Arcmanoro Niles

Arcmanoro Niles (b. 1989, Washington, D.C.) earned a BFA from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, an MFA from New York Academy of Art, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He has participated in exhibitions at the University of Delaware, Newark, DE; the David C. Driskell Center, College Park, MD; Long Gallery, New York, NY; Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY; and Shanghai University, Shangahi, China; among others. Niles will be featured in the group exhibition On Refusal: Representation & Resistance in Contemporary American Art, opening in October 2019 at the MAC Belfast in Northern Ireland. His work is included in the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas, the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. A recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, Niles lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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Arcmanoro Niles, My Heart is Like Paper, 2018, oil, acrylic and glitter on canvas, 75 x 50 inches (190.5 x 127 cm)
Arcmanoro Niles, The Nights I Don't Remember, the Nights I Can't Forget, 2018, oil, acrylic and glitter on canvas, 72 x 70 inches (182.9 x 177.8 cm)
Arcmanoro Niles, Does a Broken Home Become a Broken Family, 2019, oil, acrylic and glitter on canvas, 77 x 92 inches (195.6 x 233.7 cm)
Arcmanoro Niles, I Have No Enemies, 2018, oil, acrylic and glitter on canvas, 25 x 22 inches (63.5 x 55.9 cm)
Arcmanoro Niles, Where No One Cares If You Hide and Cry (I Don't Feel for Sleep Anymore), 2019, oil and acrylic on canvas, 64 x 85 inches (162.6 x 215.9 cm)
Installation view, Arcmanoro Niles, My Heart is Like Paper: Let the Old Ways Die, March 8 - April 28, 2019
Installation view, Arcmanoro Niles, My Heart is Like Paper: Let the Old Ways Die, March 8 - April 28, 2019
Installation view, Arcmanoro Niles, My Heart is Like Paper: Let the Old Ways Die, March 8 - April 28, 2019
Installation view, Arcmanoro Niles, My Heart is Like Paper: Let the Old Ways Die, March 8 - April 28, 2019
Arcmanoro Niles, Bad Kid, It Wasn't Love. (Like My Daddy's the Devil), 2018, oil, acrylic and glitter on canvas, 45 1/2 x 40 inches (115.6 x 101.6 cm)
Arcmanoro Niles, Lunch Isn't Free (I Don't Want to Live Alone), 2018, oil and acrylic on canvas, 44 x 64 inches (111.8 x 162.6 cm)
Arcmanoro Niles, Longing for Change (I've Given up on Being Well), 2019, oil, acrylic and glitter on canvas, 55 x 66 inches (139.7 x 167.6 cm)
Arcmanoro Niles, Go Home to Nothing (Hoping for More), 2018, oil, acrylic and glitter on canvas, 56 x 80 inches (142.2 x 203.2 cm)
Arcmanoro Niles, Homesick for a Home I Never Had, 2018, oil, acrylic and glitter on canvas, 52 x 72 inches (132.1 x 182.9 cm)
Installation view, Arcmanoro Niles, My Heart is Like Paper: Let the Old Ways Die, March 8 - April 28, 2019
Installation view, Arcmanoro Niles, My Heart is Like Paper: Let the Old Ways Die, March 8 - April 28, 2019
Installation view, Arcmanoro Niles, My Heart is Like Paper: Let the Old Ways Die, March 8 - April 28, 2019
Installation view, Arcmanoro Niles, My Heart is Like Paper: Let the Old Ways Die, March 8 - April 28, 2019
Arcmanoro Niles, My Life's Been a Country Song, 2018, oil, acrylic and glitter on canvas, 48 x 46 inches (121.9 x 116.8 cm)
Arcmanoro Niles, Trying Not to Feel the Trouble, 2018, oil, acrylic, and glitter on canvas, 36 x 38 inches (91.4 x 96.5 cm)
Arcmanoro Niles, How Much of My Mother Has My Mother Left in Me, 2018, oil, acrylic and glitter on canvas, 62 x 48 inches (157.5 x 121.9 cm)
Installation view, Ten Years, Rachel Uffner Gallery, September 12 - October 28, 2018
Arcmanoro Niles, Whats Left of Me (Wild Heart), 2018, oil, acrylic and glitter on canvas, 32 x 35 inches (81.3 x 88.9 cm)
Arcmanoro Niles, Wednesday Morning, 2018, oil and acrylic on canvas, 42 x 36 inches (106.7 x 91.4 cm)
Arcmanoro Niles, The Prize, 2017, oil, acrylic and glitter on canvas, 64 x 60 inches (162.6 x 152.4 cm)
Arcmanoro Niles, Distant Stranger (Welcomer), 2016, oil, acrylic and glitter on canvas, 48 x 38 inches (121.9 x 96.5 cm)
Arcmanoro Niles, The Gift of the Offspring, 2016, oil, acrylic and glitter on canvas, 54 x 48 inches (137.2 x 121.9 cm)
Arcmanoro Niles, Where Power Lies, 2016, oil and acrylic on canvas, 24 x 20 inches (61 x 50.8 cm)
Arcmanoro Niles, A Safe Place Since Birth (Sisters), 2016, oil, acrylic and glitter on canvas, 60 x 46 inches (152.4 x 116.8 cm)
Arcmanoro Niles, When We Played As Kids, 2016, oil, acrylic and glitter on canvas, 70 x 84 inches (177.8 x 213.4 cm)
Arcmanoro Niles, What Time Had Done, 2017, oil, acrylic and glitter on canvas, 56 x 68 inches (142.2 x 172.7 cm)
Arcmanoro Niles, Stipulations of Love, 2017, oil, acrylic and glitter on canvas, 62 x 60 inches (157.5 x 152.4 cm)
Arcmanoro Niles, One day I'll feel it too (Seeking shelter), 2017, oil, acrylic and glitter on canvas, 54 x 34 inches (137.2 x 86.4 cm)
Installation view, Arcmanoro Niles, Revisiting The Area, Rachel Uffner Gallery
Installation view, Arcmanoro Niles, Revisiting The Area, Rachel Uffner Gallery
Installation view, Arcmanoro Niles, Revisiting The Area, Rachel Uffner Gallery
Arcmanoro Niles, The Field of Sacred Duty, 2015, oil and acrylic on canvas, 44 x 49 inches (111.8 x 124.5 cm)
Arcmanoro Niles, The Veil of Thought, 2014, oil on canvas, 62 x 44 inches (157.5 x 111.8 cm)