Join us at The Last Resort Artist Retreat for our first Focus Residency artist Malcolm Peacock in conversation with Writer/Curator Teri Henderson as they discuss Peacock’s practice, past, present and future. Their time here with us at TLRAR and the benefits of having time to reset. 

Malcolm Peacock (b.1994) is an artist and athlete whose art often utilizes and alternates common physical actions—talking, gazing, braiding, singing, running—to emphasize  the stakes and feelings that accompany being present in proximity to others and to one’s self. His art looks closely at ways that intimacy creates emotional spaces occupied by Black folks. He has participated in residencies at the University of Pennsylvania, St. Roch Community Church, the Joan Mitchell Center, Denniston Hill, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. Peacock has exhibited at Artists Space, New York; Terrault Gallery, Baltimore; the Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University; the Prospect Triennial, New Orleans; MoMA PS1, New York; and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Peacock is the recipient of the 58th Carnegie International Fine Prize and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Roy Lichtenstein Award.

Teri Henderson is a Baltimore-based independent curator and the Arts and Culture Editor of Baltimore Beat. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, The Washington Post, Kinfolk Travel, and numerous other publications. Henderson's previous roles include staff writer for BmoreArt, gallery coordinator for Connect + Collect, and board member of Maryland Volunteer Lawyers for The Arts. Henderson was a 2020 Momus Emerging Critics Resident, 2024 Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellow, and a 2024 Maynard Institute for Journalism Education Fellow. 
 
In 2023, she served as a jury member for the exhibition "Histories Collide: Jackie Milad x Fred Wilson x Nekisha Durrett." In 2024, she was a consulting curator for the exhibition "New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024" at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and curated “all water is a perfect memory” at Curent Space. Most recently she co-curated LAYERS: The Art of Contempraroy Collage at Maryland Institute College of Art. She is the author of Black Collagists: The Book (2021) and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Art+Feminism.

Portrait of Malcolm Peacock/ Photo credit: Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.
Portrait of Teri Henderson/ Photo credit: Micah E. Wood

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