Perla Mabel 

Platano.haus           platanohaus@gmail.com

Education - BFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University

Residencies/Experience

Community Arts Initiative , MFA, Bos 2022

Converging Liberations x Mass Moca Residency 2021

Boston Arts Academy x Rhinoceros Womxn, Artist in residence, 2021

MFA Artist Take Over, 2020

#PLATANOGIRLS, POC Empowerment movement

Vermont Studio Center Residency, July, 2019

Paint Me, self ran program, Roxbury Preparatory Charter School, 2015

Artist Proof Studio, South Africa, 2013

The Urbano Project, Boston, 2013

Curatorial  

ASHE, Group Exhibition, SMFA at Tufts 2020

Color for Color, self ran program, Boston Arts Academy, 2017

Exhibitions

Communal Medicine: Tending Abundance, LaiSun Keane Gallery, SOWA, 2022 

Empowered Faces, CAI Installation, MFA, Bos, 2022

Vernacular Glamor, Cambridge Arts Association, 2022

Art Reception for The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity, Lab Central, 2021

Student Juried Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Bos, 2019

26th Annual Drawing show, Mills Gallery, Bos, 2019

Liminal Space, Thesis Exhibition,  Grossman Gallery, SMFA, Bos, 2019

Black Lit, SMFA, Bos, 2019

Operation and Still We Rise, Bos, 2019

Today We Said, Proof Gallery, Bos, 2018

Room to Speak, Bos, 2018

Women’s Day Multimedia, Holy Cross College, Worcester, 2018

Women’s Day Multimedia, Bos, 2018 

Year End Show, Juried Exhibition, Anderson Gallery, Bos 2018

Color for Color, Gordon Gallery, Bos, 2017

Boston Emerging Artist, Juried Exhibition, Bos City Council, 2016

Print and Paper Juried Exhibition, Bos, 2016

Modus Operandi, Paris, France, 2016

There’s Never Any Paint, Gordon Gallery, Bos 2015

Maps of the Past, Faces of the Future, The Urbano Project,  2014

Emancipated City, The Urbano Project, 2014

Passion with Balance, Gordon Gallery, Bos  2014 

Performances

Black and Proud, Highline, NYC, 2019

Black Lives Matter Artist purpose, Vermont Studio Center, 2019

Raices Ritual, MFA, Boston, 2019

Reverence Ritual, Digital Performance, 2020

Digital Soup x Boston CyberArts Virtual Performance, 2020 

Scholarships/Awards 

St. Botolph Emerging Artist Award, 2021 

NEFA Public Art Grant, 2021

Collective Futures Fund, 2021

Dean’s Research Award, Tufts Uni., 2019

Dana Pond Award, 2019

Springborn Fellowship, 2018

Artist Proof Studio, South Africa in 2013

BAA & SMFA Half Tuition Scholarship, 2015

Rollins Griffin Scholarship, 2015

Artist Proof Studio, South Africa, 2013

Publications 

“In the Artist’s Studio,” Jumbo Magazine, print, Fall 2018.

https://issuu.com/tuftsadmissions/docs/jumbo_fall18__1_/16

“Revel in Black Excellence,” Issue 06, Boston Art Review, print, 2021.https://bostonartreview.bigcartel.com/product/issue-06-timestamp