Darlene Deloris White

Brooklyn based historian/multi-disciplinary artist Darlene Deloris graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BA in Historical Studies from SUNY Empire State University. She is a self-taught artist using ethnographic research and a variety of mediums, texture, colors, and symbols to create portraits that give voice to the Black diaspora. She is a teaching artist Supermoon Community Artspace in Ridgewood and has had artwork featured in dozens of exhibitions and public works, including a billboard with SaveArtspace (2021), currently featured in the 2024 Harlem Grown Sankofa public installation, and has received Honorable Mention at the annual Best of SUNY juried exhibition (2024).

She was a 2023 AIR at Ma’s House of Southampton, was currently an AIR with the SHIFT Residency from January-July 2024, powered by the Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts, and has been accepted into the Chateau d’Orquevaux Artist In Residency Program for 2025.

Her next series will center around experiences of transitioning to motherhood during the pandemic. At Woodward, she will focus on drawing, bookmaking, and collage. As she gathers information from carefully selected subjects for this next series, time spent at Woodward Residency will be focused on creating this next book to coexist with the portraits of the selected subjects.