Overview

September 13, 2025 — June 14, 2026

Curated by Alexander Jarman, Assistant Curator of Exhibitions and Academic Outreach

Jamea Richmond-Edwards is an interdisciplinary artist working in video, collage, and painting. For the past decade, much of her work has featured the communities and cultural signifiers of her hometown of Detroit, and has served as both a means of processing and contextualizing her own life’s journey and a meditation on larger social and environmental concerns. Most recently, her wide-ranging research interests—which span religion, history, mythology, and ancestry—have informed monumental paintings that offer complex narratives addressing humanity’s shared histories while also centering the Black diasporic experience. For her exhibition at the Wellin Museum, recent and newly created works that not only contextualize these complex histories, but offer spiritual reflections on a sustainable future, will be on view.

Jamea Richmond-Edwards (b. 1982, Detroit) earned a BA from Jackson State University (2004) and an MFA from Howard University (2012). Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, California African American Museum (Los Angeles), Charles Wright Museum (Detroit), Delaware Art Museum (Wilmington), Frist Art Museum (Nashville), Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Phillips Collection (Washington DC). She is a 2018 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, and her works are included in the collections of the Rubell Family Collection, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the US Department of State’s Art in Embassies program.

The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art’s programs are made possible, in part, with funds from the Daniel W. Dietrich ’64 Arts Museum Programming Fund; the Johnson-Pote Museum Director Fund; the John B. Root ’44 Exhibition Fund; the Edward W. and Grace C. Root Endowment Fund; and the William G. Roehrick ’34 Lecture Fund.