Photographer, Multidisciplinary Artist, Educator

Terry Boddie is a photographer and multidisciplinary artist who explores historical and contemporary aspects of memory, migration, and globalization refracted through his experience as a first-generation immigrant from the island of Nevis in the Eastern Caribbean. He experiments with different disciplines in search of a language that transcends our traditional notions of a photograph, blurring the distinctions between photography, drawing, and painting. Boddie earned his BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from Hunter College. He has exhibited his work in institutions including the Parc La Villette in Paris, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art Art Museum of the Americas. Boddie’s awards and honors include artist residences at The Studio Museum of Harlem, The Center for Book Arts, and the Marie Sharpe Walsh Foundation. He’s also received artist fellowships from the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Brodsky Center, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and a photography grant from the George and Helen Segal Foundation. His work is in the Philadelphia Museum, The National Museum of African American History and Culture, and private collections. 

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  • Angela Davis-Seize the Time, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ

    The Mark and the Memory, JKC Gallery, Trenton, NJ,

    Vision 1020, Kenekleba Gallery, New York, NY

    Migration and Meaning(s) In Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

    More Than Meets the Eye, Southern Vermont Center for the Arts, Manchester, VA

    Five-Up, Brick and Mortar Gallery, Easton, PA

    Cit.i.zen.ship, NYU Tisch Photography and Imaging Gallery, New York, NY

    Race, Myth, Art and Justice, Caribbean Cultural Center, New York, NY

    Art in Embassies Exhibition, United States Embassy N’Djamena, Chad

    Ready or Not, At Any Given Moment, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

    In-Site: The Creative Process in Plain Sight, Paul Robeson Gallery, Newark, NJ

    Birth of a Cypher, Aljira A Center for Contemporary Arts, Newark, NJ

    NJ Fellows Exhibition, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ

    Wrestling With the Image, The Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC

    I International Triennial del Caribe, Museo Arte de Moderno, Santo Domingo

    KREYOL Factory, Parc La Villette, Paris, France

    \'flō\: art, text, new media, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY

    Perpetual Motion, John Jay College, New York, NY

    Return: Home, Paul Roberson Center for the Arts, Princeton, NJ

    A People’s Geography: The Spaces of African American Life, Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD

    Infinite Island, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

    Memory and Place, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY

    Tropicalisms, The Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ

    HRL, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY  

    Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, Philadelphia African American Museum, Philadelphia, PA

    The Changing Same: Artists in Harlem, Triple Candie, New York, NY 

    Invisible Cities, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY

    Artist to Artist, A Decade of the Space Program. Ace Gallery, New York, NY

    Panyard, an installation, Nicole Awai and Terry Boddie, Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY

    Zoning, The Project, New York, NY

    Material and Matter, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

    Trajectories, Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, NY

    From the Studio: Artists in Residence 1999-2000, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY  

    Confluence: Artists' Books at Five Myles, Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY

    Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 To the Present, Smithsonian Institution, Anacostia Museum, Washington, DC      

    The Discriminating Lens, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA

    For Myles, Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY

    New Jerusalem, Thoughtforms, New York, NY

  • Birth of a Cypher, Aljira A Center for Contemporary Arts, Newark, NJ

    The Discriminating Lens, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA

  • BCIE, New Jersey Print and Paper Fellowship, New Brunswick, NJ, 2009

    The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY, 2002

    Marie Sharpe Walsh Art Foundation Space Program, New York, NY 2001

    Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY, 2001

    Knight Foundation Fellowship, Brandywine Workshop. Philadelphia, PA, 2001

    Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, 1999-2000

    Longwood Arts Project, Bronx, NY, 1999-2000

    Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ, 1999

    Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, 1997-98

  • To Unweave the Sugar Plantation: Memory, Landscape, and Photography in Terry Boddie’s Sugar Plantation Landscape, Sophia Frances Kitlinski

    Collecting Black Studies, The Art of Material Culture, The University of Texas at Houston, p. 117 Lise Ragbir, Cherise Smith

    A Blueprint for Public Housing, Smithsonian NMAAHC, Tyler Harrison, October 2019

    A-Z of Caribbean Art, Melanie Archer, Ariel Brown, p.38

    For Whom It Stands, The Flag and the American People, p. 56, Michelle Joan Wilkinson

    Small Axe 41, What is an Island? Caribbean Studies and the Contemporary Visual Artist, p.19 Michelle Stephens

    Reflections, Yale Divinity School, vol.100, no. 1, spring Ray Waddle,

    Paradise: A Survey of Contemporary Photography, 2012, p. 142-145, Melanie Archer, Ariel Brown

    The Residue of Memory, All About Mentoring, Issue 42, winter 2012 Alan Mandell

    About Change in Latin America and the Caribbean, Art Program World Bank p.138

    Small Axe 28, Visual Memory in the Caribbean, February 2009

    Artist's montages explore, Albany Times Union, March 30, 2008, Time Kane

    Caribbean contradictions, New York Newsday, September 7, 2007 Ariella Budick

    The Underbelly of the Caribbean, New York Sun, August 30, 2007 Esplund Lance

    Resonance: The Essence of the Playing Field, Small Axe 16, September 2004, pp.32-42 Rocio Aranda-Alvarado

    Material and Matter, New York Times (Weekend-Arts & Leisure) Holland Cotter, March 9, E36

    Culture and Memory, Nka: Journal and Contemporary African Art, Rocio Aranda-AlvaradoNo. 13/14, Spring/Summer, p.123

    Het Verleden Herleefd: Fotowerken van Terry E. Boddie, Kunstbeeld, Rob Perree, November 2000, pp. 26-27

    “Trajectories” Smack Mellon, NY Arts, November 2000, p. 69 Deborah Everett

    Picking Out Distinctive Voices in a Pluralistic Chorus, New York Times (Weekend-Arts & Leisure), August 18, p. E36 Holland Cotter

    NY Arts, April 2000, pp. 14-15 Deborah Everett, Hanne Tierney, Marian Griffiths & Five Myles,

    A Diversity of Media from Black Artists, January 23, New York Times (The City) p. CY14, Delbanco Andrea,

  • New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, 2009 & 2021

    George and Helen Segal Foundation Photography Grant, 2011-2012

    Finalist, Frederick Douglas Traffic Circle Design Competition, 2003

    New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 2000

    New Works Award, En Foco, 1999

  • Smithsonian National African American Museum of History and Culture

    Philadelphia Museum

    Art Galleries at Black Studies, University of Texas at Austin