COLLEEN L COLEMAN
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MY RECIPE FOR CREATIVE PROCESS

1 pound of flesh and bone
1 pound of spirit
1 pound of psychic energy
1 pound of  respect and appreciation for my ancestors
1/2 cup of unearthing the hidden stories behind what we have been told is true
​1/2 cup longing for Home

1/2 cup of Archival Material
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Archival material, foraging, and provenance are strategically crucial to the creative process. An aged blend of seven girl ancestral voices that have time-traveler wisdom but stumble through this plane as child-like spirits A pinch of ideologies of traditional history, culture, and science a balance of Catholicism and Afro-Indigenous religions seasoned with Robert Farris Thompson’s work and the writings of bell hooks
In creating parafiction, I see myself as a catalyst for healing and drawing attention to significant Black navigators, both historical and ancestral. My performance drawings are cartographic, vibrational readings that interpret time and space. In all of my work, there is always the impulse to search for home and connectedness to the human experience.

BIO

 Colleen Coleman is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, activist, and educator working across drawing, collage, animation, performance, and installation. Born in Darlington, South Carolina, she holds a BA from Cambridge College and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited nationally in museums and university galleries, including the Benton Museum of Art, and is held in public and private collections.

Rooted in historical research, personal archives, and speculative storytelling, Coleman’s practice interrogates race, gender, class, and systems of power while centering healing, agency, and joy. Through digital and analog collage, she intertwines her own image with unnamed historical Black figures, using performance and installation to create immersive portals that collapse past, present, and future. Influenced by Surrealism and artists such as Fred Wilson, Howardena Pindell, and Adrian Piper, her work reimagines dominant narratives and proposes liberatory futures.
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Coleman is a recipient of two Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowships and has participated in national and international residencies, including Vermont Studio Center and Chautauqua Visual Arts. In 2025, she was selected as the invited Artist-in-Residence at the Art Crawl Harlem House on Governors Island. Her commitment to education and cultural exchange informs an expansive community-based practice grounded in storytelling, remembrance, and collective transformation.
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