023  Underneath Echoes, The Car Wash, Houston
          In-Practice: Devin T. Mays, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY
2022  OPEN, WEDGE Projects, Chicago
2021  An Offering of Things, Regards, Chicago
          Leave me letters and dust, with Luna Ghisetti, Apparatus Projects, Chicago
2020  Singles, Regards, with Catherine Sullivan, Chicago
2019  Things Become Things, Regards, Chicago
          An Orange Dragon, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago
2017  Everything is Everything, Regards, Chicago

PERFORMANCE
2024  Left, Right, Down, Up, The Renaissance Society, Chicago
2023  Here, There, Weight, F, Houston
          The Day I Met the Sun, The Moody Center or the Arts, Houston
          Test, Nameless Sound at the Lawndale Art Center, Houston
2022  The Day I Met the Sun, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2019  Impudence, Regards, Chicago
2018  Bulldogging, Regards, Chicago
2017  Mascot, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024  FRICTIONS, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria
          Collaborations and Bootlegs: 10 Years of F Magazine, Josh Pazda Hiram Butler, Houston
          2023 - 2024 Artists in Residence Exhibition, Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX
          Works By, Neubauer Collegium, University of Chicago
          Beverly Buchanan I Broke the House, gta exhibitions at ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
          The hill is getting lower. Or so it seems., Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany
2023  Lifecycle, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago
          Loving Forms, Julius Caesar, Chicago
          Chicago, Baader Meinhof, Omaha, NE
          Walk into a Bar, Regards, Chicago
          Women of the 20’s, Belmacz, London, England
          Reckless Rolodex, Gallery 400, Chicago
2022  Passing Through, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago
          Wheel of Life, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
2021  GMT, White Columns, online, New York
          Ab Lib Vitrine, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
          A Tale of Today, The Driehaus Museum, Chicago
2020  The Long Dream, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
          Another Idea: An actual conceptual art exhibition, The Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, Chicago
2018  Preview 8, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago
          Up Close Step Back Further, Studio 1469, Washington DC
2017  Dangerous Professors, Triumph Gallery, Chicago
          Four Saints in Three Acts, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago
2016  AND NO ONE FISH IN THE MIDDLE, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago
          Extant, Mana Contemporary, Chicago
          DandyLion (Re) Articulating Black Masculine Identity, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
          I am NOT tino seghal, Nahmad Projects, London, England

RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2023-2024  Galveston Artist Residency, Artist-in-Residence, Galveston, TX
2022  Rice University, CERCL Artist Fellowship, Visual and Dramatic Arts, Houston
          Ox-Bow School of Art Visiting Artist, Saugatuck, MI
          Wedge Projects, Artist-in-Residence, Chicago
2021  Radicle Studio, Artist-in-Residence, The Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
          Black Artist Consortium, Artist Fellowship, Northwestern University, Chicago
2020  A Tale of Today Emerging Artists, Fellowship, The Driehaus Museum, Chicago
2017  BOLT, Artist-in-Residence, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago
          The Rebuild Foundation, Fellow, Chicago

LECTURES AND SYMPOSIUMS
2024  In conversation, artists from On the Life Cycle of an Artist, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago
2023  Lin Hixson and Devin T. Mays in conversation, Regards, Chicago
          Sculpture Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Houston
          Barbara McCullough screening and conversation with Devin T. Mays, Rice University, Houston
          Center for African & African American Studies x Visual and Dramatic Art Department, Lecture, Rice University, Houston
2022  Aesthetics of Engagement, part of the Never Not in Crisis: Forms of Calamity in Catastrophic Times symposium, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
          Angela Chen & Devin T. Mays and Artist Talk, Basket Books and Art, Houston
          Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Painting & Drawing, Chicago
          Derrida Today Conference, Panelist, Washington DC
2021  In conversation with Theaster Gates and Caroline Kent, The Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, Chicago
          Visiting Artist, Department of Art & Art History, University of Illinois, Chicago
2020  Visiting Artist, School of Art and Art History, Illinois State University, Chicago
2019  In conversation with Solveig Nelson, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago
2018  In conversation with Martine Syms, The Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago
          HIRSHHORN AM: Tony Lewis, Devin T. Mays, Kellie Romany, Washington DC
2015  James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket, Moderator, The Black Cinema House, Chicago
          Making Mirrors: A look at the work of Issa Rae, Panelist, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, The University of Chicago
          Ulysses Jenkins in conversation with Pope.L and Devin T. Mays, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, The University of Chicago
2014  Visiting Artist, Department of Fine and Performing Art, Columbia College, Chicago

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024  Myers, Park. “Collaborations and Bootlegs: 10 Years of F Magazine,” Glasstire, August 18
          De Filippi, Ana. “An Ordinary Elevation Pours Out Absence: Skylar Haskard and Devin T. Mays at F,” Glasstire, March 23
          Editorial. “Skylar Haskard & Devin T. Mays at F,” émergent magazine, online, February
          Adams, Carris. "The Urgent and the Understated: Talking with Devin T. Mays," Glasstire, February 20
2023  Editorial. "Devin T. Mays: Underneath Echoes, Top 5 in Texas," Glasstire, December 21
          "'In-Practice: Devin T. Mays' at SculptureCenter, New York," Mousse Magazine, November 2
          Hyperallergic Fall 2023 Art Guide, "In-Practice: Devin T. Mays," Hyperallergic, September 1
2021  Estrela Beck, Sarah M. Critics’ Pick, "Luna Ghisetti and Devin T. Mays," Artforum, October 10
2020  Cardoza, Kerry. "Art50 2020: Chicago’s Artists’ Artists," NewCityArt, September 3
2017  Schutter, David. Interview with Devin T. Mays, Regards Chicago online, April
          "Top 5: Devin T. Mays, 'Everything is Everything,'" The Visualist, April