AINSLEY BURROWS

AINSLEY BURROWS 

born in Kingston, Jamaica; 

Lives and works in Baltimore, MD, and Brooklyn, NY

 

EDUCATION

1996 – SUNY Oswego – Oswego, NY

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 – Displacement, The DC Arts Center – Washington, DC

2023 – Raktism & Meta Chaos, Creative Alliance – Baltimore, MD

2022 – Astonishing The Gods, Rush Arts – Philadelphia, PA

2022 – Marley Mixtape, KIRPA Auction House – Online Auction

2022 – Select works from The Maroons: Rebellion, SUNY Oneonta – Oneonta, NY

2022 – The Originals, Original Tee Golf Classic – Hamburg, NJ

2021 – FREEFORM-1, Bed-Stuy Art House – Brooklyn, NY

2019 – The Maroons: Rebellion, Ainsley Burrows Open Studio – Brooklyn, NY

2016 – NeoChaos, 33 Lafayette – Brooklyn, NY

2013 – Red Series – New York, NY

2012 – The Paintings of Ainsley Burrows, Akwa – Brooklyn, NY

2012 – Masking, Camaje – New York, NY

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Upcoming – The Harper Museum – Detroit, MI

2023 – Washington Project for the Arts' Collectors' Night 2023 Benefit Auction – Washington, DC

2022 –  If You're Here, You Belong, 11:Eleven Gallery – Washington, DC

2022 – A Journey Not Long Forgotten, Arlington Arts Center – Arlington, VA

2022 – Unveiling Resistance, Community College of Baltimore County – Essex, MD

2022 – Summer Invitational, Spillman | Blackwell – New Orleans, LA

2022 – Art x Social Justice, The Fearless Artist Pop UP – New York, NY

2021 – Good Neighbors, Amos Eno Gallery – Brooklyn NY

2013 – Black History Month Art Show, Brookhaven National Laboratory – Upton, NY

2012 – Ascension, 3rd Eye Sol-lation Gallery – Brooklyn, NY

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SELECTED PERFORMANCES

2013 – Verses & Flow, TV One (TV Series)

2008 – BET Lyric Cafe 2008, BET (TV Series)

2007 – Augsburg Brecht Connected (ABC) Festival – Augsburg, Germany

2007 – Annual guerilla poetry tour, Babylon by Foot, was taken international

2001 – Performed with Nuyorican National Slam Team – New York, NY and Princeton, NJ

1999 – Inaugural national Babylon by Foot guerilla poetry tour

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SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Hill Harper, private collection – Detroit, MI

Jeffrey Wright, private collection – Brooklyn, NY 

Wayee Chu, private collection – San Francisco, CA

Lisane Basquiat, private collection – San Diego, CA

Jeanine and Herve Heriveaux, private collection – Maplewood, NJ

Andre Perry, private collection – Oxon Hill, MD

Raymond McGuire, private collection – New York, NY 

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OTHER PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

2020 – Wrote, performed and produced poetry/music mixtape Young Vader

2016 – Wrote, performed, and produced poetry/music album NeoChaos

2011 – Wrote, performed and produced poetry/music album Empire

2008-2009 – Poetry Performance Workshops, Lecturer, The Juilliard School, New York, NY

2008 – Guinness commercial collaboration, aired in 26 Caribbean countries

2008 – Wrote, performed and produced poetry/music album Evolver

2007 – Wrote, performed and produced poetry/music album Rockstar

2006 – Founded The Sweet Spot, a burlesque variety show stage production

2004-2005 – Coached Nuyorican National Slam Team

2003 – Wrote, performed and produced poetry/music album Climax

2001 – Wrote, performed and produced poetry/music album The Groove Electric

2000 – Wrote, performed and produced poetry/music album Cataclysm

1999 – Founded BurrowsInk, a multimedia production company

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PUBLISHED WORKS

Set to publish in 2023 – Escorian Vein, Novel

Set to publish in 2023 – Children Carrying The Sky, Novel

2018 – Sex Addiction, the sequel to Bang Bang Bang, Novel

2017 – The Spellcaster’s Manual, Poetry Collection

2013 – Bang Bang Bang: A Summer Of Sin In Brooklyn, Novel

2008 – The Wolf Who Cried Boy (UK), Poetry Collection

2005 – Black Angels With Sky Blue Feathers (UK), Poetry Collection

2005 – Street Pigeons (UK), Photography and Poetry Collection

2000 – The Woman Who Isn’t Was, Poetry Collection

1999 – Black Angels With Sky Blue Feathers, Poetry Collection

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AWARDS

2004 – Nuyorican Poets Café Award for Coaching – New York, NY

2002 – Best International Performer of 2002, Farrago Poetry Café – London, UK

2001 – Nuyorican Poets Café Award for Participation – New York, NY

2001 – International Poetry Slam Championship – Munich, Germany

2001 – Best International Performer of 2001, Farrago Poetry Café – London, UK

 

SELECTED PRESS

BK Stories, “The Sweet Spot,” BRIC, February 13, 2020.

Karu F. Daniels, “Inside ‘The Sweet Spot’: Burlesque Group Celebrates Black Erotica,” NBC News, November 4, 2017. 

Glamazon Tyomi, “Black Burlesque Goes Big Time at The Sweet Spot,” Ebony, November 26, 2015.

Ennoc, “Ainsley Burrows Takes Center Stage,” Big Up Radio, March 8, 2008.

Krista Henry, “Guinness poet ‘burrows’ into the word.” Jamaica Gleaner, November 23, 2008. View commercial.