Deyjah Stewart (b. 1998)

Fort Worth, TX

b.1998, Brooklyn, NY, raised in Spring Hill, FL

EDUCATION

2022 B.F.A. in Studio Art, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
2020 A.A. in Visual Arts Tarrant County College District, Northeast Campus, Hurst, TX

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Solitude: Harmonious Evolution, Arts Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
2021 Fall 2021 Student Union Art Gallery Space, In My Space, 010 Gallery at Hubbard Hall, Denton, TX

2022 Visual Arts Society of Texas (VAST) Members Exhibition, Meadows Gallery, Patterson Appleton Arts Center, Denton, TX
Artes y Cultura Exhibition, Arts Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
2022 Texas Now Online Showcase, presented by Artspace111, Fort Worth, TX

2022 Fort Worth Biennial juried by Lilia Kudelia, Arts Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
23rd Annual Wills Creek Exhibition of Fine Art juried by Ian Alden Russell, Allegany Arts Council, Cumberland, MD
Rising Star Exhibition, nominated by the Kirk Hopper Gallery and Giovanni Valderas, Turner House in North Oak Cliff, Dallas, TX
16th Annual TAC Member Exhibition juried by Narong Tintamusik, Arts Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
New Texas Talent XXIX, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
BFA Exhibition, East and West Galleries, Denton, TX
John Weinkein Juried Student Exhibition juried by Deedra Baker, East and West Galleries, Denton, TX

2021 500X Gallery College Expo 2021, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Visual Culture REPRESENT! Series: Intersections juried by John Spriggins, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
Visual Arts Society of Texas (VAST) Members Exhibition, Meadows Gallery, Patterson Appleton Arts Center, Denton, TX
Now | Contemporary 2021 Juried Exhibition presented by Art Room and juried by Dr. Lauren Cross, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
John Weinkein Juried Student Exhibition, East and West Galleries, Denton, TX

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
2023 Fuentes, Jessica. “This and That: Amy Cutler and Deyjah Stewart.” Glasstire, 17 Apr. 2023

Krznarich, Megan Wilson. “Powerful Craft: A Review of ‘Woven Together’ at Kinfolk House.”
Glasstire, 16 Apr. 2023.
Verrando, Sally. “Art with a Twist on Traditional Craft and Personal Stories at Fort Worth’s Kinfolk
House.” KERA News, KERA, 2 Mar. 2023.

2022 Stewart, Deyjah, and Tanya Synar. (in press) “Fierce Solitude.” TWU Student Journal.
Stewart, Deyjah, and Tanya Synar. “Fierce Solitude.” Repository @TWU University Libraries, Texas
Woman’s University, 12 May. 2022.
Presentation
Fierce Solitude,
Creative Arts and Research Symposium, April 2022

AWARDS/GRANTS/SCHOLARSHIPS
2023 The Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

2021-2022 Student Research Grant Program, Texas Woman’s University

Experiential Student Scholars Program Research Grant for creative research Fierce Solitude, Texas Woman’s University, September 2021- March 2022

2022 Best of Show 23rd Annual Wills Creek Exhibition of Fine Art
Winner of the 2022 Texas Artist Coalition (TAC) juried competition
First Place John Weinkein Juried Student Exhibition

2021Honorable Mention at Visual Arts Society of Texas (VAST) Members Exhibition
Texas Association for Developing Colleges (TXADC) Urban Scholarship Fund
CBC Spouses Visual Arts Scholarship
InovateHER Entrepreneurial Scholarship
Catherine Cloud Edwards Scholarship (Visual Arts)
First Place John Weinkein Juried Student Exhibition
John Weinkein Distinction in the Visual Arts Endowed Award

2020 Frederic and Eileen Monaghan Whitaker Foundation Undergraduate Art Scholarship.
Evelyn Moren Art Scholarship
Helen Thomas Perry Endowment Art Scholarship