Jer’Lisa J. Devezin
Artist and Educator
Email: jerlisadevezinart@gmail.com
Education
2019 MFA, Studio Art Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University
2011 BA, Studio Art Dillard University
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Prints (Forthcoming Fall 2025) Hawn Gallery, Southern Methodist University
What’s Tea (Forthcoming June 2025) Ferrington and Smith Gallery
2023 New Growth, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
2021 Beaucoup Shive: Madam CJ Walker Ain't Got Nothin’ on Me, Nasher Sculpture Center
Makin’ Groceries, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX.
Shake Session, Dillard University Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA.
Group Exhibitions
2024 Tulane Contemporary 6. Carroll Gallery, New Orleans, LA.
Chateau Show, Historical Aldredge House, Dallas, TX.
2023 Parading Towards Freedom: The Soul of Philanthropy, Tate, Etienne, & Prevost Interpretive Center
Sweet Pass Car Wash, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas, TX.
2022 Self-Unfixed Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX.
Texas Vignette, Dallas, TX.
2021 SMU Faculty Show, Pollock Gallery, Dallas, TX.
Tarrant County Faculty Show, The Carillon Gallery, Fort Worth, TX.
Group Show, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX.
2020 50th Faculty Exhibition, Mesquite Arts Center, Mesquite, TX.
Vivrant Thang, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX.
2019 Queer Me Now, 500X Gallery & The MAC, Dallas,TX.
Cosmic to Corporeal, The MAC, Dallas, TX.
Time and Temperature, H. Paxton Moore Gallery, Dallas TX.
M.F.A Exhibition, Pollock Gallery, Dallas, TX.
College Expo, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX.
2018 Queer Difficulty: The Body, Doolin Gallery, Dallas, TX.
Temporary Collectives, Trinity Groves Artist Space, Dallas, TX.
Antenna Part 3, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA.
2016 Homecoming, Dillard University Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA.
Refractional Presence, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA.
Louisiana Contemporary, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA.
Controls and Counter Reactions, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA.
7 On 7, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA.
2014 Convergence, Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA.
Performances/Activations
2021 Kept, Nasher Sculpture Center
2019 Kiss My Ass, The MAC, Dallas, TX.
2017 Tension, SMU Taos, Taos, NM.
Fellowships, Residencies, Awards
2025 Creative Assembly Cohort. New Orleans Museum of Art
2024 Darryl Chappell Foundation Grant
2023 Performance-based funding grant, Southern Methodist University
2021 Equity in the Arts Fellowship, Talley Dunn Gallery. Dallas, TX.
2020 Art Walk West Artist Micro Grant, Dallas, TX.
Educator Grant, Bloom Fund.
2013 New Orleans Local Artist Program, Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA.
2010 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC.
Artist Lectures / Workshops / Conferences
2024 Association of Black Women Historians Conference, New Orleans, LA.
2023 Jazz in the Park Dallas, TX.
Artist talk series: Creativity, University of Texas Dallas.
2021 Faculty Series Talks, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX.
Women in Art, The Hockaday School, Dallas, TX.
Texas Talks Art, w/ Leigh Arnold of Nasher Sculpture Center
2020 Makin’ Groceries Artist Talk, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX.
2019 Guest lecturer Drawing, Dallas College East eld Campus
Ceramics Workshop high school, Dallas College El Centro Campus
Printmaking/Silkscreen workshop, Jakmel Ekspresyon, Jacmel, Haiti
Bibliography
Historical Figures, Food, and Feminism
Good Hair: Jer’Lisa Devezin at Nasher Sculpture Center
At the Nasher, Jer’Lisa Devezin Reimagines the Black Body
Talley Dunn Gallery: Equity in the Arts Fellowship
Texas Talks Art w/ Leigh Arnold