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EDUCATION
Masters of Arts in Teaching: Art Education, 2013-2014
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting, 2009-2013
Pace University, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Celebrating CEF, Scollay Square Gallery, Boston, MA
Communal Gifts, Discovery Museum, Acton, MA
Painting &, Boston University Gallery, Boston, MA
2023 Be the Change, Boston, MA
2021 Black Matter, Harvard University’s Black in Design Conference 2021
IN PLACE: A Return, UMass University Hall Gallery, Boston, MA
Tacit fact…small & mighty, Beacon Street Gallery, Brookline, MA
Between Wind & Water, Black Market, Roxbury, MA
ESSENCE: In Celebration of Juneteenth, 13Forest Gallery, Arlington, MA
The Answer, Billboard Hope, Roxbury, MA
Patterns of Greatness, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
ACCESS: Art, Redbull Arts X Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
The Black Family-Representation, Identity & Diversity, Gallery 1832, Cambridge, MA
2020 Toques de Sabor, Mural commissioned by Elevated Thought, Lawrence, MA
Warm & Fuzzy Feels, Boston Children’s Museum, Boston, MA
Into The Wild, Dorchester Art Project, Boston, MA
2019 Field Notes: Lovers, Teachers and the Consciousness in Between, The Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
BOSTOWN Music Festival, Darryl’s Corner Bar & Grill, Roxbury, MA
BEAMING, Dudley Cafe, Roxbury, MA
The deCordova New England Biennial 2019, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
ENIGMA: Reactions to Racism, Urbano Project, Jamaica Plain, MA
Not Just Us: Women Artist Speak Out for Social Justice, The Dana Hall School, Wellesley, MA
2018 Nine Moments for Now, The Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Cambridge, MA
Mariposas & Mangos, Hyde Square Task Force, Boston, MA
More Than A Riot, Arnold Worldwide, Boston, MA
Juneteenth 2018, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
The Family Room, American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, MA
Cambridge Art Association's National Prize Show, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Black Woman Is God, Black Market, Roxbury, MA
Atizan Ayitian: Celebrating Haitian Heritage, BNN Art Gallery, Dorchester, MA
Red, White & Blue, Brookline Art Center, Brookline, MA
#SayHerName: Watch Us Werk, VanderNoot Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2017 READERS, Boston Art Book Fair, Boston, MA
Thrive, The Beehive, Boston, MA
Emerging, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA
ArtFocus at New England Bio Labs, Ipswitch, MA
STAND UP: Women You Should Know, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
Our Mattapan Campaign: Faces of Mattapan, Mattapan, MA
EMERGENCE, Franklin Square Park, Boston, MA
2016 Worthy: A community beautifcation project for Grove Hall, Boston,MA
The Public Trust: An interactive public art piece, Boston, MA
EMERGENCE, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Discover Roxbury’s Black & White Party, Roxbury, MA
Violence Transformed, Resinkoff Gallery, Boston, MA
2015 READERS, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
TEXTURES, Haley House Bakery Cafe, Roxbury, MA
Everybody Gon’ Respect the Shooter, Godine Family Gallery, Boston, MA
Roxbury Rhapsody, Bruce C Boiling Municipal Building, Roxbury, MA
READERS, Mobius Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Violence Transformed, Resinkoff Gallery, Boston, MA
2014 8 Artists, Arnheim Gallery, Boston, MA
Violence Transformed, Resinkoff Gallery, Boston, MA
Fusion: An Academic Compass Art Exhibit, Brant Gallery, Boston, MA
Saturday Studios Spring 14’ Exhibition, Arnheim Gallery, Boston, MA
2013 Sharing Our Stories: Never Far From Home, Prime Realty, Boston, MA
Blurred Vision, Peter Fingesten Gallery, New York, NY
PRESENTATIONS & AWARDS
2022 Boston Ujima Grant Recipient
2021 The Boston Foundation Brother Thomas Fellowship Recipient
Keynote for the Massachusetts Art Education Association Conference 2021
Presenter for Portraits & Pajamas Revisited with UMass Boston’s University Hall Gallery
Fact, Fiction, and Fiber Public Program with the Decordova Museum
Conversation Club Art Lecture with Harvard University’s Cooper Gallery
Willed by Wit and Wisdom with Twenty Summers
2020 Women in Community Arts Samantha Sadd 2020 Honoree
Red Bull Arts Microgrant Recipient
Featured Artist for Museum of Fine Arts #ArtistTakeover
Featured Panelist for WGBH’s BostonTalks: Virtual Creativity
Featured Panelist for Now + There Talks: What does Roxbury need now?
CICADA Art at a Distance Grant Recipient
Boston Artist Relief Grant Recipient
New England Foundation of the Arts Creative Capacity Grant Recipient
2019 2020 Cohort of The Arts & Business Council’s Creative Entrepreneur Fellowship, Boston, MA
WBUR’s ARTery25 Millennials Of Color Impacting Boston Arts And Culture, Boston, MA
2018 Featured Panelist for The City Talks: MLK Jr. at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Featured Panelist at Harvard's Black Portraiture Conference, Cambridge, MA
Featured Panelist for Radical Women's Night Out at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2017 Workshop Presenter at New England Bio Labs, Ipswitch, MA
Visiting Artist Lecture at Arlington High School, Arlington, MA
Workshop Presenter for Lesley University’s Cultural Democracy Seminar, Boston, MA
The Living Room, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
Panel Speaker for Public Trust Book Launch, District Hall, Boston, MA
2016 Engaging Students with Contemporary Art Presenter, M.A.E.A. Conference at Lesley University
Public Art Panelist, Fenway’s Cultural Capital Artventure Tour, Americans for the Arts Conference
Review Critic for Graduate Thesis Presentations, Massachusetts College of Art & Design
2015 Art & Civic Engagement Presenter, Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design Conference
MassArt Graduate Book Award for Excellence in Art Education
Workshop Presenter for Driscoll School’s Art Equinox Festival
2014 Best Practices for Diversity in Higher Ed, Bridgewater State’s Leading For Change Conference
Panel Speaker for The Adderley Lecture Series: Winfred Rembert
Member of Social Justice Task Force for review of MassArt’s Strategic Plan
Community Based Leadership Training, The Center For Art & Community Partnerships
2013 Pace University Trustee Recognition Award for Academic Excellence
Pace University Medal for Outstanding Artist
Pace University President’s Award for Writing
PUBLIC PROJECTS, COMMISSIONS & RESIDENCIES
2024. Discovery Museum Artist in Residence, Acton, MA
2022 Antenna Spillways Artist in Residence, New Orleans, LA
Surf Point Foundation Artist in Residence, York, ME
Evergreen portrait of Katherine Johnson, Google, Cambridge, MA
2021 Arlington Public Artist In Residence, Arlington, MA
Nubian Square Murals, Black Market, Roxbury, MA
Artist in Residence at The Elliot School of Fine Arts, Jamaica Plain, MA
Twenty Summers Artist Residency, Provincetown, MA
2020 The Museum of Fine Arts Artist Project: Patterns of Greatness, Boston, MA
STL GLD’s Spectrum, Google, Cambridge, MA
The Museum of Fine Arts Translation Project, Boston, MA
The 2020 Public Space Invitational, Boston, MA
MassMOCA Artist Residency, North Adams, MA
Community Collaborator for Boston’s Apollo, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
2019 Live action arts segment with PBS Kids for Pinkalicious & Peterrific: Pink Love, Duocron, S1 E24
Urbano Project’s 2019 Artist in Residence, Jamaica Plain, MA
2018 Hyde Square Task Force Artist in Residence, Boston, MA
Adorned in Patterns Workshop for Juneteenth 2018, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Guest Instructor for Drawing Together, Bakalar & Paine Gallery, Boston, MA
Visiting Artist at Boston Children's Museum, Boston, MA
2017 Big, Red, & Shiny's Inside/Out Digital Artist Residency
Affirmation Station, Boston, MA
Our Mattapan Campaign: Faces of Mattapan, Mattapan, MA
2016 Public Artist in Residence, Boston Center for the Arts Boston, MA
Worthy: A community beautification project for Grove Hall, Boston, MA
The Public Trust: An interactive public art piece about truth and trust, Boston, MA
2015 Roxbury Rhapsody, Bruce C Bolling Municipal Building, Roxbury, MA
2014 Race on Campus: An interactive art piece about racial bias at MassArt, Boston, MA
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Boston Art Review, “Face to Face: Napoleon Jones-Henderson & Chanel Thervil”, 6/2022
UMass Boston News, “Local Artists Talk Mental Health, Self-Care at University Hall Gallery”, 10/2021
The Provincetown Independent, “Thervil Looks at How Creatives of Color Cope”, 5/2021
The Museum of Fine Arts Blog, “Where Art Goes Feelings Follow”, 5/2021
The Boston Globe, “Around Boston, A Tide of Art to Comfort and Calm”, 2/2021
Boston Center for The Arts, “IN TALKS: Chanel Thervil”, 2/2021
The Harvard Gazette, “In Painting Others Black Artists Discover a Picture of Self-Care”, 10/2020
The Boston Herald, “Chanel Thervil Stretches Art World Canvas for People of Color”, 7/2020
The ARTery at WBUR, “'This Is Just The Beginning': Roxbury Artists Paint Black Lives Matter Mural In Nubian Square”, 7/2020
The Boston Globe, 500-foot “‘Black Lives Matter’ street mural painted in Nubian Square”, 7/2020
The Bay State Banner, “Boston’s Arts Community Celebrates Juneteenth”, 6/2020
The Art Newspaper, “Projects Celebrating Juneteenth in the US”, 6/2020
The ARTery at WBUR, “10 Visual Art Installations in Boston that made us think in 2019”, 12/2019
The Boston Globe, “Artists draw from teachers, lovers, and the past for annual BCA show”, 12/2019
The Bay State Banner, “Powerful Drawing Show Debuts at the BCA’s Mills Gallery”, 11/2019
WGBH Open Studio with Jared Bowen, Interview 4/2019
The Boston Globe, “In ‘Enigma,’ reactions to racism make for a vibrant, sobering show”, 3/2019
The BU News, “Illusions and Twisted Truths in ENIGMA...”, 3/2019
The Bay State Banner, “Face to Face with Race”, 2/2019
The ARTery at WBUR, “Side Eyes And Grimaces: Chanel Thervil's 'Enigma'...”, 2/2019
digBoston, “Interview with Chanel Thervil”, 2/2019
ARTFIXDaily, “Chanel Thervil's ENIGMA…”, 2/2019
Hyperallergic, “BEST of 2018: Top Exhibitions Across the US”, 12/2018
The ARTery at WBUR, “Boston Artists Use Mangos And Mariposas To Address Anti-Blackness…”, 10/2018
Medium.com, "#Juneteenth 2018 Was a Night of Celebrating Blackness", 6/2018
Now + There Journal, "Art as the Mediator for Evolving Communities", 5/2018
Hood Grown Aesthetic Podcast, "Episode 9 : Waxing Gibbous", 12/2017
Hyperallergic, "Best of 2017: Top Exhibitions Across the US", 12/2017
The Boston Globe, "Take a look at this eye-popping art the city has put in the Grove Hall area", 11/2017
Big, Red & Shiny, “Inside/Out: Chanel Thervil | Visual Articulations of Joy”, 11/2017
Big, Red & Shiny, “Inside/Out: Chanel Thervil | Visual Articulations of Pain”, 9/2017
Accordion, “Gatekeepers”, Issue 3, zine; print publication 7/2017
Big, Red & Shiny, “Then, Now & Beyond: Reflections of Radical Black Womanhood…”, 6/2017
CityLine’s “Art Bingo! With the Art Connection” Segment One on ABC/WCVB- Channel 5, 4/2017
National Art Education Association Journal, “Hopeful and Honest:... Blog to Empower”, 2/2017
Big, Red & Shiny, “ISSUES OF POWER: Resilience and Healing”, 2/2017
South End News, “EMERGENCE”, 12/2016
The Boston Guardian, “A New Hope In Franklin Square”, 9/2016
CityLine’s “Fall Into Art” Segment One on ABC/WCVB- Channel 5, 9/2016
Big, Red & Shiny, “ISSUES OF POWER: The Space Between Ignorance & Acknowledgement”, 9/2016
Boston Magazine, “BCA Welcomes New Hope Tree Sculpture by Chanel Thervil”, 7/2016