Film/Video

Sculpture.Installation.Painting

The Golden Stool
Altar Call
Rootwork Gallery
2017

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Chaos CatcherRootwork Gallery
2017

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Self-Portrait
Center for Afrofuturist Studies

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Spectres

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“The Artist and Archetype are the same body” - Pazzo

Bio
d.cain37@gmail.com

Devin Cain works as Pazzo, a Chicago-based transmedia artist, filmmaker, and theorist whose work traverses film, installation, performance, and critical writing. His practice is driven by a sustained investigation into madness as a site of knowledge and what is lost when interior knowledge is treated as a pathology rather than an archive. He was the co-founder of the Afrosurreal collective du monde noir, a cultural and aesthetic movement with international recognition. His film work is documented in the Senses of Cinema World Poll for Chicago Underground. He has received support from the Joyce Foundation, 3Arts, and the ICI Research Fellowship, and has been a resident at the Center for Afrofuturist Studies. His work has been presented at Poet's House New York and published across the United States, Mexico, and Europe. He is currently building the Museum of Madness, a transmedia institution centered on the history, culture, and epistemology of madness.

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Education
Columbia College Chicago
Cinema Arts, BA
2014

The School for Theater Creators (Padua)
Summer Intensive - Commedia dell’Arte
Facilitation led by Master Teacher Paola Colleto
Mask-Making led by Donato Sartori 
2012

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Exhibitions

2021
MMIRI: Origin Stories / The Reason Why We Hunt (Director) A Tale of Today: Emerging Artists Fellowship Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago, IL Presented by Alexandria Eregbu

MMIRI: Origin Stories L'Autre Expo / Ateliers Médicis, Paris, France Curated by Alexandria Eregbu

2017
Old Black Magic, Chicago Art Department, Chicago, IL, Curated by Ciera McKissick (AMFM)

Altar Call: The Architecture of Black Sacred Space Rootwork Gallery, Chicago, IL, Curated by Tracie D. Hall

2016
To Nothingness with Love Solo Exhibition Public Space One, Iowa City, IA

2015
Eunice Johnson: Fashion's First Afro-Surrealist Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

Bending the Circuit Tertiary Dimensions — Platforms: 10 Years of Chances Dances Sector 2337, Chicago, IL Curated by Alexandria Eregbu

2014
RISK: Empathy, Art, and Social Practice Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL Curated by Neysa Page-Lieberman

2013
Marvelous Freedom: Vigilance of Desire, Revisited Arcade Gallery, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL Curated by Alexandria Eregbu

2012
Filtered Lenses: New International & Experimental Film Projecting the Black Image, Oakland, CA

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Awards, Grants, & HonorsChicago Board of Education, Excellence in Arts Education
2026

DCASE Individual Artist Program Grant
2018

ICI/Joyce Foundation Research Fellowship (with AfroSurreal Chicago / du monde noir)
2018

3Arts Make-A-Wave Award
2017

Independent Curators International Travel Grant
2017

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Press
‘Ateliers Médicis / French Cultural Services, "MMIRI: Origin Stories”
2021

Terremoto Magazine, "Infinite Plenitude", Mexico
2020

Independent Curators International, "AfroSurreal Chicago"
2018

SFMOMA Open Space, "Afrosurreal: The Marvelous and the Invisible" — D. Scot Miller
2017

Senses of Cinema, "2014 World Poll" — Josh B. Mabe, Program Director, Chicago Filmmakers
2015                  

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Persecution + Release
2016

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Persecution + Release Prologue
2016

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The Reason Why We Hunt
2021

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Lilith, 2012
My Escape With Biko The Balloon Deity, 2011

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le masque, 2021

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