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Shervone Neckles is an interdisciplinary artist who uses repurposed materials and Afro-Caribbean sensibilities to retell histories and mythologies. By embellishing textiles, assemblage, printmaking, sculpture, and installation, Neckles connects the sacred and scientific, the past and the present, and life with the afterlife. Her multimedia installation—an examination of selfhood and memory—was featured in the 2019 Venice Biennale’s Grenada Pavilion.

Neckles has also participated in residencies internationally including the Youlou Arts Foundation in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, WI; Dieu Donné Workspace Residency, NY; Wave Hill, NY; Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, FL; The Elizabeth Foundation SHIFT Program, NY; The Center for Book Arts, NY; The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME, among others. Previous awards include grants from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Queens Council on the Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Art, Puffin Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation, and fellowships from Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and Manhattan Graphic Center. Her work has been written about in publications including Artnet, Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, EBONY, Hyperallergic, Huffington Post, and New York Times.

Neckles recently created an outdoor installation at the Lewis H. Latimer House Museum (Flushing, Queens) to commemorate the life and legacy of the African-American inventor, which has traveled to Downtown Brooklyn (NY) and Museum of Science (Boston, MA). In 2022-2023, her work was presented in a solo exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art (Jacksonville, FL), group exhibition at Johnson Lowe Gallery (Atlanta, GA)and she debuted a permanent public art installation, The Lunar Portal, at the University of Pittsburgh Mercy Pavilion Plaza (Pittsburgh, PA). In 2024, she has a forthcoming public art installation with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in Bronx, NY.