JaLeel Marques Porcha
B. 2001 Fort Riley, KS
Lives and works in New Brunswick, NJ
B. 2001 Fort Riley, KS
Lives and works in New Brunswick, NJ
Education
2025 (expected) Master of Fine Arts, Visual Arts
Rutgers Mason Gross School of Art, New Brunswick, NJ
2023 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography & Sculpture
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Feel It, Red Eye Gallery, Providence, RI
2022 High Interrogation, Griffin Museum Virtual Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 (forethcoming) CLOUDS ARE SO BEAUTIFUL THAT I CAN BITE MY TOES. Skylab Gallery, Columbus, OH
Dreams I Imagined, Elevated Thought, Lawrence, MA Poetics of Counter-Archives, Der Greif Guest Room, Online
2023 Sublime Periphery, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
To Harvest a Dream Buried in Dust-On Care and Blackness, IA&A at Hillyer, Washington, DC
Senior Invitational, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI
Senior Sculpture Exhibition, Dye House, Providence, RI
Senior Photography Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
1,000,000 Grit, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
2022 Expressing the Internal: The Self beyond the Selfie, Analog Forever
300 Years of Sculpture: Selections from the Scultpure Department, Prov Wash Gallery, Providence, RI
Objects and Non-Objects, Prov Wash Gallery, Providence, RI
Of Soiled Bodies, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI
2021 THERE IS NO WHY, Red Eye Gallery, Providence, RI
Memories and How We Hold Them, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI
PRIDE, The Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Something’s Missing, The Bakery Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Getting Small, Red Eye Gallery, Providence, RI
GATHER, University Hall Gallery, Boston, MA
2020 PHOTO-EMPHASIS, BACKTALK
Artist Talks
2024 Behind The Image, Der Greif, Instagram Live
2023 Rhode Island School of Design, Sculpture Senior Artist Talk
2021 University of Massachusetts Boston, Meet the Artist
Scholarship, Grants, Awards
2024 Innovate Grant, Honorable Mention
Guest Room Scholarship
2022 Critical Mass Merit Scholarship & Finalist
T.C. Colley Scholarship for Excellence in Photography
John A. Chironna Scholarship
2021 J. Stahl-Webber Scholarship
Press / Publications
2024 March, Der Greif - Der Greif X MPB: Behind the Image with JaLeel Marques Porcha
2023 October, Movements Art Journal - High Interrogation On capturing trauma and bodily alienation through experimental self-portraits
2022 March, Photolounge - PhotoLounge Presents: Jaleel Marques Porcha by Rebecca Arthur
Assistantships
2021 - Present, Qualeasha Wood, Studio and Production Assistant