Carl E. Hazlewood's Page

Carl E. Hazlewood, born in Guyana, South America, has been an exhibiting artist since childhood. A nominee for the 2010 Joan Mitchell Foundation award, his work is in private and public collections internationally, including: the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Louisiana; the Guyana National Collection, Georgetown, Guyana; Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, São Paulo, Brasil.

Carl is also a writer and curator currently living in Brooklyn, NY. The co-founder of Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ., he has taught at New Jersey City University and other institutions. Currently associate editor for Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, (Duke University) he has written for many other periodicals, including Flash Art International, ART PAPERS Magazine, and NY Arts Magazine.

Since 1984 he has organized numerous curatorial projects for Aljira such as ’Modern Life’ (co-curated with Okwui Enwezor). Hazlewood’s project on behalf of Aljira, ‘Current Identities, Recent Painting in the United States,’ was the US prize-winning representation at the ‘Bienal International de Pintura,’ Cuenca, Ecuador 1994. As an Independent curator he has organized exhibitions for The Nathan Cummings Foundation, NY; Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Hallwalls, NY; Artists Space, NY; P.S.122, NY, among other venues.