Join us on June 3, 2025 at 7:00 pm for an online conversation in connection with Infinite Passage, a retrospective exhibition of work by Guyanese-born artist Carl E. Hazlewood at the Brattleboro Museum in Vermont. Hazlewood will be joined by curator Serubiri Moses and Rinaldo Walcott, chair of Africana studies at University of Buffalo SUNY and author of Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora, and Black Studies (2016). The exhibition title references the passage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic, as well as the landscapes and seascapes of Guyana. The exhibit includes 50 artworks—mixed-media painting, drawing, and installation. In several of the pieces, Hazlewood represents artmaking as life, relaying his journey from text-based language to visual vocabulary. Much of the work is rooted in movement—which, according to Hazlewood, is “an inescapable part of our existence.”
About the Artist:
Selected public collections include: Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; Art Omi International Art Center, Ghent, NY; The Francis J. Greenberger Collection, NY;
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NY; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; NY Borough of Manhattan Community College CUNY, NY; Department of the Treasury, State of NJ; Trenton New Jersey State Council on the Arts Trenton, NJ; State Legislative Buildings, Albany, NY; Gensler and Associates, Houston, Texas; Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, São Paulo, Brazil; The Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France; The Study Center, Bogliasco Foundation, Genoa, Italy; The National Collection of Fine Arts, Castellani House, Guyana, South America; and, University of Guyana, South America. Member: National Academy of Design and American Abstract Artists.
He serves as part-time faculty in Art History at Hunter College, CUNY, and visiting faculty at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. He previously held teaching positions at New York University and the New Centre for Research and Practice (DE/US), Dark Study (US), Digital Earth Fellowship (NL), and he has delivered lectures at Williams College, Yale University, University of Pittsburgh, The New School, and basis voor aktuelle kunst (NL), College of the Atlantic, and University of the Arts Helsinki (FL). As a curator, he has organized exhibitions at museums including MoMA PS1, Long Island City; Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; and the Hessel Museum, Bard College, NY. He previously held a research fellowship at the University of Bayreuth, received his MA in Curatorial Studies at Bard College, and is an alumni of the Àsìkò International Art Programme. He is Contributing Editor at e-flux journal, and his forthcoming book Judith Namala: A Novella is published by CARA.
