100m art studio

Recovering The Past | Securing The Present | Expecting The Future

About

MEET
TIFFANY
LAWSON

My art is created from items and images that are at hand and previous drawings collected over time. The practice of collecting and rearranging material acts as an archival process that recovers the past, secures the present and expects the future. Anchored in my spirituality, culture, and womanhood I use songs, lyrics, and scripture as mechanisms to create my work. Utilizing multiple disciplines, I create collages and assemblages that explore form and color, unified by the spirit of Black life. The use of collage symbolizes the Black experience and involves and demands the ability to “use what you got”. The spirit of Black life adapts to the most brutal conditions, making beauty, holding sacred, celebrating resilience. I create value-based work: love, joy, peace, comfort, grace, and mercy, with heavy doses of resistance and empowerment.

I am inspired by the rich Black local art tapestry. Artists such as Aminah Robinson, Grandpa Smoky Brown, Queen Brooks and Richard Duarte Brown, as well as: Picasso, Gustav Klimt, Betye Saar, Howardena Pindell, and Faith Ringgold. I use their works as reference and research. I believe in imagination and innovation. Adapting the principles and aesthetics of Sankofa and Wabi Sabi allow me to flow between tradition and innovation.

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Reciprocal Member, Columbus Museum of Art

Associate Member, Ohio Art League

Ohio Online Visual Artist Registry, https://oac.ohio.gov/programs-and-services/ohio-artist-registry

ArtMakesColumbus, https://www.columbusmakesart.com/artist/7142-tiffany-lawson

Present- Artist in Resident, Streetlight Guild

2025 934 Gallery at John Glenn International Airport, Inner Compass

Ohio State University Faculty Club, A Seat at the Table

2024 Callaloo Literary Journal, Black Appalachia Part 1, Vol. 42

Columbus Metropolitan Library, Book Festival (poetry)

2023 Streetlight Guild-CONTEMPORARY COLOURED: DELUXE (solo with events)

These 3 Things, Bus Stop Bop: A Musical Rendering, Sterling Speaks of Words; https://streetlightguild902558154.wordpress.com/

-Artist in Residence Streetlight Guild

Brooklyn Watershed Artists Coalition - RECYCLE

Columbus Metropolitan Library- Sesquicentennial

Ohio State University, Urban Arts Space Irrepressible Soul

Priscilla R. Tyson Columbus Cultural Arts Center-Water is Life

All People Arts- Earthtones

2022 ( March-April) Ohio State Faculty Club CONTEMPORARY COLOURED - (solo)

Streetlight Guild - Installation, Around the Way, USA

Sean Christopher Gallery CONTEMPORARY COLOURED : THE REDUX (solo)

Streetlight Guild - Art Market

2021 934 Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

Resilience in Nature Franklin Park Conservatory,

Artist in Residence, Columbus Cultural Arts Center Columbus, Ohio

QUEEN LATIFAH SAID MISTER ROGERS? (solo) Loft Gallery, Columbus Cultural Arts Center

Ekphrastic Fantastic, Columbus, Cultural Arts Center
Resilience in Nature Franklin Park Conservatory
Hit the Hop, Studios on High Gallery, Columbus, OH
PACKED, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, OH
Every Story Told, All People Arts Gallery, Columbus, OH

2020 Fall Juried Virtual Exhibition Ohio Art League

2019 RECYCLE 2019 Brooklyn Watershed Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY

2018 OH+5 11th Biennial Exhibition Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH
Intolerance as Violence, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
Spring Juried Exhibition Ohio Art League, Griffin Gallery, Gahanna, OH
Inside & Out: Vanitas, Ohio Art League, Griffin Gallery, Gahanna OH
Art for Life, Columbus Museum of Art
Fall Juried Exhibition Ohio Art League, Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus, OH
Thumb Box Exhibition Ohio Art League

2017 Sight of Music Columbus Cultural Arts Center

2014-2017 Resident Artist, Millworks Studios, Columbus, OH

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