TOMORROW BLAKE CHAPMAN
(b. 1997, Jamaican-Nigerian)EDUCATION
2026 - Master of Fine Arts, Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2021 - Bachelor of Arts, Journalism & Design, The New School, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 - Written on the Wind, BAXTER ST, New York, NY
2026 - New Contemporaries, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI
2026 - Rhode Island School of Design Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI
2026 - Breathless in Glowing Air: Ten Years Stretched Across New York, Rectangle Room, New York, NY
2026 - Please Catch Me When I Fall, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI
2025 - Every Time I Conjure a Stone I Throw It, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
2025 - Breathless in Glowing Air: Ten Ungraceful and Uncareful Years, KAMP Gallery, Portland, OR
2025 - Breathless in Glowing Air: Ten Years Stretched Across London, 10 14 Gallery, London, UK
2025 - Motherlode, Skylight Gallery, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2024 - Thoughts That Stare, Red Eye Gallery, Providence, RI
2023 - Worlds of Dreams, dear friend books, New York, NY
2023 - Faces of Harlem, Morningside Park, New York, NY
2023 - Fragments of Devotion, Secret Flowers, Richmond, VA
2022 - Raindrop Wings, Agony Books, Richmond, VA
2022 - Palm* Photo Prize, 10 14 Gallery, London, UK
2021 - Group Show #69, Humble Arts Foundation (online)
2019 - WERQ: We’ve Been Doing This Our Whole Lives, Cluster Gallery, New York, NY
WORK/TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Rhode Island School of Design:
2026 - Photography, Dream & Play, Instructor (with Gyumin Dong 규민)
2026 - Digital Imaging I, TA to Brian Ulrich
2025 - Studio Topics: The Portrait, TA to Brian Ulrich
2025 - The Image & Difference, TA to Odette Elix England
2024 - Contemporary Photography & Research, TA to Eduardo L. Rivera
LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS
2026 - Visiting Artist Lecturer, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2026 - Careful Looking, Night School Social, New York, NY
BOOKS
2026 - Careful Looking, published by wych elm press
2022 - Make It Like a Memory, published by Pomegranate Press
AWARDS
2025 - Rhode Island School of Design Graduate Commons Grant
2025 - Atlanta Center for Photography Equity Scholarship
2022 - Palm* Photo Prize Shortlist