Charles Mason III
Education
2019 MFA Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2014 BFA Graphic Design, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
2010 AA General Studies, Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
2014 The New School, New York City, NY (Graduate Level Course work)
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Goya Contemporary Gallery, You Must Treat The Person(s) You Love With the Greatest Care, Baltimore, MD
2022 Anna Zorina Gallery, “Screaming in Silence, My Salvation is Love (The End),” Los Angeles, CA
2021 Goya Contemporary Gallery, “Whose Pain Do We Acknowledge First?,” Baltimore, MD
2019 Spillway Collective, “DA Album,” Philadelphia, PA
2016 Maryland Art Place, “Freeman,” Baltimore, MD
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 STABLE, Small Talk, Washington D.C.
Presented by Creative Alliance, TENT Rotterdam, & Baltimore-Rotterdam Sister City Committee, Walk On By, Baltimore, MD
The Bishop Gallery, in collaboration with Richard Beavers Gallery, "The Stars Are Aligned/ The Time is Now," Brooklyn, NY
Current Space, Viscous, Baltimore, MD
Cincinnati Art Museum, The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Cincinnati, OH
Baker Hall, On the Way Home, Miami, FL
Washington Project Space for the Arts (WPA), Benefit Auction, Washington, DC
SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT, The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Frankfurt, Germany
2023 Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL
Gallery B, The Trawick Prize Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition, Bethesda, MD
Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, St. Louis, MO
Venus Over Manhattan, This Too Shall Pass, New York, NY
Expo Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Baltimore MD
2022 Banneker-Douglass Museum, The Radical Voice of Blackness Speaks of Resistance and Joy, Annapolis, MD
Expo Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Asya Geisberg Gallery, Charm City, New York, NY
Fields Projects, VERSO: A Virtual Sehnsucht Exhibition, New York, NY
MICA’s Meyerhoff Gallery, feels familiar, Baltimore, MD
Gormley Gallery, LAID BARE, Baltimore, MD
2021 Expo Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
UTA Art Space (Online), CARPE DIEM, Beverly Hills, CA
Kavi Gupta Gallery, Surface is only a Material Vehicle for Spirit, Chicago, IL
Simone Subal Gallery, Visions and Nightmares, New York, New York
HOUSING, A Gathering, New York, NY
2020 Virtual Artist Exhibition, presented by BOPA, “B2020,” Baltimore, MD
Current Space, “The People United : Window Exhibition,” Baltimore, MD
The Print Center, “Semifinalist, 94th Annual International Competition,” (online), Philadelphia, PA
Cade Center Gallery, “Grey Matter,” Arnold, MD
Creative Alliance Baltimore, “On the Verge: 25 New and Emerging Artists,” Baltimore, MD
William Paterson University Galleries,“Ink, Press, Repeat: National Juried Printmaking and Book Art Exhibition,” Wayne, NJ
2019 Eubie Blake Cultural Center, “Our World,” Baltimore, MD
Hudson Valley MOCA, “First Annual Juried Exhibition,” Peekskill, NY
The Studio Museum in Harlem, “Radical Reading Room,” Harlem, NY
Woodmere Art Museum, “ Woodmere Annual 78th Juried Exhibition,” Philadelphia, PA
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, “Breaching the Margins,” Grand Rapids, MI
Anna Zorina Gallery, “Proximity,” New York, NY
Hosted by InLiquid, “LIFEBLOOD,” Philadelphia, PA
Tuttleman Sculpture Gallery, “Facsimiles of Truth,” Philadelphia, PA
2018 Maryland Art Place, “Repurposed with Purpose, Meaning in the Materials of Making,” Baltimore, MD
School of Fine Arts Gallery (PAFA), "Two Cents Some Change," Philadelphia, PA
Von Hess Works on Paper Gallery "Material World," Philadelphia, PA
2017 Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance "Color(s)," Baltimore, MD
Catonsville Campus Gallery "A Thousand Words," Catonsville, MD
Barbara Crawford Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts "Warming," Philadelphia, PA
2016 Eubie Blake Cultural Center "Breaking Frames,”Baltimore, MD
Chesapeake Arts Center, “Development without Displacement” Brooklyn Park, MD
2015 OVA East Exhibition "The Here After," Baltimore, MD
Chesapeake Gallery “Oppression and Opposition: Race, Politics, and Art,” Bel Air, MD
Curated Exhibitions
2024 uninhibited black space II, Gallery CA, Baltimore, MD (for the Two Lane Stories Endowed Fund)
2022 uninhibited black space, Eubie Blake Cultural Center, Baltimore, MD (for the Two Lane Stories Endowed Fund)
2021 we're not meant to do this alone, Creative Alliance Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2019 Homage to the Kid in Me, The Gallery at Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Two Lane Stories, Gallery CA, Baltimore MD
Teaching Experience
2024-2025 Adjunct Faculty, Department of Art Graduate Studies, American University, Washington, D.C
2020-21 Adjunct Faculty, Art History and Drawing, School of Design, Stevenson University, Owings Mills, MD
2020-21 Adjunct Faculty, H&O and Drawing, Department of First Year Experience, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2019-20 Adjunct Faculty Graphic Design, Department of Visual Arts, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
2018 (Summer) Teaching Assistant, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Currents Residency, Sculpture Course)
Guest Lecturer/Critic
2024 Visiting Artist Lecture, BFA program, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD
2024 Visiting Artist Lecture and Critic, BFA Painting students, Towson University, Towson, MD
2023 Visiting Critic, MFA Grad Program, Towson University, Towson, MD
2023 Visiting Artist Lecture, Visiting Artist Program, American University, Washington, D.C.
2023 Visiting Artist Lecture and Critic, Visiting Artist Program, PAFA, Philadelphia, PA
2022 Visiting Artist Lecture, Professional Practice for Visual Artists, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2021 Visiting Artist Lecture and Critic, Visiting Artist Program, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2020 Visiting Artist Lecture, Drawing I, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA
2020 Visiting Artist Lecture, Studio Seminar: Art & Audience, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
2020 Visiting Artist Lecture, Painting II: Prioritizing Painting During Pandemic, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
2019 and 2020 Visiting Critic, Senior Printmaking Thesis, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2017 OVA East, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Awards & Residencies
2024 Semifinalist, Sondheim Art Prize, Baltimore, MD
2023 Trawick Prize Finalist and 2nd place winner, Bethesda, MD
2023 JJC Summer Artists in Residence at MICA, Baltimore, MD
2022 Waller Gallery Fellowship, Baltimore, MD
2021 MICA Resident Critic Printmaking, Fall Semester, Baltimore, MD
2021 Yaddo Foundation Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
2020 MICA Dolphin Press & Print, Artist-in-Residency, Spring Semester, Baltimore, MD
2019 Otto Lambert Grever Lithography Award, presented by the American Color Print Society
2019 Semifinalist 94th Annual International Competition, presented by The Print Center Philadelphia
2019 Maurice Freed Memorial Prize presented by Woodmere Art Museum
2019 Graduate Faculty Award presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2014 McNair Scholar presented by University of Maryland Baltimore County
2011-2012 URA award presented by University of Maryland Baltimore County
2009 CCBC Honors Program presented by Catonsville Community College
Public Artworks
2022 Preakness Mural Project in collaboration with The Last Resort Artist Retreat, Baltimore, MD
Press
2024 November 21st, Julia Halperin , “How Dropping Out of Art School Became…”Cultured Magazine
2017, July 7th, Tkacik, Christina, “Two Lane Stories, explores the work of black male artists,” Baltimore Sun
2016, February 26th, Carroll, Angela N. “I AM A MAN. Am I Next . #BlackLivesMatter. WAR?,”Bmore Art
Public Collections
Microsoft Art Collection
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
THE BUNKER Artspace, West Palm Beach, Florida
Hammer Museum Grunwald Center Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art Special Collections, New York, NY
James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD