Hazlewood is an associate editor for Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art (Duke University). He’s written for many other periodicals, including Flash Art International, ART PAPERS Magazine, and NY Arts Magazine. Since 1984 he has organized numerous curatorial projects for Aljira, such as ’Modern Life’ (co-curated with Okwui Enwezor). Hazlewood’s project on behalf of Aljira, ‘Current Identities, Recent Painting in the United States,’ was the US prize-winning representation at the ‘Bienal International de Pintura,’ Cuenca, Ecuador 1994. As an independent curator, he has organized numerous exhibitions, including those for The Nathan Cummings Foundation, NY; Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Hallwalls, NY; Artists Space, NY; P.S.122, NY. Hazlewood has written catalogues for The Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois; The Ben Shahn Center, William Paterson University, NJ; The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, and many others. His writing has also appeared in periodicals, including ‘Flash Art International,’ Rome; ‘ART PAPERS Magazine,’ Atlanta, and ‘NY Arts Magazine.’ Latest book essays include the upcoming, ‘Terry Adkins: RECITAL, for the Tang Museum and Gallery, Skidmore University, Saratoga, NY.

While Hazlewood’s recent wall works and combined media productions over the last ten years or so have been expansive and inclusive in getting to an affective image, his practice was always grounded in the formal, emotional, and cultural problematics of painting. He says, “I’ve always considered myself basically a painter despite however my art may express itself…whether hovering between two and three dimensions or negotiating a flat digital surface.”

Brooklyn-based Carl E. Hazlewood, born in Guyana, South America, received a BFA with honors from Pratt and an MA from Hunter College, CUNY. Also a curator and writer, he co-founded Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ. Recent honors include Fellowships and residencies from The Brown Foundation Fellows Program at the Dora Maar House (administered by MFAH The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), Ménerbes, France, Summer & Winter 2018; The Bogliasco Foundation (Fellow) Liguria Study Center for the Arts & Humanities, Village of Bogliasco, Italy, Fall 2018; NARS Foundation; the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; Headlands Center for the Arts; Yaddo; Vermont Studio Center; and the MacDowell Colony, among others. A 2017 ‘Tree of Life’ award grantee, his fifty-two feet painting installation, ‘TRAVELER,’ was commissioned by the Knockdown Center, Maspeth, Queens, in 2017. Hazlewood’s work has been seen in the EA/B, NADA, PRIZM, Volta, and Scope Art Fairs. BOMB Magazine, Hyperallergic, and the NY Times are among publications that have written about the artist. Currently, Hazlewood is in a Residency at Sharpe-Walentas in Brooklyn, New York.