ARTIST BIO
Jazzee Rozier is a 21-year-old Senior attending the Cleveland Institute of Art and expects to obtain their BFA in Drawing (2025). Rozier spends a lot of time thinking about how “family” impedes on their daily life– which honestly really sucks for the most part. They take a lot of inspiration from their surroundings and the people they interact with– taking walks and making music act as key components to this inside creative process. Considering a familial theme and broad ideas of separation/individualism, recollecting memories, and documentation, Rozier implements printmaking, drawing, photography, sewing, and written poetry as chosen techniques to display this angst. As an artist who spends a lot of time practicing existing within communities and actively showing up for them, Rozier showcases a lot of their artworks within various art galleries, exhibitions, and even curating shows for the involvement of others. One way or another, the drive behind their studio practice is strongly rooted in any means of including the world that keeps moving outside of their own personal experience.
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EDUCATION
2025 BFA (pending), Drawing, the Cleveland Institute of Art (expected May 2025), Cleveland, OH
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2024 Drawing Guide, Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Studio Assistant, the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2023 Table Vendor, Coventry Village Juneteenth Celebration, Cleveland, OH
Table Vendor, Larchmere PorchFest, Cleveland, OH
Chalk Mural Artist, Cleveland Museum of Art Chalk Fest, Cleveland, OH
Marketing/Content Editor, Cleveland Museum of Art Chalk Fest, Cleveland, OH
AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS
2021-2025 CIA Gund Family Scholarship, the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
CIA Grant, the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Ohio College Opportunity Grant, the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Joseph and Algesa O’Sickey Scholarship, the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2023-2024 Creativity Works Program, the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
EXHIBITIONS
2025 Back in the Dayz, the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Love, Sex, & the Body, Hildebrandt Artist Collective, Cleveland, OH
Student Independent Exhibition (SIE) ‘79, the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Nature of Healing, Cleveland Botanical Garden, Cleveland, OH
2024 Is It Because I’m Me/BLACK!!?, the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
I Won’t Touch Grass, Negative Space Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Ready, Set, Relay, Progressive Insurance Campus One, Cleveland, OH
A Real Job, the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Sing About Lesbians, I’m Dying of Thirst, LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
2023 Don’t Get Me Started, the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
In Our Skin, the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Street HeART Gala, Human HeART Studios, Cleveland, OH
2021 Art Show at the Gallery, The Selfie Gallery, Cleveland, OH
COMMISSIONS
2024 Animation Mural, WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR QUEERNESS?, LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
2023 Drawing Commission, Portrait of bell hooks, colored pencil drawing (9" x 12") on white
Canson paper, Cleveland, OH
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2025 CAN Journal Winter 2024-2025, Local, National and Student Art Celebrated at CIA; https://canjournal.org/local-national-and-student- art-celebrated-at-cia/
2024 Cleveland Institute of Art, Ctrl + S Lit Magazine
Cleveland Institute of Art press release, Sing About Lesbians I’m Dying of Thirst; https://www.cia.edu/exhibitions/sing-about-lesbians-im-dying-of-thirst/
2023 Cleveland Institute of Art, Link Summer 2023: Building Community, June 9, 2023; https://www.cia.edu/files/newsletters/22-23summerlinkmagazinenocrop.pdf