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Eustace Mamba Francis
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
b. 1992, Queens, New York
Exhibitions
Group/Juried Exhibitions
The Magic Number, Curated by Ginger Rudolph,
Artists: Caff Adeus, Kendra Dandy, Akira Gordon, Devon Harrison, Jordan Plain, Qiaira Riley, Eustace Mamba, Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, PA — 2024
Corner Stories [Jake Weiss, Eustace Mamba, Nasir Young,] DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA — 2023
Philadelphia Fellowship for Black Artists - Pop-Up Showcase, Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, PA — 2023
Yikui (Coy) Gu and Eustace Mamba, “Living in between worlds,” Commonweal Gallery, Philadelphia, PA — 2022
121st Annual Student Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA — 2022
CODEX - Year Two, The Codex Project, Works on Paper Gallery, Philadelphia , PA — 2021
Artmaking in Pandemic Times, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA — 2020 - 21
Art Jawn, Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, PA — 2020 - 21
119th Annual Student Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA — 2020
CROSSCURRENTS, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA — 2019
Reflection(s,) Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA — 2019
Roots of the Past: Saving The Future, St Stephen’s Lutheran Church, Wilmington, DE — 2019
I’ll Tell You: Unfolding the Story of Our Ancestry, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA — 2019
“Gang, Gang” Studio Show, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA — 2019
I’ll Tell You: Unfolding the Story of Our Ancestry, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA — 2019
“Underground POV” by RECphilly, Goldilocks Gallery. Philadelphia, PA — 2015
Montgomery County Community College – 45th Annual Student Exhibition. Blue Bell, PA — 2014
Education
2022 - MFA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Philadelphia, PA
2020 - BFA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Philadelphia, PA
2015 - Graphic Design
Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA
2023 - Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design
Google Career Certificate
Teaching
“So-Called Sewing,” Collage Workshop
Commonweal Gallery — July 2022
Teaching Assistant, Prof. Erlin Geffrard, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA — 2021
Middle School Film Club Instructor,
Chester County Community Charter School,
Chester, PA — 2016-17
Resident Assistant – Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Stiles Hall — 2019 -20
Digital Media and Digital Printing Assistant/Tutor at Arcadia Library, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts — 2017-20
Public Collections
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, PA
Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, Asbury, NJ
Honors and Awards
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant - 2024
Jarritos Artist Grant, Finalist - Art, 2022
President’s Undergraduate Award and Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Philadelphia, PA, 2017 – 20
The Raymond D. & Estelle Rubens Travel Scholarships, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Philadelphia, PA, 2019 – 2020
Crosscurrents, Juried Exhibition,
MFA Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Philadelphia, PA, 2019
MFA Trustee Full Tuition Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2020
Faculty Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2020
Philadelphia Mayor’s Award. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and The City of Philadelphia, 2020
The Chase Family Prize in Illustration, Honorable Mention— Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2020
The Judith McGregor Caldwell Purchase Prize for the Museum at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2020
The Philadelphia Fellowship for Black Artists - Mural Arts Philadelphia, 2020
3-D Design, “Young Simba,” Montgomery County Community College – 45th Annual Student Exhibition & Competition. Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, 2014
Press + Bibliography
Dosage Magazine, 2024, "The Magic Number Group Exhibition at Paradigm Gallery" — https://www.dosagemagazine.com/the-magic-number-group-exhibition-at-paradigm-gallery/
Hunger in Philadelphia and corner stores are focus at Da Vinci Art Alliance’s ‘Corner Stories’ By Emily Brewton Schilling, August 7, 2023 — https://www.theartblog.org/2023/08/hunger-in-philadelphia-and-corner-stores-are-focus-at-da-vinci-art-alliances-corner-stories/
New American Paintings, Northeast, Issue #164, 2023 — https://www.newamericanpaintings.com/issues/164
Yahoo.com, Jarritos Mexican Soda Announces Grand Prize Winners and Top Finalists for JARRITODOS $75,000 Artist Grant Contest, September 2022 — https://www.yahoo.com/now/jarritos-mexican-soda-announces-grand-130000528.html
Art Spiel, “Yikui Gu and Eustace Mamba at Commonweal”, 2022 — https://artspiel.org/yikui-gu-and-eustace-mamba-at-commonweal/
Create Magazine, New Exhibition Opens at Commonweal!, July 2022 — https://www.createmagazine.com/blog/new-work-by-yikui-coy-gu-eustace-mamba-at-commonweal
New American Paintings, MFA Annual, Issue #153, 2021 — https://www.newamericanpaintings.com/issues/153
Mural Arts Philadelphia “Philadelphia Fellowship for Black Artists, Meet the Cohort,” September 2020 — https://www.muralarts.org/for-artists/philadelphia-fellowship-for-black-artists/
Philadelphia Inquirer “Petition calls for PAFA to fire its CEO and make sweeping changes to ‘dismantle its structural racism,’” June 2020 — https://www.inquirer.com/arts/pafa-black-lives-matter-david-bingham-memo-20200626.html
HyperAllergic Magazine “Pennsylvania Art School Asks Faculty to Keep Professional Affiliation Separate From Activism,” June 2020 — https://hyperallergic.com/573247/pafa-faculty-school-affiliation/
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Changing Gears to Pursue A Creative Passion, November 2018
HotNewHipHop.com, On The Come-Up: Jetpack Jones – Art Direction, May 2013