Sedrick Chisom
About
Sedrick Chisom is a painter and writer born in 1989 in Philadelphia, PA, who lives and works in New York, with past residences in Bloomington, IN, and Brooklyn, NY. His practice explores romantic landscapes transformed into apocalyptic, hallucinatory wastelands where themes of white supremacy, Christianity, climate change, toxicity, mutation, and ethnic narratives intersect. Drawing from fin-de-siècle painters like Munch, Redon, Gauguin, and illustrators such as Edmund Dulac and Arthur Rackham, Chisom constructs future-historicist tales of racial tensions, purity obsessions, and bodily transformations through abstract figuration using oils, acrylics, GAC polymers, and charcoal drawings.
Afro-Surrealist abstract figuration in apocalyptic romantic landscapes
Selected Exhibitions
- The Villain of History for One Night Alone, Pilar Corrias, London (2024)
- …And 108 Prayers of Evil, CLEARING, New York (2024)
- Angels to Some, Demons to Others, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2022)
- PROGRAM, Matthew Brown, New York (2024)
- Manic Pixie Nightmare Drawings, Adler Beatty, New York (2024)
Awards
- Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation Award For Exceptional Ability (2016)
- VCU Fountainhead Fellowship in Painting and Drawing (2018-2019)