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CORNELIUS 
TULLOCH

Interdisciplinary Artist and Architect | b. 1997 Miami, FL

 
    Cornelius Tulloch is a Miami and New York-based interdisciplinary artist and architect. His work transcends the boundaries of painting, photography, and architecture. Tulloch focuses on how creative mediums can be combined and subverted to tell powerful stories; exploring the creolization of cultures within the built environment and natural landscapes.

    Tulloch’s work has been shown in institutions such as the NYU Center for Black Visual Culture; CUE Art Foundation; Locust Projects; Faena Art Project Room; and the MAXXI, Rome. His work is presented as part of the permanent collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Tulloch has won numerous prizes and residencies; including the 2022 Emerging Visionary Grant by Instagram and the Brooklyn Museum’s Black Visionaries Program, and received the 2023 YoungArts Jorge M. Perez Award. He has also been recognized as artist laureate for the Bakehouse x Cité internationale des arts residency in Paris, France. Most recently, Tulloch was selected as a 2024 Knight New Works recipient pushing forward his architectural sculpture series Porch Passages. And he was invited to participate in the 2025 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art exhibition at the Orlando Museum of Art. This summer he participated in a residency at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and The Momentary in partnership with YoungArts. And he is currently a 2026 Silver Art Resident.

    As Global Artistic Director at  AIRIE. Foundation and a 2022 Fellow, he has led projects for “Personal Structures” in Venice Italy, April 2024; and the 2024 Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial.

    Many of Tulloch’s projects have been grounded in his Jamaican and African-American heritage. His work expresses the ways in which bodies exist between cultures and borders. Tulloch’s multidisciplinary practice seeks to redefine and reshape the boundaries of art and space.




    EDUCATION

2021   
Cornell University • Bachelors of Architecture
2016   
Design and Architecture Senior High
2015   
Cranbrook Academy of Art • Art Institute
2014   
School of Visual Arts • Young Designer’s Scholar


    SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2027   
Untitled, Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator Gallery at Barry University, Miami, FL
Untitled, Miami Beach Botanical Garden, Miami Beach, FL
2025   
Driftwood,  Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Untitled, The Armory Show,  Solo Booth presented by Andrew Reed Gallery, New York, NY
Porch Passages: Creole Collages, The Marshall L. Davis African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, Miami, FL
Installation, Moonlight Grotto (Miami Art Week), Soho Beach House, Miami, FL
2024   
Angisa: A language of living, Andrew Reed Gallery, Miami FL
2023   
Poetics of Place, Locust Projects, Miami FL
Vendah, Cue Art Foundation, New York NY
Installation, Tides: Spatial Memory of Being, NADA House, Governor’s Island NY
2022   
Bougainvillea: An Exploration of Adornment, Faena Project Room, Miami FL
Installation, Rhythmic Landscapes: Patterns of Identity, Soho Beach House, Miami FL
Genesis, Laundromat Art Space, Miami FL
2021   
Caribbean Contemporary, Solo Booth at Le Art Noir, Miami FL


    GROUP EXHIBITIONS 
2026   
BUTTER Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
Where We Stay, Curated by Tayina Deraville, Hued Songs at the Daisy Arts Center, Fort Lauderdale FL.
Resident Artist Show, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL
2025   
Soul Storm, Curated by Heike Dempster; nouveau deuxdeux, Munich, Germany
Rehearsal for an Exhibition, 1310 Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Reflections in Black: Reframing, Curated by Deb Willis; NYU Tisch Galleries, New York, NY
2024   
NADA Miami, Andrew Reed Gallery, Miami, FL
Body Freedom For Every(body), Touring Exhibition, Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ (Miami, FL; West Palm Beach, FL; Houston, TX; Austin, TX; Albuquerque, NM; Los Angeles, CA; Berkeley,CA)Ebb and Flow, Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, New York NY
Elements of Being x Personal Structures, AIRIE x Woven, European Cultural Centre, Venice Biennale, Venice IT
On the Way Home, Curated by Heike Dempster, Baker –Hall Gallery, Miami FL
2023   
Rest is Power, Curated by Deb Willis and Joan Morgan,NYU Center for Black Visual Culture, New York NY
Draw: Point to Point, Frist Museum of Art, Miami FL
Installation + Activation,  “Untitled”  Soho Visionaries, Soho Beach House, Miami FL
2022   
Home: Reimagining Interiority, Curated by Deb Willis and Joan Morgan,NYU Tisch Galleries, New York, NY
Florida Room No. 1, KDR 305, MIami FL
Culture Caribana, Studio 18, Pembroke Pines FL
Florida Biennial, Art and Culture Center Hollywood, Hollywood FL
2021   
Home: Reimagining Interiority, Curated by Deb Willis and Joan Morgan, YoungArts, Miami FL Obsidian House, Black Artists + Designers Guild, Virtual Concept House
2019   
Color, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn NY
Public Drawing: Learning from ‘Vedute’in Rome, AXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome IT
2018   
Exchange, Self-curated, Collaborative Installation, Cornell, Ithaca NY
Education as the Practice of Freedom, Curated by Jasmine Wahi, National YoungArts Foundation, Miami FL
2017   
Imagination Land: Fantastical Narratives, Curated by Derrick Adams  National YoungArts Foundation, Miami FL


    PERMANENT PUBLIC ART
2026   
Untitled, Culmer Community Resource Center, Miami FL  
2025   
Porch Passages: Liberty, African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, Miami FL
2024   
Porch Passages: Twilight Tides, Related Group, The Residences at SoMi Parc, Miami FL
2023   
Stories of the Sun, Related Group, Paseo del Rio, Miami FL


    SELECT RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2026   
Silver Art. New York, NY
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Bentonville, AR
2025   
Vertygo Artist Residency. Villa Clivio, Italy
2024   
Cité Internationale des Arts Paris Residency in Partnership with Bakehouse Art Complex
2023   
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Artist in Residence
Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (DVCAI) Suriname, Artist in Residence
2022   
Artist in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE), Fellow
Bakehouse Art Complex, Resident Artist (2022-2026)


    SELECT AWARDS & GRANTS 
2026   
Oolite Arts Ellies Creator Award Grant Recipient
BUTTER Art Fair - Mike & Kyra Epps Cultural Impact Award (Miami)
2025   
Oolite Arts Ellies Creator Award Grant Recipient
2024   
Knight New Work Grant Recipient (Miami)
Miami Individual Artist (MIA)  Grant Recipient
2023   
YoungArts Jorge M. Perez Award Recipient
Miami Individual Artist (MIA)  Grant Recipient
2022   
Black Visionaries, Instagram + Brooklyn Museum, Emerging Black Visionary Grant Recipient
Oolite Arts Ellies Creator Award Grant Recipient
2021   
Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Award Recipient 
Black Artists + Designers Guild Rising Star Award Recipient
2020   
Oolite Arts Ellies Creator Award Grant Recipient
2018   
Cornell Council for the Arts Grant Recipient
2016   
Presidential Scholar in the Arts, White House, Award Recipient 
National YoungArts Foundation, Visual Arts and Design Arts, Double Finalist


    PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2026   
The Bronx Museum
2020   
Studio Museum in Harlem


    SELECT PRESS & PUBLICATIONS 
2025   
The Miami Times. “‘Porch Passages: Creole Collage’ brings Miami neighborhood history to life” by Sephen Robb. 2025
2024   
Miami Herald. “His art takes him around the world, but this rising star always finds his way back to Miami” by Amanda Rosa. 2024
2023   
Burnaway Magazine. “Margin as Center: An Artist in the Amazon” by Lauren Baccus. 2023
Office Magazine. “ Visual Narratives front he Black Rest Project: Rest Is Power” by Samuel Getachew. 2023
Island Origins Magazine. “These Caribbean Artists Are Some of The Best In Miami” by Hannah Gulics. 2023
2021   
Whitewall Art. “BADG Present Expression of Black Family Life with Obsidian” by  Pearl Fontaine. 2021.
Architectural Digest. “In the Obsidian Concept House, Designers Envision What Storytelling Can Look Like.” by Madeleiene Luckel. 2021.