Devin T. Mays
Lives in Chicago
born 1985 (Detroit)

EDUCATION

2016 Master of Fine Arts, University of Chicago

2008 Bachelor of Business Administration, Howard University

SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS

2023
Liste Art Fair Basel
In Practice: Devin T. Mays, Sculpture Center, New York

2022
Open, Wedge Projects, Chicago

2021
An Offering of Things, Regards, Chicago
Leave me letters and dust, with Luna Ghisetti, Apparatus Projects, Chicago

2019
Things Become Things, Regards, Chicago
An Orange Dragon, Chicago Artists Coalition

2017
Everything is Everything, Regards, Chicago

GROUP EXHIBITIONS and PERFORMANCES

2023
Women of the ’20’s, Belmacz, London
Life Cycles, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago
Reckless Rolodex, Gallery 400, University of Illinois Chicago
Passing Through, Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago

2022
The Day I Met the Sun, Moody Center for the Arts
The Day I Met the Sun, MCA Chicago

2021
A Tale of Today: Emerging Artists Fellowship exhibition, Driehaus Museum, Chicago

2020
Another Idea, Gray Center for Arts an Inquiry at the University of Chicago
The Long Dream, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Four Flags Chicago, Chicago Manual Style, Curated by Stephanie Cristello and Ruslana Lichtzier

2019
Impudence, performance with Dexter T. Mays, Regards
All Things are True, screening, Chicago Artists Coalition

2018
Preview 8, Chicago Artists Coalition, Curated by Jared Quinton
Up Close Step Back Further, Curated by Tony Lewis and Chenée Lewis, with Caroline Kent, and Kellie Romany, Studio 1469, Washington, D.C.
Bulldogging, Regards, Chicago

2017
Four Saints in Three Acts, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago

2016
Nahmad Projects, London
And No One Fish in the Middle, Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago

2015
Dandy Lion, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago

PUBLICATIONS and REVIEWS

2021
Lichtzier, Ruslana, An Offering of Things, exhibition essay, Regards
Estrela Beck, Sarah M., Critics’ Picks Chicago, Luna Ghisetti and Devin T. Mays, Artforum

2020
Art 50 2020: Chicago’s Artists’ Artists, Newcity
Cardoza, Kerry, A Means of Signaling: A Review of Four Flags at Chicago Manual Style, Newcity
Four Flags, exhibition catalogue, Chicago Manual Style

2019
Notations. Artist’s book with contributions from Zachary Cahill, Sarah M. Estrela, Caroline Kent, and Tony Lewis.

2018
Gates, Theaster. Black Artists Retreat: Reflections on Convening. Introduction and interviews by Devin Mays.

2017
Schutter, David with Devin Mays. “David Schutter interviews Devin Mays”, TEN