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