Damon Locks is a Chicago-based visual artist, educator, vocalist/musician. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago where he received his BFA in fine arts. Since 2014 he has been working with Prisons and Neighborhood Arts Project at Stateville Correctional Center teaching art. He is a recipient of the Helen Coburn Meier and Tim Meier Achievement Award in the Arts and the 2016 MAKER Grant. He operated as an Artist Mentor in the Chicago Artist Coalition program FIELD/WORK. In 2017 he became a Soros Justice Media Fellow. In 2019, he became a 3Arts Awardee. Currently he works as an artist in residence as a part of the Museum of Contemporary Arts’ SPACE Program, introducing civically engaged art into the curriculum at the high school, Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy. Damon leads a group titled Black Monument Ensemble and is a founding member of the ban The Eternals.
GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
The World Is a Different Place
WORKS AND ADDITIONAL VIEWS
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Damon Locks performs for “Gray Sound” at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
read more:
Damon Locks Interviewed in The Believer
Bandcamp: Where Future Unfolds album by Damon Locks’ Black Monument Ensemble
Chicago Humanities: Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble
Jetfuelreview: Interview with Damon Locks
Chicago polymath Damon Locks honors a heritage of black culture and resistance