Jade Ariana Fair

b. San Jose, CA 1989

jadearianaart@gmail.com | | (310) 946 8687

Education
The New School for Liberal Arts, Culture and Media, 2012

Exhibitions
2017 primoridal hoochie mama: everybody here came from somewhere Installation, San
Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2017 i just want to be in the Black euphoria with you Solo exhibition and installation, E.M.
Wolfman General Bookstore, Oakland, CA
2017 Danger to the System: Rouge Pulse Group Show curated by Michael
Daddona, Site Specific Installation and Live Painting Pro-Arts Gallery, Oakland,
CA
2017 No New Art Show" Group Show curated by Brontez Purnell, The Lab, San
Francisco, CA
2016 "Group Show III" curated by Soleil Summers and Claire Staples, Slurp
Gallery and Studios, Oakland, CA
2016 "Them Are Weavers," Solo Exhibition, Mixed Media and Found Object
Paintings, Black Spring Coffee Company, Oakland, CA
2016 "SPIRIT" Zine Release Group Show curated by Yetunde Olagbaju, Qulture
Collective, Oakland, CA

Performance
2018 Earthbound (in collaboration with Angel Castellon), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film
Archive (forthcoming)
2017 Earthbound (in collaboration with Angel Castellon), The Universe is Lit: Bay Area Black
and Brown Punk Fest, Oakland, CA
2017 Solo performance as Spellbreaker Tropic Green//A night of performance
and video curated by Adee Roberson, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2016 Collaborative performance with Angel Castellon, LoBot Gallery, Oakland,
CA
2016 "The Hundy" Series, E.M. Wolfman General Bookstore, Oakland, CA
2015 "Circular Reasoning," "The News" Queer Performance Series, SOMArts,
San Francisco, CA

Sound
2016 E.P. , "The Flood" performing with Angel Castellon as Earthbound (drums,
synth, vocals), Oakland, CA

Publications
2017 E.M. Wolfman New Life Quarterly (forthcoming)
2017 Untitled in Danger to the System: Rouge Pulse Companion Zine to
Group Show, Oakland, CA
2016 "Carpe Omnia" and reproduction of 65 Million and More Names I Know
and Dont in "The Peak" Magazine, "Reclamation Issue," Toronto, ON
2015 reproduction of A Prophecy for Water During a Drought, "SPIRIT" Zine
Issue #1 curated by Yetunde Olagbaju, Oakland, CA
2015 "Working the Roots: Plant Allies for Black Life", "The Peak" Magazine,
"Magic Issue", Toronto, ON
Press
The Universe is Lit, a Black and Brown Punk Festival Kicks Off This Week. East Bay Express,
2017
A Closing Celebration of Jade Ariana's Solo Exhibition East Bay Express, July 2017
An Interview with the organizers of The Universe is Lit on Pure Pop for Queer
Lovers, Radio Valencia.FM May 2017
The Universe is Lit: The Bay Areas New Black and Brown Punk Fest, Spark
Mag, April 2017
"An Interview with Earthbound on Scream Queens Radio, 104.1 FM February
2017
"Heard of Jade Ariana? She's An Artist and Musician You'll Want to Watch"
Amplified Feels with Brontez Purnell, SF Weekly, November 2016
"Earthbound Channels the Planet's Rage," East Bay Express, September 2016

Collections
Private Collection, New Orleans, LA
Private Collection, Oakland, CA
Private Collection, Portland, OR
Private Collection, Brooklyn, NY

Panels and Teaching

2017 Teaching Artist, Youth Arts Initiative of Pro-Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
2016 "Black Art, Artistry and Capitalism," Panel Speaker as apart of "The
Spectrum Summit" East Side Arts Alliance, Oakland, CA
2016 "Tarot, Illustration, and Archetypes in Everyday Life" Teaching Artist,
Penasco Theater Collective Youth Arts Camp, Penasco, NM
2016 "You Fly" by Wura-Natasha Ogunji, performer and Q&A panelist, 16th St.
BART station/The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2016 "Conjure and Manifest: Building a Sustainable Arts Practice" Panel
Speaker and Healing Arts Practitioner, Stanford University
2014 "Media Literacy Through Sound" Youth Workshop, Guest Teacher Bay
Area Video Coalition, San Francisco, CA

Social Practice
2017 "The Universe is Lit: Bay Area Black and Brown Punk Festival,"
Founding member and core organizer, Oakland/San Francisco, CA
2016 "Radical Love: LGBTQ Youth Pride," Healing Arts Practitioner, Hayward,
CA
2015 "Women's Healing Clinic," Healing Arts Practitioner, Oakland, CA
2015 "UC Berkeley Women's Healing Clinic" Healing Arts Practitioner, UC
Berkeley
2015 "Youth Healing Clinic," Healing Arts Practitioner, Oakland, CA

Curatorial Experience
2017 The Universe is Lit Group Show, Slurp Gallery and Studios, Oakland, CA

Residencies
2017 Artist in Residence, The Center for Afrofuturist Studies, Iowa City, IA