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AINSLEY BURROWS
born in Kingston, Jamaica;
Lives and works in Baltimore, MD, and Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION & RESIDENCIES
2024 – FREEFORM-2, Baltimore Museum of Art, Lexington Market – Baltimore, MD
2024 – JJC AIR; by Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, and Joshua Johnson
Council – Baltimore, MD
2021 – FREEFORM-1, Bed-Stuy Art House – Brooklyn, NY
1996 – SUNY Oswego, B.A. – Oswego, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 – Bone, Smoke and Thunder, Quid Nunc Gallery – Baltimore, MD
2025 – A Magnetic Cluster of Suns, Indigo Hotel – Baltimore, MD
2024 – The Third Future: A Self-Portrait, World Trade Center – Baltimore, MD
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
2019 – The Maroons: Rebellion, Ainsley Burrows Open Studio – Brooklyn, NY
2016 – NeoChaos, 33 Lafayette – Brooklyn, NY
2013 – Red Series – New York, NY
2012 – Masking, Camaje – New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Upcoming – The Harper Museum – Detroit, MI
2025 – Baltimore to Boston: Neo Contemporary Art – Boston, MA
2024 – Washington Project for the Arts' Collectors' Night 2024 Benefit Auction – Washington, DC
2023 – B23, Artscape – Baltimore, MD
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
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
Raymond McGuire, private collection – New York, NY
Emily Scudder, private collection – Baltimore, MD
Tristan Jass, private collection – Kenosha, WI
Anthony Spikes, private collection – Denver, CO
Capital One Collection
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
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
PUBLISHED WRITTEN WORKS
Set to publish in 2024 – Escorian Vein, Novel
Set to publish in 2024 – 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
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
"Ainsley Burrows' work is a vibrant force that transcends every dimension of life. His brushstrokes dance, teach, and soothe; collectively invoking an authentic spirit of wonder. Ainsley is a modern day creative genius, one who later generations will seek to emulate."
— Vivian K. Tozaki, Esq.