CURATORIAL PRACTICE
2014 - present: Creative Director: The 48 HR Detroit Art Babe—Detroit, USA
2020 Black Arts Library: The 48 HR Complex—Highland Park, USA
2018 Hidden Gate Gallery: The 48HR—Detroit, USA
2017 TYP Gallery: The 48HR—Birmingham, USA
2014 The First 48 HR: Junction Hall—Detroit, USA
STUDIO WORK & EPXERIENCE
2021 - present: Studio Manager, Modern Ancient Brown—Detroit, USA
2016 - 2019 Studio Assistant, Tiff Massey—Detroit, USA
AWARDS & GRANTS
2020 Modern Ancient Brown Grantee
2017 Community Connection Skillman Foundation Grantee
2014 Knight Foundation Grantee
RESIDENCES
2021 Modern Ancient Brown Resident
2015 Red Bull House of Art Resident
2014 Heidelberg Project Art Resident
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Northwest Gallery (forthcoming, July)—Detroit, USA
2022 Vivo Agora: Diasporic Artists Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mapping the Interior, M Contemporary Gallery, Ferndale, USA
Michael Jesus Christ, M Contemporary Gallery, Ferndale, USA
2021 Dual Visions: Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (MOCAD)
Family Matters Ep 2. Installation: Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, USA
The In Between: The Carr Center—Group Exhibition, Detroit, USA
2020 Family Matters Ep 1. Installation: 48HR Artist Complex, Detroit, USA Art Mile: Group Exhibition/48HR Feature—Detroit, USA
2019 Family Matters Pilot Ep. Installation: Shylo Arts, Detroit, USA Useless Utility: Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
(MOCAD)—Group Exhibition, Detroit USA
2018 Murals in the Market—Group Exhibition, Detroit, USA
2017 King of Broken Hearts: Detroit is the New Black, Detroit, USA
2015 Cycle 11: Red Bull House of Art—Group Exhibition, Detroit, USA
Politics as Usual: Baltimore Gallery, Detroit, USA
2015 Ink Art Show: Tangent Gallery— Group Exhibition, Detroit, USA
2014 The Purge: Pooti Hab Gallery/Heidelberg Project, Detroit, USA
Highcoup: Elee Mosynary Gallery—Group Exhibition, Chicago, USA
Rock City Art House: Untitled Bottega—Group Exhibition, Detroit, USA
Under1roof—Group Exhibition, New York City, USA
MURAL: “I Love You Osborn”—Knight Foundation Grant, USA
2013 Residue: Scharolette Chappelle Fine Art Studio—Group Exhibition, Oak Park, USA
PRESS & MEDIA
2023 Hyperallergic, 29 March 2023. What’s Iconoclastic About a BlackfaceMadonna?
2022 Essay’d: Detroit Art & Detroit Artists, 20 December 2022. Tony Rave
2022 M Contemporary Art, 9 September to 8 October 2022. Tony Rave: Micheal Jesus Christ
2022 Detroit Metro Times, 21 September 2022. Try not to get offended if you attend Tony Rave’s ‘Michael Jesus Crisis’ exhibit in Ferndale: The Detroit artist paints Jesus Christ and angels in blackface, but there’s more to question underneath the surface
2021 The Carr Center, 4 June 2021. The In Between: A Conversation with Mariam Ezzat and Tony Rave
2021 Mutual Art, 1 February 2021. Black Art Library is a resource of rare publications highlighting the work of Black artists
2021 The Art Newspaper, 5 January 2021. Paying it forward: McArthur Binion is using his later-in-life success to help younger artists
2020 AMAR Media, 2020: The 48 Hour Experience
2019 WDET 101.9fm, 15 November 2019. In an Old Synagogue: Detroit Artist Tony Rave Brings "Family Matters" to life
2019 Documentary directed by Jeremy Brockman, 2019. Family Matters: An Art Installation by Tony Rave
2018 The Creative Armory. 18 October 2018. Tony Rave on His Work and Helping Fellow Creatives
2017 Detroit Channel 21, 2 November 2017. The Reason Why: Tony Rave
2016 Cranbrook Art Museum, 5 August 2016. The Truth Booth at the “For the Love of Osborn” Neighborhood Parade
2016 Detroit Public TV, 14 August 2016. A Day of Heart / Welcome to Osborn | American Black Journal Full Episode
2016 AMAR Media, August 2016. The Osborn Mural
2016 AP NEWS, 7 July 2016: Museum Promotes Detroit Neighborhood as Arts Destination
2015 BLAC Detroit, 4 June 2015. Detroit Artist Tony Rave on Politics as Usual Exhibition