MacDowell Fellow, Carl E. Hazlewood, BFA (with honors) Pratt, and MA from Hunter College, was born in Guyana, South America and resides in Brooklyn, NY.
Visual Artist, curator and writer, Hazlewood co-founded Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ, which celebrated 30 years with the exhibition, 'Aljira at 30-Dreams and Reality', co-curated by Hazlewood, for the New Jersey State Museum, in 2014. Recent awards and honors include residencies and fellowships from The Brown Foundation Fellows Program at the Dora Maar House, Menerbes, France, The Bogliasco Foundation, Genoa, Italy, The NARS Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Headlands Center for the Arts, Yaddo, and the Vermont Studio Center, among numerous others. A 2017 'Tree of Life' award grantee, his fifty-two-feet-work, TRAVELER (2017), was commissioned by the Knockdown Center, Queens. Hazlewood's work has been shown recently in PRIZM, Volta, and Scope Art Fairs. BOMB Magazine, NYTimes, Hyperallergic, have written about the artist and his work. Hazlewood is currently working as an Artist-in-Residence at 'Art Cake', an organization founded by Cordy and Ethan Ryman in Brooklyn, NY.