DANIELLE DEADWYLER actor/performance artist/filmmaker
EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS
2013 WonderRoot, Local Film Night, Do Not Resuscitate video
2014 If We Came From Nowhere Here, Why Can’t We Go Somewhere There?, Vivid Solutions Gallery, Washington, D.C., Mambu Badu Collective
2014 Leap Year Applicant Exhibition, Mint Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2014 Company XX, Mammal Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2015 LadyFest Atlanta, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA
2015 Somebody Else’s Problem, Short Shorts Video Festival, Failure to Appear, Whitespace Gallery
2015 WonderRoot Local Film Night, MuhfuckaNeva(Luvd)Uhs
2015 Femlanta, New Mavericks series, Atlanta Film Festival
2015 Sporadic Democracy, The Luminary, St. Louis, MO
2015 Make Making Work, Work, Mint, Atlanta, GA
2016 Airport Shorts 3.0, Hartsfield International Airport, Atlanta Film Society
2016 Sybil, 368 Ponce, Atlanta, GA
2016 Quincunx, Little Five Arts Alive, 7 Stages Theatre, Atlanta, GA
2017 You are Welcome, You’re Welcome, MINT Gallery (Hive at Hambidge/Colony Square), Atlanta, GA
2017 Rent was due on the 5th, ALTERED MEANS, Atlanta, GA
2018 Movement Love, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2018 Living the Legacy II mural, Living Melody Collective, Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA
2018 Selfie: Identity at Arm’s Length, Still Point Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2019 Notions of Saintly Flesh, Living Melody Collective, Tempus Project Space, Tampa, FL
2019 EngageMINT, Mint Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2019 High Rise, The Goat Farm, Mint Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2020 Mint Gallery, Leap Year Group Exhibition, Atlanta, GA
2020 CHOR(E)S, Atlanta Film Festival, Atlanta, GA
2020 CHOR(E)S, New Orleans Film Festival, JURY AWARD WINNER, New Orleans, LA
2020 CHOR(E)S, Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC
2021 CHOR(E)S, Oxford Film Festival, Oxford, MS
2021 bustitOpen, Atlanta Film Festival, GEORGIA FILM AWARD WINNER, Atlanta, GA
2021 Eyeshadow, Essex Flowers, New York, NY
2021 MINT Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Atlanta, GA
2021 Atlanta Biennial, Virtual Remains, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2021 CUE Art Foundation, Object Subject, Solo Exhibition, New York, NY
2022 VAMA Gallery Exhibit, MESS, Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Johnson Lowe Gallery, The Alchemists, Atlanta, GA
PERFORMANCE
2013 dispossessed: the live mixtape, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Black Box Series, Atlanta, GA
2015 MuhfuckaNeva(Luvd)Uhs: Real Live Girl (MNLUi), live performance, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA
2015 Blood, Milk, Fire, Body Tracks, Mammal Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2016 RE/Track, Love/d & Sex/ed, Mammal Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2016 MuhfuckaNeva(Luvd)Uhs: Real Live Girl (MNLUii), ELEVATE Atlanta, City of Atlanta/Office of Cultural Affairs, Atlanta, GA
2017 BUSTitOPEN, Living Walls Inaugural Laura Patricia Calle Grant Performance, Atlanta, GA
2018 The Ood: A Field Guide to Apocalyptic Worlds, Synchronicity Theatre Stripped Bare Lab 2017-18, Atlanta, GA
HONORS/AWARDS/GRANTS
2009 Suzi Bass Award, Best Ensemble, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre
2011 Semi-Finalist, Creative Loafing 1st Annual Atlanta Shorts Contest, Brummagem
2013 Creative Loafing, Best of Atlanta Critic’s Pick, Best Actress
2014 American Black Film Festival Official Selection, Ir/Reconcilable (Producer/Talent), HBO Shorts Competition, (finalist)
2015 Suzi Bass Award, Best Leading Actress, The C.A. Lyons Project, The Alliance Theatre
2015 Suzi Bass Award, Best Ensemble, Clybourne Park, Aurora Theatre
2015 Jury Award, WonderRoot Local Film Night, MuhfuckaNeva(Luvd)Uhs video
2016 Living Walls, Inaugural Laura Patricia Calle Inaugural Grant Recipient, Atlanta, GA
2016 ELEVATE Atlanta, Grant/Performance recipient, Atlanta, GA
2017-18 WonderRoot Walthall Artist Fellowship, Atlanta, GA
2017- Atlanta Film Festival, Filmmaker-in-Residence
2014-15, 2017-18 IDEA CAPITAL Grant Recipient
2017 Creative Loafing, Best of Atlanta Reader’s Pick, Best Performance Artist
2017-18 Synchronicity Theatre Stripped Bare Lab Recipient
2018 Hambidge Creative Arts and Sciences Residency, Distinguished Fellow, Rabun Gap, GA
2018-19 MINT Gallery Leap Year Resident Awardee, Atlanta, GA
2018 Artadia Atlanta Awards Finalist
2018 40 Under 40 Spelman College, Spelman Messenger Magazine
2019 Tempus Projects Residency, Living Melody Collective, Tampa, FL
2019 Dream Warriors Foundation Grant recipient, Atlanta, GA
2019 Artadia Atlanta Finalist, Winner
2020 Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs Contracts for Arts Services, Atlanta, GA Award Winner
2020 Black Spatial Relics Residency/Grant Recipient
2020 Franklin Furnace Grant Recipient
EDUCATION
M.F.A., Creative Writing/Poetry, Ashland University, Ashland, OH
M.A., American Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, Honor Roll, Columbia University in the City of New York
B.A., History, Phi Alpha Theta Society, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
International Human Rights Exchange, University of Natal & University of Durban- Westville, Durban, South Africa
Long Ridge Writers Group, Non-fiction Writing Focus, West Redding, CT