Yanique Norman
Part-time Instructor Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design- Biography
Yanique Norman was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica and moved to Brooklyn with her family at the age of 12. She moved to Atlanta in 2005 where she received her BFA from Georgia State University, In 2018, she received her MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was a 2020 recipient of the Artadia award. Her work has been exhibited at the High Museum of Art, Hammonds House Museum, Zuckerman Museum, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, and the Albany Museum of Art.
Recently, her work has taken the form of monumental sculptural collage that mutates out from found historical photographs. She often repeats the same photograph over and over creating a daisy chain of copies that can sometimes appear like tentacles or clouds or fins. These works explore themes of alienation and Black embodiment within a framework of “Black fungibility.”