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Creative Director: The 48 HR Detroit Art Babe—Detroit, USA

Black Arts Library: The 48 HR Complex—Highland Park, USA

Hidden Gate Gallery: The 48HR—Detroit, USA

TYP Gallery: The 48HR—Birmingham, USA

The First 48 HR: Junction Hall—Detroit, USA

Studio Manager, Modern Ancient Brown—Detroit, USA

Studio Assistant, Tiff Massey—Detroit, USA

Modern Ancient Brown Grantee
Community Connection Skillman Foundation Grantee

Knight Foundation Grantee

 

 

 

 

Modern Ancient Brown Resident

Red Bull House of Art Resident

Heidelberg Project Art Resident

 

 

 

 

Northwest Gallery (forthcoming, July)—Detroit, USA

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

 

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

Family Matters Ep 1. Installation: 48HR Artist Complex, Detroit, USA Art Mile: Group Exhibition/48HR Feature—Detroit, USA

Family Matters Pilot Ep. Installation: Shylo Arts, Detroit, USA Useless Utility: Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD)—Group Exhibition, Detroit USA

Murals in the Market—Group Exhibition, Detroit, USA

King of Broken Hearts: Detroit is the New Black, Detroit, USA

Cycle 11: Red Bull House of Art—Group Exhibition, Detroit, USA

Politics as Usual: Baltimore Gallery, Detroit, USA

Ink Art Show: Tangent Gallery— Group Exhibition, Detroit, USA

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

Residue: Scharolette Chappelle Fine Art Studio—Group Exhibition, Oak Park, USA

 

 

 

 

 

Hyperallergic, 29 March 2023. What’s Iconoclastic About a BlackfaceMadonna?

 

Essay’d: Detroit Art & Detroit Artists, 20 December 2022. Tony Rave

 

M Contemporary Art, 9 September to 8 October 2022. Tony Rave: Micheal Jesus Christ

 

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

 

The Carr Center, 4 June 2021. The In Between: A Conversation with Mariam Ezzat and Tony Rave

 

Mutual Art, 1 February 2021. Black Art Library is a resource of rare publications highlighting the work of Black artists

 

The Art Newspaper, 5 January 2021. Paying it forward: McArthur Binion is using his later-in-life success to help younger artists

 

AMAR Media, 2020: The 48 Hour Experience
 

WDET 101.9fm, 15 November 2019. In an Old Synagogue: Detroit Artist Tony Rave Brings "Family Matters" to life

 

Documentary directed by Jeremy Brockman, 2019. Family Matters: An Art Installation by Tony Rave

 

The Creative Armory. 18 October 2018. Tony Rave on His Work and Helping Fellow Creatives

 

Detroit Channel 21, 2 November 2017. The Reason Why: Tony Rave

 

Cranbrook Art Museum, 5 August 2016. The Truth Booth at the “For the Love of Osborn” Neighborhood Parade
 

Detroit Public TV, 14 August 2016. A Day of Heart / Welcome to Osborn | American Black Journal Full Episode
 

AMAR Media, August 2016. The Osborn Mural

 

AP NEWS, 7 July 2016: Museum Promotes Detroit Neighborhood as Arts Destination

 

BLAC Detroit, 4 June 2015. Detroit Artist Tony Rave on Politics as Usual Exhibition

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